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Educating Medical Students in Geriatric Medicine: the Christchurch Experience
Author(s) -
Wilkinson T.J.,
Sainsbury R
Publication year - 1998
Publication title -
australasian journal on ageing
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.63
H-Index - 34
eISSN - 1741-6612
pISSN - 1440-6381
DOI - 10.1111/j.1741-6612.1998.tb00050.x
Subject(s) - geriatrics , intervention (counseling) , context (archaeology) , medicine , medical education , value (mathematics) , nursing , psychology , family medicine , psychiatry , paleontology , machine learning , computer science , biology
. A five week program in geriatric medicine for fourth (first clinical) year medical students is described which is not only regarded as valuable by the students but has been shown to result in lasting beneficial effects on attitudes to the elderly. The program structure differs from some other courses in geriatric medicine. Possible reasons for its value and effectiveness include (1) teaching by committed and specialised staff, (2) seeing the elderly within a therapeutic environment which includes sufficient time for students to see the benefits of intervention, (3) the involvement of allied health professionals, (4) small group and patient based teaching and (5) a community focus which includes seeing people in their own homes and which emphasises the importance of the social context in a person's illness.