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The geriatric imperative
— educating physicians to care for an aging population | | Author(s) | Donna M Zulman, Carroll L Estes |
| Journal title | Gerontology & Geriatrics Education, vol 23, no 3, 2003 |
| Pages | pp 1-18 |
| Source | http://www.tandfonline.com |
| Keywords | General practitioners ; Ageing process ; Courses ; Teaching hospitals ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | America's physicians are ill-prepared for the surge in numbers of geriatric patients that will overwhelm the medical system in the near future. The combination of inadequate undergraduate medical training in geriatrics, insufficient numbers of geriatric faculty to serve as mentors, and lack of incentives for medical students considering geriatrics as a field have resulted in graduate geriatric positions going unfilled. This paper discusses the growing need for comprehensive geriatric training. It presents training initiatives that have been funded at federal and state levels, as well as those by private foundations. Recommendations focus on enhancing the attractiveness of geriatrics, expanding the geriatric curriculum, in undergraduate medical education, increasing clinical exposure to older patients in graduate medical education, expanding career development opportunities for faculty in geriatrics, expanding funding for training and research, and reforming Medicare's payment system. (KJ/RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-030813209 A |
| Classmark | QT6: BG: VE: V6: 7T |
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