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ALFONSO GARCIA, Adianez. Characterization of contents on the third age person in the training process of the physician and the integral general medicine specialist. Educ Med Super [online]. 2010, vol.24, n.3, pp. 379-386. ISSN 0864-2141.

To science, the aging has always been a challenge as a process characterized by to express externally a sequence of changes and internal transformations as result of interrelation among intrinsic and extrinsic factors. It is necessary the training of the primary health care physician to serve the elderly. The aim of present paper is to characterize the curricular contents to physician's and specialist train in integral general medicine in elderly care. We made an analysis of a set of documents accounted for this training, founding the contents of Training Plan in Medicine career are included in the module of Internal Medicine discipline. In the specialty program they are well distributed but are not integrated to guiding of the methodological folder and to the elderly care program, thus concluding that training plans of medical staff in the elderly care area are appropriate as regards its contents but in its execution are difficulties preventing a suitable integral training of the professional.

Palavras-chave : Elderly program; primary care; characterization; contents; study plan.

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