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Evaluating geriatrics in the medical school curriculum: using student journals.
“I really enjoy the conversations I have with the elderly as part of the Doctoring course, but my comfort in interacting with them as a health care provider is still low...the more exposure I get to the elderly, however, the less averse the idea of working with older patients becomes...the most significant change in my thinking about the elderly was the acknowledgement of a couple of misconcept...
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PURPOSE OF THE STUDY The Alpert Medical School of Brown University began to integrate geriatrics content into all preclerkship courses and key clerkship cases as part of a major medical school curriculum redesign in 2006. This study evaluates students' responses to geriatrics integration within the curriculum using journals kept by volunteer preclerkship and clerkship students between 2007 and ...
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INTRODUCTION in 2008, the British Geriatrics Society (BGS) developed the Recommended Undergraduate Curriculum in Geriatric Medicine. This was subsequently mapped to the second edition of Tomorrows' Doctors (TD2, 2003). Following the publication of the third edition of Tomorrow's Doctors in 2009 (TD3), the mapping exercise was repeated to verify the extent to which the updated General Medical Co...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Academic Medicine
سال: 1996
ISSN: 1040-2446
DOI: 10.1097/00001888-199611000-00009