Geriatrics: Specialty, Subspecialty, or Supraspecialty?

Dermatology is a specialty; dermatology is not a subspecialty.

Introduction to the geriatrics-for-specialists initiative: geriatrics specialty care at the tipping point.

It is a special pleasure for me to be invited to speak to you tonight. You represent seven crucial specialties of surgery and three closely related medical specialties. I represent the medical specialty of geriatrics, I have also been heavily involved in the Geriatrics-for-Specialists Initiative (GSI) project since 1995, and I have an additional very personal qualification for being hereFI am i...

Bringing geriatrics into oncology or also oncology into geriatrics?

letters to the editor Bringing geriatrics into oncology or also oncology into geriatrics? We read with interest the article of Sifer-Rivière et al. [1] on the the role and status of geriatricians in a Pilot Geriatric Oncology Program that appeared in the October issue of this year. The authors' that considerations derive from the work carried out in one of the Pilot Oncogeriatric Coordination U...

Geriatrics attitudes and knowledge among surgical and medical subspecialty house officers.

OBJECTIVES To examine geriatrics knowledge and attitudes of non-primary care house officers (HOs) before and after a multidisciplinary faculty development program. DESIGN Serial cross-sectional surveys. PARTICIPANTS HOs. SETTING A large midwestern academic medical center. INTERVENTION Faculty from seven surgical and six medical subspecialties participated in weekly seminars for 9 months...

Geriatrics / Gériatrie Why Geriatrics ?

Why geriatric medicine ? Many have asked this question... residents considering specialization; specialists reluctant to acknowledge change in their aging patients; and anxious patients narrowly defining geriatric medicine as end-of-life care. All have wondered how caring for older patients differs from that of younger adults. The difference, in fact, is immense. The transition from a disease-f...