EAN: 9783319619965

PRACTICAL ISSUES IN GERIATRICS LEARNING GERIA...

This textbook presents hands-on training material for medical students. The style reflects the
need for practice-based teaching with a modern edge in daily clinical routine  accordingly  it
also employs online material and pocket cards. Each chapter begins with specific learning
objectives  which are cross-referenced with the European curriculum for undergraduate medical
education released by the European Union of Medical Specialists (UEMS) together with the
European Union Geriatric Medicine Society (EUGMS)  as well as the minimum geriatric competences
for medical students established by the American Geriatrics Society (AGS). World-renowned
European experts in practicing and teaching the interdisciplinary field of Geriatrics
contributed to this work  with the aim of offering the new generation of health professionals a
global perspective on one of the greatest public health challenges of our time: the management
of the steadily increasing number of older  multimorbid  and vulnerable persons. The major
strength of this book - published under the auspices of the EUGMS - is its pragmatic 
goal-oriented approach  which makes it suitable for bedside learning and patient-centered
medicine  further  all of the chapters are firmly based on the pillars of the ageing process in
all of its biological aspects  helping readers understand the pathophysiology of and rationale
behind interventions for the main geriatric syndromes and disorders.

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