Hospital to Home
- 1 August 2003
- journal article
- case report
- Published by Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) in Academic Medicine
- Vol. 78 (8), 793-797
- https://doi.org/10.1097/00001888-200308000-00009
Abstract
Physicians-in-training discharge many older patients from the hospital, but few have any knowledge of what happens to the patients they send home, of how discharge plans are applied, or of the difficulties patients and their families face. The authors describe a pilot program, Hospital to Home, at the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry's internal medicine residency program, which uses home visits as an educational tool in geriatrics training. The program was begun in July 2001, and 23 residents have participated. Home visits expose residents in their first-year geriatrics rotation to the elements and outcomes of discharge planning and create a heightened awareness of the needs of older persons recently discharged from the hospital. The home visits are videotaped, and the residents present a videoconference based on the visits, which are attended by internal medicine residents, family medicine residents, and medical students. The authors describe the three-part Hospital to Home program, three vignettes that highlight learning experiences, and the residents' feedback about the experience and the use of audiovisual recording for education.Keywords
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