Am J Psychiatry 1988; 145:836-843
Copyright © 1988 by American Psychiatric Association
A curriculum for education in geriatric psychiatry
RS Marin, JR Foster, CV Ford, BV Reifler, B Reisberg, CB Robinowitz, WH Sledge, J Spar and PJ Tighe
Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh, PA.
The authors present recommendations for educating medical students and
psychiatric residents in geropsychiatry. They are primarily concerned with
the objectives and methods rather than the content of training. Proposals
are structured in terms of training objectives and educational settings in
which such training takes place. The proposals are intended to be specific
enough to be truly useful and at the same time sufficiently generalizable
to adapt to geropsychiatric training in a variety of institutions. Priority
is given to integrating knowledge of normal and abnormal aging with the
clinical skills and empathy necessary to approach patients with competence
and understanding.
