Does it stick? Effects of an integrated vertical undergraduate aging curriculum on medical and surgical residents

Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

Volumn 56, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 132-138

  Wieland, Darryl ^a,b,c   Eleazer, G Paul ^c   Bachman, David L ^d   Corbin, Deronda ^d   Oldendick, Robert ^e   Boland, Rebecca ^b   Stewart, Thomas ^c   Richeson, Nancy ^c   Thornhill, J T ^c  

^a Palmetto Health Richland ^*  (United States)

^b Division of Geriatrics   (United States)

^c School of Medicine

^d MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

Geriatric education; Program evaluation; Residency education; Undergraduate medical education

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGING; ARTICLE; CURRICULUM; EDUCATION PROGRAM; FEMALE; GERIATRIC CARE; HUMAN; MALE; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL SCHOOL; MEDICAL STUDENT; QUESTIONNAIRE; RESIDENT; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; AGING; CURRICULUM; EDUCATION, MEDICAL, UNDERGRADUATE; EDUCATIONAL MEASUREMENT; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GERIATRICS; HUMANS; INTERNSHIP AND RESIDENCY; MALE; QUESTIONNAIRES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURGERY; UNITED STATES;

EID: 37749010019     PISSN: 00028614     EISSN: 15325415     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1532-5415.2007.01476.x     Document Type: Article

References (23)

1. Vivell S, Solomon DH, Beck JC. Medical education responds to the 20th century's success story. J Am Geriatr Soc 1987 35 : 1107 1115.
2. Remmen R, Scherpbier A, van der Vleuten C et al. Effectiveness of basic clinical skills training programmes: A cross-sectional comparison of four medical schools. Med Educ 2001 35 : 121 128.
3. Eleazer GP, Egbert C, Caskey S et al. Incorporating geriatrics in a medical school curriculum. Gerontol Geriatr Educ 1994 14 : 65 76.
4. Eleazer GP, Doshi R, Wieland D et al. Geriatric content in medical school curricula: Results of a national survey. J Am Geriatr Soc 2005 53 : 136 140.
5. Medina-Walpole A, Clark NS, Heppard B et al. A user's guide to enhancing geriatrics in an undergraduate medical school curriculum: The ten-step model to winning the "geriatric game." J Am Geriatr Soc 2004 52 : 814 821.
6. Bernard MA, McAuley WJ, Belzer JA et al. An evaluation of a low-intensity intervention to introduce medical students to healthy older people. J Am Geriatr Soc 2003 51 : 419 423.
7. Wieland D, Eleazer GP. Senior mentorship in basic medical education: Developing programs for the teaching of aging. Gerontol Geriatr Educ 2006 27 : 1 2.
8. Anderson MB. A thematic summary of the geriatrics curricula at 40 U S Medical schools. Acad Med 2004 79 (7 Suppl) : S213 S226.
9. Aging & Quality of Life [on-line]. Available at Acessed May 7, 2007.
10. Diachun LL, Dumbrell AC, Byrne K et al. But does it stick? Evaluating the durability of improved knowledge following an undergraduate experiential geriatrics learning session. J Am Geriatr Soc 2006 54 : 696 701.
11. Roberts E, Richeson N, Thornhill J et al. University of South Carolina School of Medicine. Acad Med 2004 79 (7 Suppl) : S161 S167.
12. Roberts E, Richeson N, Thornhill JT et al. The senior mentor program at the University of South Carolina School of Medicine: An innovative geriatric longitudinal curriculum. Gerontol Geriatr Educ 2006 27 : 11 23.
13. Core competencies for the care of older patients: Recommendations of the American Geriatrics Society. The education committee writing group of the American Geriatrics Society. Acad Med 2000 75 : 252 255.
14. Eleazer GP, Wieland D, Roberts E et al. Preparing medical students to care for older adults: The impact of a senior mentor program. Acad Med 2006 81 : 393 398.
15. Corwin SJ, Frahm K, Ochs LA et al. Medical student and senior participants' perceptions of a mentoring program designed to enhance geriatric medical education. Gerontol Geriatr Educ 2006 26 : 47 65.
16. Association of American Medical Colleges DoME. Medical School Graduation Questionaire, Individual School Report University of South Carolina 2004.
17. Association of American Medical Colleges DoME. Medical School Graduation Questionaire, Individual School Report Medical University of South Carolina 2004.
18. Struck BD, Bernard MA, Teasdale TA. Effect of a mandatory geriatric medicine clerkship on third-year students. J Am Geriatr Soc 2005 53 : 2007 2011.
19. Stewart TJ, Roberts E, Eleazer P et al. Reliability and validity issues for two common measures of medical students' attitudes toward older adults. Educ Gerontol 2006 32 : 409 421.
20. Stewart TJ, Eleazer GP, Boland R. The middle of the road: Results from the aging semantic differential with four cohorts of medical students. J Am Geriatr Soc 2007 55 : 1275 1280.
21. Williams BC, Fitzgerald JT. Brief instrument to assess geriatrics knowledge of surgical and medical subspecialty house officers. J Gen Intern Med 2006 21 : 490 493.
22. Higashi RT. Are Older Patients Boring? The Hidden Curriculum in Clinical Medical Education. Paper presented at the Society for Applied Anthropology Annual Meeting, 2006.
23. Tokarski C. Residency Programs Not Preparing Students for Geriatric Population. Medscape Medical News 2005.