Researchers incorporate multisite geriatric clerkship
Friday, October 2, 2009 - 06:14
in Health & Medicine
As the population ages, it is imperative that medical students are prepared to treat older adults, regardless of their speciality. Researchers at Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) report that an interdisciplinary multisite fourth-year geriatrics clerkship, has successfully met all the ambulatory core geriatric competencies as outlined by the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) working group. This report appears in the October Journal of the American Geriatrics Society...