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A J Levenson

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PubMed1980

Gerontologic and geriatric training in medical school: curricular preferences shown by medical students, educators, and general practitioners.

The need for incorporating gerontologic and geriatric training into the education of medical students is evident. Two main obstacles are the lack of educator knowledge in planning such training, and negative attitudes toward aging and the aged. Curriculum planning requires a design for the goals/objectives, the content, and the delivery vehicles. This article concerns chiefly the delivery vehicles, a subject which has received little attention in the literature. Negative attitudes on the part of students and their educators may defeat the incorporation of geriatric training into the curriculum. To assist in reducing these obstacles, a study was conducted for the purpose of providing data to educators which might facilitate the design of a delivery component for a medical student curriculum in gerontology and geriatrics. Senior medical students, their educators, and some general practitioners were surveyed in randomized groups, to determine: 1) their preferences for delivery vehicles in such a curriculum, 2) their attitudes toward aging and the aged, and 3) relevant demographic variables. The results are discussed from the viewpoint of the potential impact of these factors on their preferences and on the creation of obstacles to curriculum incorporation.

Aged↗
PubMed1979

Prevention of psychiatric recidivism: a model service.

This article describes the patient-care activities of a medical school multidisciplinary section on geriatric psychiatry. The main treatment goal is the prevention of psychiatric recidivism. An index of this prevention is the re-admission rate, since the risks of institutionalization and recidivism tend to rise with each successive admission. The Section reported a re-admission rate of 4 percent for the first year of operation, a rate significantly less than that reported in the literature. The Section's achievement is predicated upon compliance with the requirements for optimal mental health care of the elderly. The protocol is presented in the hope that it may help others who wish to start such a service.

Aged↗
PubMed1977

Acute schizophrenia: an efficacious outpatient treatment approach as an alternative to full-time hospitalization.

A research study was designed to test the hypothesis that acutely schizophrenic patients treated for a few minutes a day in a specially designed, city-county hospital outpatient clinic could remit as frequently, rapidly, and economically as a similar group managed on the ward of the same hospital. The results of the study permitted acceptance of the hypothesis. To wit, 90% of the clinic patients remitted in a median time of 12.5 days, as opposed to 70% of the ward patients remitting in a median time of 19.5 days and for approximately six times the cost.

Acute Disease↗
PubMed1977

The L-D Trend Oriented Psychiatric Record.

A sixty-five item psychiatric inventory was developed to comply with the requirements for trend oriented medical record keeping for psychiatric patients. The inventory is set in a clinically practical format, and severity rating allow for the ojectification and standardization of clinical data. A preliminary study indicated high interrater reliability and interrater agreement. A description of the L-D Trend Oriented Psychiatric Record, instructions for its use, and its relative advantages for clinical and research purposes are presented.

Adolescent↗