@article{ed706143863c4ce5abb69af44efe707f,
title = "Geriatric medical education and training in the United States",
abstract = "Medical education in geriatrics is an important requirement to ready the profession to provide comprehensive health care to the world's and also Taiwan's aging population. The predoctoral curricula and postdoctoral training programs in the United States were developed and supported by government agencies and professional education societies. Geriatric medical education in American medical schools has improved in the past 20 years, yet is still facing many challenges. The purposes of this paper are to review the current progress of, and propose some main principles and policies for the development of geriatric medical education and current progress in the United States. Geriatric medical education should be mandatory to adequately prepare medical students, residents, fellows, and practicing physicians to treat the elderly. The current progress and practice of geriatric medical education at the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio are presented as an example.",
keywords = "Aging population, Chronic disease, Education, Geriatric medicine, Geriatrician",
author = "Saunders, {Mich{\`e}le J.} and Yeh, {Chih Ko} and Hou, {Lein Tuan} and Katz, {Michael S}",
note = "Funding Information: The need for medical education in geriatrics was first acted upon in the late 1970s in the U.S. with the development of predoctoral courses and topics in geriatric medicine, followed by Geriatric Medicine (and Dentistry and Psychiatry) Fellowship Programs. Many of these fellowship programs have been funded by the Bureau of Health Professions (BHPr) of the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) of the U.S. Public Health Service and by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (DVA). In the 1980s, the National Institute on Aging awarded a number of Geriatric Leadership Academic Award grants to clinical and basic science faculty seeking to improve the geriatrics content in their predoctoral curriculum in medical school. The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio (UTHSCSA) received one of these. In addition, BHPr/HRSA funded the first 4 Geriatric Education Centers (GECs) in 1982, followed by 16 more in 1985. The UTHSCSA received one of these as well, and established the South Texas Geriatric Education Center (STGEC), still in existence as the South, West and Panhandle Consortium, Geriatric Education Center of Texas (SWAP-C GEC). Initially, the primary goal of the GECs was to train faculty of medicine, nursing, dentistry, and allied health, in interdisciplinary geriatrics. Through the years, the mission of GECs has been expanded to include predoctoral and postdoctoral continuing education, and collaboration with other education programs (such as the geriatric fellowships). In the 20 years of its existence, the STGEC has developed more than 160 hours of programs in geriatrics and trained more than 24,000 health care professionals from a variety of disciplines. Funding Information: Also in 1998, the San Antonio GRECC of STVHCS was awarded a Palliative Medicine Fellowship Program from the VITAS Healthcare Corporation Fund at Dade Community Foundation in Miami, Florida.",
year = "2005",
month = dec,
doi = "10.1016/S1726-4901(09)70092-9",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "68",
pages = "547--556",
journal = "Journal of the Chinese Medical Association",
issn = "1726-4901",
publisher = "Elsevier Taiwan LLC",
number = "12",
}