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First year medical student attitudes toward the elderly
— a comparison of the years 1986, 1991 and 1994 | | Author(s) | Barbara E Cammer Paris, Gabriel Gold, Brian Taylor |
| Journal title | Gerontology & Geriatrics Education, vol 18, no 1, 1997 |
| Pages | pp 13-22 |
| Source | http://www.tandfonline.com |
| Keywords | Students ; Teaching hospitals ; Attitudes to the old of general public ; Social trends ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | First year US medical students entered medical school with essentially neutral attitudes towards older people in 1986 and 1994, as measured by an Aging Semantic Differential; the class of 1991 entered with significantly poorer attitudes. For all three classes, student's gender, previous exposure to a nursing home or undergraduate curriculum in geriatrics prior to medical school did not affect attitudes at entry into medical school. Older students and those having experience of older people had more positive attitudes. Despite growth of the older population and increased attention given to this group in the last ten years, medical students' attitudes toward older people did not improve. Since care of older people will represent a significant proportion of current trainees' future practices, and societal changes appear to have insignificant impact on student attitudes toward older people, medical schools need to become more proactive in developing curricula to improve such attitudes. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-980724006 A |
| Classmark | XN: V6: TOB: TM3: 7T |
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