In this issue, Peterson et al1 report that the majority of family physicians with Certificates of Added Qualifications (CAQs) in Geriatrics self-report
on geriatrics training in medical school, family prac- tice residency training, or continuing geriatric curriculum consultations to family practice
Milwaukee, WI 53214 Website: www alz org/sewi Primary Care Physicians, Geriatric Medicine Aurora Sinai Medical Center Soryal Soryal, MD 1020 N 12
Geriatric Medicine deals with the prevention, diagnosis, treatment, remedial and social aspects of illness in older people, mainly patients 75 years of age
MINIMUM GERIATRIC COMPETENCIES for IM-FM RESIDENTS Recognize delirium as a medical urgency, promptly evaluate and treat underlying problem
Recommended Curriculum Guidelines for Family Medicine Residents Optimize treatment plans based on knowledge of local geriatric care resources,
geriatric medicine as an integral part of the family medicine residency program training in geriatrics for family medicine residents include the
Geriatric Training in Family Medicine tively safe in mainstream practice fail in geriatric When family physicians treat elderly patients,
Writing in Family Medicine in 1995, the Group on Geriatric Education of the Society of Teachers of Fam- ily Medicine (STFM) argued that geriatrics was an in-
Geriatrics offers a wide diversity of career options and is a clinically and intellectually rewarding discipline given the medical complexity of older adults
growing elderly population means that the medical community must give thought to the General practitioners (GPs) are at the heart of front-line health care