What Makes Residents Interested in Geriatric Psychiatry? A Pan-Canadian Online Survey of Psychiatry Residents

The AAGP Scholars Program: Predictors of Pursuing Geriatric Psychiatry Fellowship Training

“…Given we had 27 candidate variables, the chance for a Type I error is high. And while only 34% responded to our survey, this response rate is consistent with other survey-based research 13 but does limit the generalizability of our findings. For example, some Scholars who did not complete the survey may have pursued fellowship for reasons other than those found in our study.…”

“…While medical student Scholars were less likely to decide to pursue fellowship than psychiatry resident Scholars in bivariate comparisons, training level was not associated with the decision to pursue fellowship in our final model, contrary to previous work that evaluated interest in geriatric psychiatry among psychiatry residents. 13 This study revealed the importance of the AAGP to the pipeline mission of the Scholars Program. In fact, the final three significant predictors all indicated that greater involvement in AAGP may positively influence the decision to pursue fellowship training in geriatric psychiatry.…”

“…We used three categories of potential predictors for the decision to pursue fellowship training in geriatric psychiatry: demographic characteristics, perceived beneficial components of the program, and behaviors after the program. Demographic characteristics included gender, age (on a continuous scale), whether the participant was an international medical graduate (included because of the rising number of international medical graduates entering geriatric psychiatry 6 ), and whether the participant first attended the Scholars Program as a medical student versus as a resident (included because of previous work suggesting that exposure to geriatric psychiatry earlier in training is associated with greater interest in geriatric psychiatry 13 ). Perceived beneficial components of the program included 14 items ( Fig.…”

Teaching provision for old age psychiatry in medical schools in the UK and Ireland: a survey

“…Indeed, US and Canadian surveys looking at factors that influence medical students choosing old age psychiatry as a career have found that one of the key factors is completing an old age psychiatry rotation alongside specific teacher attributes and training experiences. 25 , 26 These findings support our key recommendations ( Box 1 ).…”

How Argentina is training their mental health residents to face its Silver Tsunami?

“…As in 1994 and 2002, the majority of CABAMHR have reported that they do not receive an appropriate training in those topics and, alarmingly, almost 1/3 of them were caring for older adults even with high levels of prejudice and nihilism regarding the care of this population. The lack of GP/PG training would be even greater in the first two years of residency, the time on which the preferences to care for this population would be especially determined (Rej et al ., 2015). Although this situation is similar to that found in other places (Lepetit et al ., 2014), in low- and middle-income countries like Argentina, it represents an unforgivable waste of resources and opportunities.…”