What is it about?
• Only one‐third of graduating FRCPC EM residents are comfortable with all core domains of care of older persons in the ED. • Current EM residency training in Canada may not be adequately preparing practitioners to provide competent care for older patients. • Addition of focused geriatric EM content across all Canadian EM programs may improve outcomes with our geriatric EM population.
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Why is it important?
• Older ED patients are challenging • Geriatric EM training may not be adequate
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This page is a summary of: A national survey of Canadian emergency medicine residents’ comfort with geriatric emergency medicine, Canadian Journal of Emergency Medicine, April 2016, Cambridge University Press,
DOI: 10.1017/cem.2016.27.
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