ArticleGerontology & geriatrics education
Effect of short-term research training programs on medical students' attitudes toward aging.
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- Medical students' attitudes towards older persons - a systematic review and meta-analysis.Medical education online · 2026Pooled it
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- Knowledge, attitudes, and practice (KAP) of old age mental health among Chinese medical undergraduate students: a cross-sectional study.BMC medical education · 2025Article
- Preparing Physicians to Care for Older Adults: Strategies for Making Your Educational Program More "Age-Friendly".Medical science educator · 2025Article
- Geriatric medicine is advancing, not declining: A proposal for new metrics to assess the health of the profession.Journal of the American Geriatrics Society · 2025Article
- Being old is like…: perceptions of aging among healthcare profession students.BMC medical education · 2024Article
- "Aging is beautiful and graceful:" Exploring college students' perceptions of aging, older adults, and future older selves.Educational gerontology · 2023Article
- A scoping review of the changing landscape of geriatric medicine in undergraduate medical education: curricula, topics and teaching methods.European geriatric medicine · 2022Article
- Attitudes towards older adults (80 years and older): A measurement with the ageing semantic differential - A cross-sectional study of Austrian students.International journal of older people nursing · 2022Article
- The Effect of Integrating Service-Learning and Learning Portfolio Construction into the Curriculum of Gerontological Nursing.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- Letter to the editor: Reply to: The Future of Geriatrics.The journal of nutrition, health & aging · 2020Article
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Abstract
Strategies to build a larger workforce of physicians dedicated to research on aging are needed. One method to address this shortage of physician scientists in geriatrics is short-term training in aging research for early-stage medical students. The authors examined the effects of two summer research training programs, funded by the National Institutes of Health, on medical students' attitudes toward aging, using the Carolina Opinions on Care of Older Adults (COCOA). The programs combined mentored research, didactics, and some clinical exposure. In a sample of 134 participants, COCOA scores improved significantly after completion of the research training program. There was a significant interaction of gender, such that female students had higher baseline scores than males, but this gender difference in COCOA scores was attenuated following the program. Four of the six COCOA subscales showed significant improvement from baseline: early interest in geriatrics, empathy/compassion, attitudes toward geriatrics careers, and ageism.
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