#GeriatricMedicine Specialty Doctor #SAS | Clinical Lecturer in #AgeingEducation at Unis of Bristol and Zimbabwe | Soprano 💁🏻♀️ | Same handle on BSky/Insta
Bristol, UK
Joined July 2012
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Dr Grace Pearson (she/her) retweeted
The BGS Medical Student Subgroup has published their 1st paper in the BMJ. Congratulations on this achievement! It how student-led geriatric medicine societies are helping to strengthen interest and leadership in ageing medicine at undergraduate level. buff.ly/biqdfAI
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I love this meeting every time @GeriSoc - so much to learn, old friends, new friends, pragmatic optimism, hard science, evidence and making things better for #OlderPeople and for all of us ❤️👏❤️👏❤️👏#BGSconf
Dr Grace Pearson (she/her) retweeted
We cannot care for an ageing population with an under-educated workforce.
UK medical students get only ~4 weeks of geriatrics teaching.
The emerging role of geriatric student-led societies.
@GeriSoc @RCPhysicians
With an ageing population, older adults are the most frequent users of health and social care services, yet geriatric medicine remains under-represented in many medical school curriculums.
How could geriatric medicine student societies help? @BMJStudent
bmj.com/content/391/bmj.r115…
Dr Grace Pearson (she/her) retweeted
With an ageing population, older adults are the most frequent users of health and social care services, yet geriatric medicine remains under-represented in many medical school curriculums.
How could geriatric medicine student societies help? @BMJStudent
bmj.com/content/391/bmj.r115…
Dr Grace Pearson (she/her) retweeted
Delighted to share our national survey of ageing and geriatrics education in UK Pharmacy. Please share widely @rpharms @RPS_Wales @RPSScotland @davidwebb_1 @alisonstrath @StrathAgeing
@Tagrimes @KCL_Pharmacy
HAPPY INTERNATIONAL DAY OF OLDER PERSONS 🎉
To celebrate, we're launching our national survey of ageing and geriatrics teaching in UK Pharmacy MPharm degrees 🎓
If you, or someone you know, is involved with teaching pharmacists, please respond & share! 🙏🏻
forms.office.com/e/cRPCQn6YA…
Dr Grace Pearson (she/her) retweeted
Introducing the first member of the #OPERA2025 shortlist, @JenMStevenson, whose research focuses on the challenge of an ageing population
Read the full profile here: pharmaceutical-journal.com/a…
The overall winner will be announced on Monday 30 June 2025 🏆
Dr Grace Pearson (she/her) retweeted
🏅 AWARD WINNERS🏅
For our final highlight, we are delighted to share the award winners of TASME 2025.
It was a tough decision due to the high quality of all the presentations. Huge congratulations to all winners!
#TASME #MedEd #Conference #Presentation #Awards
Dr Grace Pearson (she/her) retweeted
Importance of value-based rather than procedure-based advanced care planning in dementia patients and encouraging supported decision making
@Elissa_Campbell #ANZSGM2025 #IlluminatingDementia
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Innovative & future approaches to teaching from the panel - involve the students, patient led teachings, integrating humanities, interdisciplinary collaboration & teaching in nursing home to name a few #ANZSGM2025 #GeriatricMedicine @GraceInvaders @andyteodorczuk @JThillainadesan
Dr Grace Pearson (she/her) retweeted
🌟 It's here! The 2025 ANZSGM Annual Scientific Meeting is officially underway in Sydney 🇦🇺
This year, we’re Illuminating Dementia – from care to cure 🧠💡 #ANZSGM2025 #IlluminatingDementia #GeriatricMedicine #DementiaCare #FromCareToCure
Dr Grace Pearson (she/her) retweeted
Next up Simon Grof @jewishcarevic @easternhealthau shares on co-designed placement models for allied health students in aged care: stakeholder interviews with residents, staff & students. Setting expectations & active supervision including onsite mentors was key. #ANZSGM2025
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It's #ChooseGeriatrics week! All week, we'll be sharing blogs and videos from our members explaining why they #ChooseGeriatrics. It’s great to hear such inspiring stories, and hopefully, they will encourage more people to follow in their footsteps when choosing their specialty.
Dr Grace Pearson (she/her) retweeted
At the recent outreach event @lucypgeridoc spoke about how we explain our decisions to de-prescribe medications to older patients, to make it clear that it is not a reflection of their value, and instead a reflection of the medication's value for them.
Dr Grace Pearson (she/her) retweeted
Yey! What does the next generation of professionals working with #OlderPeople need to know? Come and tell us!
A reminder about our first #outreach workshop, bringing together the public, health professions staff and students, to discuss the future of #ageing education in healthcare 🥳 Featuring stories, readings, and Q+A with the marvellous
@lucypgeridoc 🌟🐘
Dr Grace Pearson (she/her) retweeted
We're hosting our first AMRG academic writing day today! We've started the day off with some clear goals, and have a schedule planned of 4 (silent!) working blocks with built in breaks ! We're hoping that the group accountability and dedicated time will pay off in productivity!
Dr Grace Pearson (she/her) retweeted
Being based at @BristolUni we were so delighted to read that in the recently published @timeshighered world university rankings, Bristol Medical School has been ranked first for achieving the highest score globally for research quality in clinical subjects! Congratulations!
Dr Grace Pearson (she/her) retweeted
Day 6 is by AMRG Alumni @GraceInvaders who undertook her PhD within the group supervised by @DrEmHenderson, about geriatric medical education: research-information.bris.ac…
Dr Grace Pearson (she/her) retweeted
Do you love working in older people's healthcare? Then why not become a BGS #ChooseGeriatrics ambassador and harness your enthusiasm to inspire other professionals to join the specialty. bgs.org.uk/become-an-ambassa…
