Journal of general internal medicine
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Multicenter Study
Brief report: Brief instrument to assess geriatrics knowledge of surgical and medical subspecialty house officers.
Initiatives are underway to increase geriatrics training in nonprimary care disciplines. However, no validated instrument exists to measure geriatrics knowledge of house officers in surgical specialties and medical subspecialties. ⋯ This reliable, valid measure of clinical geriatrics knowledge can be used by a wide variety of surgical and medical graduate medical education programs to guide curriculum reform or evaluate program performance to meet certification requirements. The instrument is now available on the web.