Training in geriatric medicine in UK undergraduate medical schools

Training in geriatric medicine in UK undergraduate medical schools.

Survey of training in geriatric medicine in UK undergraduate medical schools.

SIR—The view that the study of human ageing and healthcare needs of older people should form part of the undergraduate medical curriculum is supported by the World Health Organization, the Royal College of Physicians of London and the General Medical Council [1–3]. Surveys in the 1980s showed that geriatric medicine was being taught in almost all medical schools, most commonly by a compulsory a...

Undergraduate occupational medicine tuition in UK schools of medicine.

AIMS To assess any recent change in the quantity of teaching of occupational medicine (OM) in UK undergraduate medical curricula, and to compare these results with those obtained in previous years. METHODS A questionnaire survey designed to capture information on the teaching of OM to undergraduates in all medical schools listed in the UK Universities and Colleges Admissions Service prospectu...

Cardiopulmonary resuscitation. Paper 1: A survey of undergraduate training in UK medical schools.

This paper presents the results of a UK national survey of Basic Life Support (BLS) and Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS) training for undergraduate medical students. In all responding medical schools, undergraduates are taught BLS at least once during their course but the assessment and refresher aspects of BLS training are not uniformly covered. There are inconsistencies in ACLS teaching, ...

Will undergraduate geriatric medicine survive?

of relevant research to establish best practice, hopefully arising as much from within the NHS as the academic sector, through its reconfigured R&D programme including the new Dementia and Neurodegenerative Diseases Research Network (DeNDRoN). • The fifth consequence would be the emergence of an evidence base that could properly inform the commissioning process and better define the roles of pr...