PPP Home

PRINCIPLES REGARDING AGING

The American Medical Student Association:

1.             URGES that medical schools be mandated to establish teaching programs in geriatric medicine as an integral part of the formal curriculum;

2.             SUPPORTS the establishment of competency standards in geriatric medicine for the licensing and certification of all physicians;

3.             ENCOURAGES the providing of funds to schools of medicine and other organizations for training and research in the field of aging;

4.             ENCOURAGES those specialties that treat large numbers of elderly patients to recognize the special needs of the elderly and to include training about these needs in medical school and residency programs. (1985)