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| What should we be teaching medical students about dementia? | | Author(s) | Ellen Tullo, Louise Allan |
| Journal title | International Psychogeriatrics, vol 23, no 7, September 2011 |
| Pages | pp 1044-1050 |
| Source | http://www.journals.cambridge.org/ipg |
| Keywords | Dementia ; Doctors ; Teaching hospitals ; Training [welfare work]. |
| Annotation | There is concern that many doctors do not have adequate knowledge or skills to deliver appropriate dementia care for patients in hospital or community settings. The aim of this review was to draw together recommendations for medical education on dementia and empirical research on teaching interventions concerning dementia in order to assess the current provision of training using the UK model as an example. Within the UK, national guidelines recommend that dementia-specific education should be available to trainees in the undergraduate and postgraduate environment. A sample of undergraduate curricula shows considerable variation in the delivery of teaching about dementia. `Non-specialist' postgraduate curricula make reference to care of patients with confusion, but do not always include learning outcomes specific to cognitive impairment or dementia. Teaching interventions trialled in the postgraduate environment provide encouraging qualitative feedback from participants, but do not consistently demonstrate improvement in participants' knowledge, skills or attitudes. Concludes that there is a pressing need to improve undergraduate medical education on dementia in order to help future doctors obtain the ability to provide competent care for patients. (JL). |
| Accession Number | CPA-110913015 A |
| Classmark | EA: QT2: V6: QW |
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