Abstract
When designing a geriatric medical curriculum, it is important to understand the attitudes that medical students have towards the elderly and careers in geriatric medicine. Therefore, attitudes of senior medical students at the University of Queensland towards a career with the elderly were assessed using a questionnaire. Very few students were considering pursuing a career in geriatric medicine and most students excluded the elderly from the age groups that they would prefer to treat This appeared to be secondary to a perception that geriatric medicine is a ‘low tech’ specialty concerned with psychosocial and placement issues and rarely with cure.
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