Sentence examples for geriatric training from inspiring English sources

Geriatric training for nurses also needs to be expanded.

And teaching hospitals graduate internists with as little as six hours of geriatric training.

Several of Boult's colleagues no longer advertise their geriatric training for fear that they'll get too many elderly patients.

First, Congress needs to reauthorize the Nurse Education Act, which focuses on faculty development, geriatric training and other work force improvement programs.

Medical schools and residencies require little to no geriatric training, and many students are reluctant to get into the field because it is among the lowest paid in medicine.

Historically, the explanation for not requiring geriatric training in this country has been that a majority of hospital patients are old, and thus doctors-in-training absorb what they need to know by osmosis.

Despite this, on average, providers who were not geriatric trained prescribed twice as many drugs per patient (U = p <.001).

The odds were significantly greater of being prescribed 9 or more drugs (odds ratio 13.15, 95% confidence interval 4.3 39.5) or being prescribed at least 1 PIM (odds ratio 6.25, 95% confidence interval 1.3 29.0) if the prescriber was not geriatric trained.

The three questions (with subquestions) around training exposure were designed to identify the amount of general geriatrics training received during undergraduate and postgraduate training, and then, more specifically, to the geriatric oncology training in their specialty training programmes.

There has been very little research worldwide into geriatric oncology training needs.

Another report suggested a highly variable quality in geriatric undergraduate training in German and Austrian universities [ 8].