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A Course in Dementia for Third-Year Medical Students

Dr. Goldstein is Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry, R.A. MaLossi is a second-year medical student, Summer Fellow, and B.L. Young is Research Associate, Department of Family Medicine; all at the State University of New York at Buffalo, School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, Erie County Medical Medical Center, 462 Grider Street, Buffalo, NY, 14215. Dr. Kim is Clinical Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry, University of Virginia, Salem, VA, 24153. Address correspondence and reprint requests to Dr. Goldstein, Erie County Medical Center, Department of Psychiatry, 462 Grider Street, Buffalo, NY 14215.

Outcomes of an annual 1-week intensive course, entitled "Dementia With Focus on Alzheimer Disease (AD)," were studied. The Division of Geriatric Psychiatry created this "selective" in 1990 for third-year medical students of the State University of New York at Buffalo School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences in an effort to enhance geriatric education. In 1997, a survey was mailed to all participants of the past 6 years whose addresses were available (N=50). Fifty nonparticipants, matched by graduation year, received a similar survey. The respondent participants in the course (N=25) reported significantly more confidence in their assessment and diagnosis of dementia, awareness of community resources for demented patients, and familiarity with issues of caregiver burden than the control subjects (N=27). The authors conclude that small-group, brief, intensive but comprehensive, and diverse learning experiences in AD had favorable effects on the self-reported knowledge base of the course participants.>

Key Words: Dementia • Alzheimer's Disease • New Idea

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