title: Aging, the Medical Subspecialties, and Career Development: Where We Were, Where We Are Going.
abstract: Historically, the medical subspecialties have not focused on the needs of older adults. This has changed with the implementation of initiatives to integrate geriatrics and aging research into the medical and surgical subspecialties and with the establishment of a home for internal medicine specialists within the annual American Geriatrics Society (AGS) meeting. With the support of AGS, other professional societies, philanthropies, and federal agencies, efforts to integrate geriatrics into the medical and surgical subspecialties have focused largely on training the next generation of physicians and researchers. They have engaged several subspecialties, which have followed parallel paths in integrating geriatrics and aging research. As a result of these combined efforts, there has been enormous progress in the integration of geriatrics and aging research into the medical and surgical subspecialties, and topics once considered to be geriatric concerns are becoming mainstream in medicine, but this integration remains a work in progress and will need to adapt to changes associated with healthcare reform.
authors.affiliation: Cancer and Aging Research Program, City of Hope National Medical Center, Duarte, California.
authors.forename: Arti
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Hurria
authors.affiliation: School of Medicine, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, North Carolina.
authors.forename: Kevin P
authors.initials: KP
authors.lastname: High
authors.affiliation: University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan.
authors.forename: Lona
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Mody
authors.affiliation: Association of Specialty Professors, Alexandria, Virginia.
authors.forename: Frances
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: McFarland Horne
authors.affiliation: John A. Hartford Foundation, New York, New York.
authors.forename: Marcus
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Escobedo
authors.affiliation: University of Michigan Health System, Ann Arbor, Michigan.
authors.forename: Jeffrey
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Halter
authors.affiliation: School of Medicine, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, North Carolina.
authors.forename: William
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Hazzard
authors.affiliation: Duke University, Durham, North Carolina.|Geriatric Research Education and Clinical Center, Durham Veterans Affairs, Durham, North Carolina.
authors.forename: Kenneth
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Schmader
authors.affiliation: Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, North Carolina.
authors.forename: Heidi
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Klepin
authors.affiliation: University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California.
authors.forename: Sei
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Lee
authors.affiliation: University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas.
authors.forename: Una E
authors.initials: UE
authors.lastname: Makris
authors.affiliation: Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri.
authors.forename: Michael W
authors.initials: MW
authors.lastname: Rich
authors.affiliation: Wichita State University, Wichita, Kansas.
authors.forename: Stephanie
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Rogers
authors.affiliation: University of Michigan Health System, Ann Arbor, Michigan.
authors.forename: Jocelyn
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Wiggins
authors.affiliation: John A. Hartford Foundation, New York, New York.
authors.forename: Rachael
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Watman
authors.affiliation: Cancer and Aging Research Program, City of Hope National Medical Center, Duarte, California.
authors.forename: Jennifer
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Choi
authors.affiliation: American Geriatrics Society, New York, New York.
authors.forename: Nancy
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Lundebjerg
authors.affiliation: National Institute on Aging, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland.
authors.forename: Susan
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Zieman
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D035843:Biomedical Research / Q000639:trends*; D002322:Career Mobility; D005853:Geriatrics / Q000193:education* / Q000639:trends*; D006801:Humans; D008511:Medicine / Q000639:trends*; D012955:Societies, Medical; D014481:United States
keywords: aging research; geriatrics; medical subspecialties