The department of Rehabilitation and Geriatric Medicine participates in medical students teaching at various stages:
1. Teaching physical examination to 4th year students in the department of Geriatric Medicine.
2. Teaching 4th year medical students as part of the Problem Based Learning (PBL) course.
3. Teaching Clinical Geriatrics to 5th year medical students as a compulsory clerckship. The teaching takes place at the various divisions of the department including the department of Geriatric Rehabilitation, the Geriatric Emergency Department, The “Hod Adomim” Geriatric Center, The Ina and Jack Kay Center for Supportive Care, the Neurogeriatric and Memory Outpatient Clinic, the Home Hospitalization Program of the Clalit Sick Fund and the Geriatric Assessment Unit of the Clalit Sick Fund.
The teaching is carried out by a faculty of more than 20 board certified geriatricians and residents in geriatric medicine and includes the following.
4. Teaching in physical medicine and rehabilitation is provided to fifth year medical students as part of their clerckships in orthopedic surgery and neurology, respectively.
Postgraduate Training
Programs for postgraduate training of resident physicians are maintained in either rehabilitation or geriatric medicine:
1. In geriatric medicine a residency program can commence immediately following completion of board certification in internal medicine or family medicine as a subspecialty. The length of this program is two years.
2. A second option for a residency program in geriatric medicine is starting upon completion of the first part of board examination in internal medicine. The length of this program is two and a half years (including 6 months of basic research).
3. A third option for a residency program in geriatric medicine is upon graduation from medical school and consists of four and a half years as follows: 2 years in a department of internal medicine, 2 years in a department of geriatric medicine, 6 months of basic research.
The clinical experience and education residents are exposed to in the department of rehabilitation and geriatric medicine at Hadassah University Hospital at Mount Scopus is very wide and includes all the services available in the department including geriatric emergency department, acute geriatric care, subacute geriatric care, long term care, complex skilled nursing care, geriatric rehabilitation, palliative care, outpatient clinics, comprehensive geriatric assessment unit and consultation services.
Academic teaching is carried out by a large faculty of leading geriatricians and researches in gerontology and geriatrics.