This manual is intended to acquaint the faculty of physician assistant (PA) training programs with a model geriatric clerkship and to assist them in the process in implementing a similar clerkship. A detailed outline of the curriculum goals of a geriatric clerkship is included. The next section contains curriculum units on the following topics: communication skills, evaluation of health status, management of common health problems in noninstitutional elderly persons, health promotion/disease prevention, family and elder counseling, and long-term care issues. Suggested criteria for establishing a clerkship are enumerated. The following implementation steps are discussed: obtaining administrative support; adapting the model clerkship to the individual clerkship structure of a given program; implementing a preclerkship geriatric curriculum; generating faculty support for the clerkship plan; locating, selecting, and negotiating with appropriate training sites; selecting clinic preceptors and providing faculty development as necessary; selecting or developing written and audiovisual training materials and evaluation forms; developing a learning experience schedule; recruiting and scheduling individual students; following students and evaluating their progress; and evaluating the clerkship program. (Ten appendixes include an annotated bibliography on the role of PAs in geriatric medicine, an abstract of Medicare provisions for reimbursement of PAs, lists of geriatric care centers, bibliographies of materials of geriatrics, lists of facilities providing geriatric care, and answers to the postassessment test.) (MN)