Medical Students' Progress in Detecting and Interpreting Visual and Auditory Clinical Findings.

Detection of visual and auditory clinical findings is part of medical students' core clinical performance abilities that a medical education curriculum should teach, assess, and remediate. However, there is a limited understanding of how students develop these skills. While training physical exam technical skills has received significant attention and emphasis, teaching and assessing medical students' ability to detect and interpret visual and auditory clinical findings skills has been less systematic.

Aging Couple Across the Curriculum.

Aging Couple Across the Curriculum is a unique program designed around a couple who "age" a decade with each year of medical school. In these half-day sessions, students encounter the aging couple through a standardized patient experience. Interactive breakout sessions conducted by multidisciplinary professionals enhance student learning and appreciation of the contributions of the team of professionals.

The physician's role in assessing and counseling aging drivers: a training session for undergraduate medical students.

The critical need for physicians to become entrenched in the issues of older drivers and public safety is the focus of a training initiative developed as a component of an innovative geriatrics curriculum, Aging (Couple) Across the Curriculum. As the number of aging drivers in the United States rises, physicians can play an important role in helping older patients continue safe driving practices and in counseling those who need to cease driving. This article describes an inventive course designed to sensitize medical students to the many complex issues entangled in driving and aging and to prepare them to competently and compassionately assess and counsel older drivers.

A simulated couple aging across the four years of medical school.

Background: The medical students of today will deliver health care to an ever-increasing aging population. Regardless of specialties, physicians must view older patients holistically with attention to medical, psychosocial, and family issues and functional status.

Description: This program was designed around a couple who ages from 60 to 90 over the 4 years of medical school.