title: Three years of a required geriatrics module for third-year medical students.
abstract: The Parker Jewish Geriatric Institute, a teaching nursing home at which an accredited internal medicine geriatrics fellowship is based, co-developed with the Department of Family Practice of the medical school at the State University of New York at Stony Brook a mandatory geriatrics module for third-year medical students. The module's implementation over a three-year period (1985-1987) with 278 medical students is described. The authors conclude that if time and effort are given to the development of a geriatrics curriculum, and if appropriate instructors are chosen, then learning geriatrics in long-term-care settings can be as rewarding and exciting an experience for medical students as their experiences in other clinical settings, even when that learning is required.
authors.affiliation: Village Nursing Home, New York, NY 10014.
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Wener
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Foley
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Jaffe
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D003479:Curriculum; D004504:Education, Medical, Undergraduate; D005853:Geriatrics / Q000193:education*; D006801:Humans; D009518:New York; D009735:Nursing Homes; D015397:Program Evaluation; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires