Klara Pokrzywko, Susana Gabriela Torres-Platas, Petal S Abdool, Marouane Nassim, Trent Semeniuk, Yara Moussa, Ghizlane Moussaoui, Chloe Leon, Wayne Baici, Michael Wilkins-Ho, Paul Blackburn, Jess Friedland, N P Vasavan Nair, Karl Looper, Marilyn Segal, Tricia Woo, Marie-Andrée Bruneau, Tarek K Rajji, Soham Rej
OBJECTIVE: In the next 25 years, the population aged 65 and older will nearly double in many countries, with few new doctors wishing to care for older adults. The authors hypothesize that early clinical exposure to elderly patient care could increase student interest in caring for older adults during their future career. METHODS: The authors conducted a pragmatic medical education randomized controlled trial (RCT) at the Jewish General Hospital and the Douglas Mental Health Institute, McGill University, in Montreal, Canada...
July 2019: American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry