Medical Specialties - Geriatric Medicine (4 Dec 2024)
This week, Dr Marilena Giannoudi focuses on the geriatric career path with Dr Kat Ralston.
This week, Dr Marilena Giannoudi focuses on the geriatric career path with Dr Kat Ralston. This episode covers the day-to-day as well as the advantages, challenges, and the pathway to this profession. Dr Ralston provides many resources to inform your journey into geriatric medicine and discusses a few interesting cases she has encountered.
Dr Kat Ralston is a geriatric medicine registrar in Edinburgh. She is also the Education Co-Vice Chair and the joint Podcast Lead for the RCPE Trainee & Members' Committee (T&MC).
Dr Marilena Giannoudi is a cardiology registrar based in Leeds. She is Co-Chair of the Trainees and Members’ Committee, a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, and is currently undertaking a PhD.
Useful Links
Physician Higher Specialty Training Recruitment
Silver Book II Geriatric Syndromes (British Geriatrics Society)
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