Equipping tomorrow's doctors for the patients of today

摘要: As the proportion of older patients with frailty presenting to health services increases, so does need for doctors be adequately trained meet their needs. The presentations seen in such patients, evidence-based models care and skillsets required deliver them are different than younger patient groups—so specific training is required. Several research programmes have used detailed explicit methods establish expert-validated curricula outlining learning outcomes undergraduates geriatric medicine—there now broad-consensus on what newly qualified know. There are, despite this, shortcomings teaching about medicine. National international surveys from UK, EU, USA, Canada, Austria Netherlands all shown content amount undergraduate teaching. Mechanisms improve this situation, aside specifying curricula, include developing academic departments professorships medicine, providing grants develop medicine novel interventions make best existing resources. Under last these headings, innovations been by: using technology ensure most effective allocation time resources; inter-professional education as a means improving attitudes towards patients; focusing specifically those who work them; trying engage Research areas going forward how incentivise medical schools specified choose an ever-expanding array technologies, implement interprofessional sustainable way design qualitative understanding teams that them.