Is geriatric medicine teaching homogeneous? The analysis of geriatric medicine courses at Polish undergraduate medical programmes.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

We aimed to analyse the characteristics of geriatric courses offered to undergraduate medical students in higher educational institutions (HEIs) in Poland.

Methods

We searched the official websites of the HEIs offering the medical degree programmes and directly contacted the dean's offices and HEIs representatives to retrieve the relevant information. The documents were analysed for course content, teaching methods, duration, and recommended texts. We also checked the obtained curricula for the reference to of the learning objectives related to geriatric medicine, selected from the currently endorsed Polish educational standards (ES) provided by the Ministry of Science and Higher Education.

Results

Geriatric medicine courses were obligatory at all included HEI

SUBMITTER: Kupis R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11614939 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature