[Why do medical students not have a geriatrics textbook?].
To study the opinions of medical students on textbooks of geriatrics, we made a questionnaire for 5th-year medical students. All students had their own textbook (s) of internal medicine, and nearly half of the students had textbook (s) of physical examination. However, only 3.6% of students had their own textbook of geriatrics. The reasons for not having a textbook of geriatrics were as follows: 1) no understanding which textbook is better (59.1%), 2) no need to have a textbook (15.5%), 3) no appropriate textbooks (4.1%), and 4) others (17.6%). The most important point for choosing a textbook was as follows: 1) information from friends or seniors (38.9%), 2) looking by oneself (47.7%), 3) recommendation of a teacher (9.8%), and 4) others (3.6%).
Naito
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Department of Geriatrics, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine.
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Iguchi
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D000328:Adult; D001294:Attitude to Health; D005853:Geriatrics; D006801:Humans; D013337:Students, Medical / Q000523:psychology*; D013782:Textbooks as Topic