Geriatrics

Education & Training – Interns and Residents

The Inpatient Times

The Inpatient Times: All the news that makes you more fit to treat. A publication of the Hospital Medicine Unit and the Department of Medicine.

The following articles, written by Section of Geriatrics fellows have been published in The Inpatient Times. (http://www.bumc.bu.edu/gim/clinical-units/hmu/inpatient-times-archives/)

• Transitions of Care: How to Write a "Good" Discharge Summary by Kim Dodd, MD (PDF)
  
  
• Dysphagia in the Elderly by Rebecca Stone, MD (PDF)
  
  
• Communication - a key to great care: an illustrative case by Dan Oates, MD (PDF)
  
  
• Establishing Goals of Care by Gurmohan Syali, MD (PDF)
  
  
• Medicare Part D: Implications for Inpatient Care by David Kornetsky (PDF)
  
  
• House Call Anyone? by Clare Wohlgemuth, APRN, BC (PDF)
  
  
• Pain Management at the End of Life in the Elderly by Winnie Suen, MD
  
  
• Sleepless On Firm C by Jon Croopnick, MD and Lisa Caruso, MD, MPH (PDF)
  
  
• The Inpatient Fall: Not just an Incident Report by Erica Bernstein, MD, MPH (PDF) 
  
• AMS: What is It? Delirium in the Elderly by Serena Chao, MD, MSc (PDF)
  
  
• Tying Down the Elderly VS Restraint-Free Care by Ora Krairit, MD (PDF)
  
  
• The Face of HIV is Getting Gray Hair by Cindy Cullinane, MD (PDF)
  
  
• For the Intern, the Death Certificate Need Not Be Worse Than Death Itself by Dan Oates, MD, MSc (PDF)