The development of academic geriatric medicine: Progress toward preparing the nation's physicians to care for an aging population

Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

Volumn 55, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 2075-2082

  Warshaw, Gregg A ^a   Bragg, Elizabeth J ^b   Brewer, David E ^b   Meganathan, Karthikeyan ^b   Ho, Mona ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI   (United States)

^c CINCINNATI CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Academic geriatric programs; Centers of excellence; Geriatric education

Indexed keywords

AGING; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EDUCATION PROGRAM; GERIATRIC CARE; GERIATRICS; HUMAN; MEDICAL SCHOOL; MEDICAL STUDENT; NORMAL HUMAN; UNITED STATES; UNIVERSITY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; CURRICULUM; GERIATRICS; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; SOCIETIES, MEDICAL; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TIME FACTORS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 36849055150     PISSN: 00028614     EISSN: 15325415     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1532-5415.2007.01519.x     Document Type: Article

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