中文摘要：

继续医学教育是医学教育的重要组成部分。加强全科医师的继续医学教育则是提高基层医疗卫生服务所面临的紧迫任务。具有综合学科特点的老年病学科在全科医师继续医学教育中拥有得天独厚的优势，应充分认识并积极发挥其作用，推动我国社区医疗服务健康发展。

英文摘要：

Continuing medical education is an important part of medical education. It is an urgent task to strengthen continuing medical education of general practitioners in order to promote community medical and health service. Geriatrics, a subject with comprehensive discipline characteristics, has unique advantages in continuing medical education of general practitioners. It is important to fully understand and play the role of ger- iatrics in continuing medical education of general practitioners for the promotion of community health service.