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Research Article

A national survey on the teaching provision of undergraduate geriatric medicine in Malaysia

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Pages 456-467 | Published online: 26 Apr 2021
 

ABSTRACT

Malaysia is becoming an aging nation, with 32 medical schools providing 5,000 graduates every year. The extent these graduates have been trained in core concepts in geriatric medicine remains unclear. This work aims to describe the current state of teaching provision on aging and geriatric medicine to the medical undergraduates in Malaysia. A survey was developed by geriatric medicine experts from the Malaysian Society of Geriatric Medicine (MSGM) to review the teaching provision based on the recommended MSGM Undergraduate Geriatric Medicine Curriculum and was sent to all medical schools across the country. The response rate was 50% (16 out of 32 medical schools). Among 16 medical schools, 10 (62.5%) delivered the learning outcomes as part of an integrated curriculum, and five via a mixed geriatric and integrated curriculum at varying degrees of completeness, ranging from 19% to 94%. One particular medical school did not deliver any of the core topics as part of its undergraduate curriculum. It has been identified that the strongest barrier to delivery was lack of expertise, followed by the fact that the topics were not included in the current curriculum. Improvement in teaching provision should be implemented through a concerted effort to adopt a geriatric medical curriculum nationwide, while future research should aim at the interventions taken to address the barriers in its provision.

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Acknowledgments

We thank the medical schools that participated in this national survey and provided the required data. We also acknowledge Ms Irene Lim from Malaysian Society of Geriatric Medicine who was involved in updating the contacts of the medical schools and Dr Deng Jia Huey who helped with the invitation of medical schools’ representatives into the study.

Additional information

Funding

This project is supported by the Malaysian Society of Geriatric Medicine in terms of allowing the usage of their logo in communications with the medical schools.

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