Books for Geriatrics Rotation

[Pure Anergy]

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Did any of you have to do a geriatrics rotation? What book did you use? It doesn't seem like most of the IM or FM books have much specifically on geriatrics.

 

[noentiendo]

I've done 3 week of dedicated geriatrics and never read anything except for handouts they gave us. I can't imagine actually buying a book for one of these rotations.

 

[lilnoelle]

I think it depends a little bit on what field you intend to go into. If your interested in fields that will see a lot of elderly adults (I can't think of many fields that don't), you might want to have a book for reference.

I'm trying to make the same decision.... I'm looking at Essentials of Clinical Geriatrics, Current Geriatric Diagnosis & Treatment, Primary Care Geriatrics, or I may just stick with Geriatrics at your Fingertips (Given to me by the school). I'm working through Geriatrics at your Fingertips, to get an idea if its what I'm going to stick with.... and I'm thinking its probably good enough.

I'm thinking I'll go into primary care - and I have a feeling it'll be pretty important for me to learn how to treat geriatric patients and have some sort of reference book to look at later.

 

[CCLCMer]

Has anyone used the Little Black Book of Geriatrics? I'd like some kind of concise reference book, and it seems like it would be a good, reasonably priced pocket book. The one review on Amazon gave it five stars. We have a four week geriatrics rotation, and I agree with lilnoelle that geriatrics is going to come up in just about every specialty except maybe path and peds. Would appreciate any input if someone on SDN has used this book.

 

[phoenix0610]

I'll second the vote for Essentials of Clinical Geriatrics (Kane, Ouslander, and Abrass). It was given to me during a class I was taking and I've referred back to it many times.

 

[CCLCMer]

I wound up going with Case Studies in Geriatric Medicine by Judith Ahronheim and a bunch of other people. It's fairly short (280 pages) and it's case-based, which I like better than a traditional textbook or outline format. I'm not doing geriatrics until November, but I'll try to remember to come back and post my opinion after I read it.

 

[Pure Anergy]

Thanks for the suggestions.