Arm-twisting medical schools for core geriatric training

Training in geriatric medicine in UK undergraduate medical schools.

Survey of training in geriatric medicine in UK undergraduate medical schools.

SIR—The view that the study of human ageing and healthcare needs of older people should form part of the undergraduate medical curriculum is supported by the World Health Organization, the Royal College of Physicians of London and the General Medical Council [1–3]. Surveys in the 1980s showed that geriatric medicine was being taught in almost all medical schools, most commonly by a compulsory a...

Geriatric medical education and training in the United States.

Medical education in geriatrics is an important requirement to ready the profession to provide comprehensive health care to the world's and also Taiwan's aging population. The predoctoral curricula and postdoctoral training programs in the United States were developed and supported by government agencies and professional education societies. Geriatric medical education in American medical schoo...

Should medical schools be schools for virtue?

I n the Republic , Plato recounts the myth of Gyges, who wore a ring that allowed him to become invisible simply by turning the ring around his finger. 1 Gyges misused the ring’s powers to seduce the wife of the king, kill him, and take over the country. The lesson that Plato drew from this myth was that the person of true virtue is the one who can be trusted to do the right thing, even when no...

Training on handover of patient care within UK medical schools

BACKGROUND Much evidence exists to demonstrate that poor handover can directly impact patient safety. There have been calls for formal education on handover, but evidence to guide intervention design and implementation is limited. It is unclear how undergraduate medical schools are tackling this issue and what barrier or facilitators exist to handover education. We set out to determine curricul...