TY - JOUR
T1 - Availability of Education and Training for Medical Specialists about the Impact of Dementia on Comorbid Disease Management
AU - Ibrahim, Joseph Elias
AU - Davis, Marie-Claire
PY - 2013
Y1 - 2013
N2 - Individuals with dementia carry an additional health burden of multiple comorbid conditions. Effectively assessing and treating these comorbid conditions requires the medical specialist to be aware of, understand, and manage the effects of dementia on their clinical subspecialty practice. This ecological study describes the dementia-related education available to medical specialists in Australia outside the domains of geriatrics, neurology, and psychiatry. The dementia-related content of specialist medical training curricula and dementia-related information published in high-impact medical journals between 2000-2012 was reviewed. Dementia-related education was found to be absent from the training curricula for 14 of the medical specialties within Australia. And less than 0.10 (1,921 articles) of the more than two million articles published in the 138 journals assessed were dementia related
AB - Individuals with dementia carry an additional health burden of multiple comorbid conditions. Effectively assessing and treating these comorbid conditions requires the medical specialist to be aware of, understand, and manage the effects of dementia on their clinical subspecialty practice. This ecological study describes the dementia-related education available to medical specialists in Australia outside the domains of geriatrics, neurology, and psychiatry. The dementia-related content of specialist medical training curricula and dementia-related information published in high-impact medical journals between 2000-2012 was reviewed. Dementia-related education was found to be absent from the training curricula for 14 of the medical specialties within Australia. And less than 0.10 (1,921 articles) of the more than two million articles published in the 138 journals assessed were dementia related
UR - http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/03601277.2013.767657
U2 - 10.1080/03601277.2013.767657
DO - 10.1080/03601277.2013.767657
M3 - Article
SN - 0360-1277
VL - 39
SP - 925
EP - 941
JO - Educational Gerontology
JF - Educational Gerontology
IS - 12
ER -