Integrating Geriatrics into Medical School Through Problem-Based Learning

Many medical school faculty are now recognising the need for students to learn more geriatric content; yet, they may hesitate to add geriatrics because their general faculty has limited expertise in geriatrics, few geriatricians, and most geriatricians are already over-committed. Problem-based learning is one possible solution without adding new faculty, nor requiring much extra teaching time. This article summarizes the educational and …