Department of Geriatrics and FHU CARTAGE, CHU de Nancy and INSERM 1116, Université de Lorraine, Nancy, France Department of Medicine Imperial College, London, UK Department of Geriatrics, Ghent University Hospital, and Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium Geriatric Cardiology and Medicine, University of Florence and Azienda Ospedaliero Universitaria Careggi, Italy Clinica Medica, Department of Clin...

RECRUITMENT TO RESEARCH The actual number of trainees in geriatrics research fellowship programs is unknown, However, for 1992-1993, the Manpower Study counted 240 geriatrics fellows, with 24 in the third year and 7 in the fourth year of training; 70-80% of trainees continue into the second year of training and 25-30% into the third year [2]. Fellowship programs should strive to recruit and tra...

CANADIAN GERIATRICS JOURNAL, VOLUME 19, ISSUE 4, DECEMBER 2016 The editorial board of the Canadian Geriatrics Journal would like to present the last issue of 2016, addressing a wide variety of geriatric and gerontological topics. Dr. David Hogan and Dr. Montero-Odasso(1) call on the Canadian Geriatrics Society to develop a Falls and Fractures Special Interest Group, which is an attempt to syste...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES We compared findings from this 2004 survey with our 2001 survey to determine progress in family medicine residency programs' efforts to better train residents to care for America's aging population. METHODS A survey was mailed and made available on-line to all 470 family medicine residency directors in the United States. RESULTS The response rate was 71%. Ninety-si...

OBJECTIVE This study aims to describe the profile of medical schools that introduced courses on Geriatrics and Elderly Health or Aging in their curriculum, and compare such information with the age distribution and health epidemiological data of the Brazilian population, using data until the year of 2013. METHODS 180 universities offering medical undergraduate courses and registered with the ...

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...