Am J Psychiatry 1980; 137:297-300
Copyright © 1980 by American Psychiatric Association
Geriatric psychiatry training: a brief clinical rotation
GD Cohen, JJ O'Brien, JV Gillilan, TL Walsh and R Anthony
Burgeoning interest in geriatric psychiatry has created a challenge of
optimally fitting geriatric content into already crowded psychiatric
residency curricula. The authors review general considerations in geriatric
psychiatry training and describe a brief clinical rotation for working with
the elderly. The brief rotation is not presented as the ideal way of
imparting geriatric psychiatry skills, but as an effective use of limited
time to improve one's approach to the older patient. The clinical rotation
enables the resident to learn more about psychiatric issues in later life,
as well as to acquire a better perspective on other parts of the life cycle
and on other aspects of psychiatry.
