Department of Family and Community Medicine, University of Arizona, College of Medicine, Tucson, AZ 85719, USA.
Arch Gerontol Geriatr. 2009 Dec;49 Suppl 2:S17-20. doi: 10.1016/S0167-4943(09)70007-X.
The world's population is aging and there is need for more geriatricians. Current training programs, however, are not producing a sufficient number of geriatricians to meet that need, largely because students and residents lack interest in a career in geriatrics. A variety of reasons have been suggested to explain that lack of interest, and several changes in geriatrics training might increase the number of medical trainees who choose a career in geriatrics. These changes include recruiting medical students who are predisposed to geriatrics, loan forgiveness programs for those who enter careers in geriatrics, increased reimbursement for geriatric care, providing geriatric education to physicians in all specialties throughout their training, and refocusing geriatrics training so it includes the care of healthy vigorous older adults, rather than an exclusive focus on those with debility and chronic or fatal illnesses.
世界人口正在老龄化，需要更多的老年医学专家。然而，目前的培训计划并没有培养出足够数量的老年医学专家来满足这一需求，主要是因为学生和住院医师对老年医学职业缺乏兴趣。已经提出了各种原因来解释这种缺乏兴趣的现象，并且对老年医学培训进行一些改变可能会增加选择老年医学职业的医学受训者的数量。这些变化包括招募倾向于老年医学的医学生，为那些从事老年医学职业的人提供贷款免除计划，增加老年护理的报销，为所有专业的医生提供老年医学教育，以及重新调整老年医学培训，使其包括健康活跃的老年人的护理，而不仅仅是关注那些体弱多病、患有慢性或致命疾病的人。
