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Assessing the Benefits of a Geropsychiatric Home-Visit Program for Medical Students
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Roane, David M.; Tucker, Jennifer; Eisenstadt, Ellen; Gomez, Maria; Kennedy, Gary J. – Academic Psychiatry, 2012
Objective: Authors assessed the benefit of including medical students on geropsychiatric home-visits. Method: Medical students, during their psychiatry clerkship, were assigned to a home-visit group (N=43) or control group (N=81). Home-visit participants attended the initial visit of a home-bound geriatric patient. The Maxwell-Sullivan Attitude…
Descriptors: Control Groups, Medical Students, Student Attitudes, Home Visits
First Year Medical Students' Knowledge, Attitudes, and Interest in Geriatric Medicine
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Lu, Wei-Hsin; Hoffman, Kimberly G.; Hosokawa, Michael C.; Gray, M. Peggy; Zweig, Steven C. – Educational Gerontology, 2010
The purpose of this study was to examine the impact of an extracurricular geriatric program on medical students' knowledge of, and attitudes toward, the elderly and their interest in studying geriatric medicine. The participants were first-year medical students (n = 137) who joined the Senior Teacher Education Partnership (STEP) program that…
Descriptors: Medical Education, Medical Students, Geriatrics, College Freshmen
The Importance of "High Valence" Events in a Successful Program for Teaching Geriatrics to Medical Students
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Boling, Peter A.; Willett, Rita M.; Gentili, Angela; Abbey, Linda J.; Lawson, Sonya R.; Schlesinger, Jeanne B.; Meyers, Elizabeth M. – Gerontology & Geriatrics Education, 2008
Virginia Commonwealth University developed an enhanced medical student geriattic curriculum that includes required home visits and nursing home visits for second year students (180 per year), an annual Forum on Aging for all first and second year students, and small group exercises. We added 30 hours of basic science material to pre-clinical…
Descriptors: Nursing Homes, Health Facilities, Medical Students, Home Visits
The Impact of Curricular Changes on the Geriatrics Knowledge, Attitudes and Skills of Medical Students
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Nagoshi, Michael H.; Tanabe, Marianne K. G.; Sakai, Damon H.; Masaki, Kamal H.; Kasuya, Richard T.; Blanchette, Patricia L. – Gerontology & Geriatrics Education, 2008
We redesigned our medical school's Problem-Based Learning (PBL) curriculum to include a substantial increase in required geriatrics content. Innovations included new PBL health care problems and standardized patients (SPs) throughout the first three years and a new required four-week, fourth-year rotation. We used data from the AAMC Medical School…
Descriptors: Medical Education, Medical Students, Educational Objectives, Outcomes of Education
Attitudes of Students in Health Professions toward Caring for Older People: Needed Curricula Revisions in Nigeria
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Fajemilehin, Boluwaji – Educational Gerontology, 2004
This descriptive study examined the conceptions and misconceptions students in health professions have regarding older people. The research was conducted in Ile-Ife, Nigeria. The findings revealed that students in health professions, as a whole, demonstrated a high degree of stereotypic misconceptions and poor knowledge about aging and older…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Misconceptions, Health Occupations, Geriatrics
The Medical College of Wisconsin Senior Mentor Program: Experience of a Lifetime
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Bates, Tovah; Cohan, Mary; Bragg, Dawn S.; Bedinghaus, Joan – Gerontology & Geriatrics Education, 2006
The Medical College of Wisconsin (MCW) Senior Mentor Program (SMP) has been offered to a small group of first and second year medical students as a course alternative to the traditional physician mentor program. The program links students with healthy older adult mentors and includes mentor/student visits, didactic sessions, written assignments,…
Descriptors: Medical Education, Medical Students, Mentors, Focus Groups
Responses of Fourth-Year Medical Students to a Required Clerkship in Geriatrics.
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Murden, Robert A.; And Others – Journal of Medical Education, 1986
Students at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine of the City University of New York taking a required clinical clerkship in geriatrics were surveyed before and after the clerkship on their knowledge of geriatrics, attitudes toward the elderly, and evaluation of the rotation. (Author/MLW)
Descriptors: Clinical Experience, Curriculum Development, Geriatrics, Higher Education