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Abstract
A series of telephone interviews were conducted to assess geriatric psychiatry content at each of Canada's 16 medical schools. Nearly all schools included geriatric psychiatry content and most of the teaching took place in the pre-clerkship. Geriatric psychiatrists are teaching and participating in the planning of the curriculum at most medical schools and most of the clinical experiences in geriatric psychiatry are occurring with inpatients. In order to enhance the teaching of geriatric psychiatry Canadian medical schools should increase the amount of ambulatory and community-based teaching, integrate more geriatric psychiatry teaching with geriatric medicine and increase the profile of geriatric psychiatry within the psychiatry clerkship rotation.