A User's Guide to Enhancing Geriatrics in an Undergraduate Medical School Curriculum: The Ten-Step Model to Winning the "Geriatric Game"

Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

Volumn 52, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 814-821

  Medina Walpole, Annette ^a,b   Clark, Nancy S ^a   Heppard, Brian ^a   Dannefer, Elaine ^a   Hall, William ^a   McCann, Robert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND DENTISTRY   (United States)

^b Monroe Community Hospital   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CURRICULUM; EDUCATION PROGRAM; GERIATRIC CARE; HUMAN; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL SCHOOL; POLICY; REVIEW;

AGED; AGING; CURRICULUM; EDUCATION, MEDICAL, UNDERGRADUATE; GERIATRICS; HUMANS; NEW YORK;

EID: 2342537122     PISSN: 00028614     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1532-5415.2004.52225.x     Document Type: Review

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