• Gustavo Duque, Oddom Demontiero, Sarah Whereat, Piumali Gunawardene, Oliver Leung, Peter Webster, Luis Sardinha, Derek Boersma, and Anita Sharma.
• Medical Education Centre, Division of Geriatric Medicine, Discipline of Medicine, Sydney Medical School Nepean, The University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia. gustavo.duque@sydney.edu.au
• Australas J Ageing. 2013 Jun 1; 32 (2): 103-9.

BackgroundDespite the increasingly ageing population, teaching geriatric medicine at medical schools is a challenge due to the particularities of this subspecialty and the lack of student interest in this subject.MethodsWe assessed a blended system that combines e-learning and person-to-person interaction. Our program offered the students a hands-on learning experience based on self-reflection, access to technology, interactive learning, frequent interaction with the multidisciplinary team, more exposure to patients, and regular feedback.ResultsOur results indicate that the students appreciate this system as a rich and effective learning experience demonstrated by their positive feedback and by their significant improvement in knowledge assessed at the end of their rotation.ConclusionImplementing an interactive blended system is a beneficial approach to teaching geriatric medicine in medical schools and to motivating medical students' interest in this important medical subspecialty.© 2012 The Authors. Australasian Journal on Ageing © 2012 ACOTA.

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