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Do all medical schools now require students to take courses in geriatrics and gerontology?
No. Although a number of medical schools require course work
in geriatrics/gerontology, many still have only elective
courses or no courses at all. Incentives in the form of
materials support and grants have come to some medical
schools to develop and institutionalize formal curricula
from such organizations as the Association of American
Medical Colleges, the American Geriatrics Society, and the
Association for Gerontology in Higher Education, as well as
foundations such as the John Hartford Foundation. Top-ranked
medical schools for geriatrics training include Harvard,
Duke, Johns Hopkins, Mount Sinai (NY), UCLA, University of
Washington, Michigan, Wake Forest, Pennsylvania, and Yale.
Linda Breytspraak, Center on Aging Studies, University of Missouri-Kansas City
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