Geriatric Medicine - Curriculum and Research

Curriculum

Fellowship Year

Most rotations are in the local community.

Rotations:
•       Hospice and Palliative Medicine – 1 month
•       Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation – 3 months
•       Inpatient at St. Mary’s Health Care – 2 months
•       Geropsychiatry – 2 months at Pine Rest Christian Mental Health and in community with local geropsychiatrist
•       Sub Acute Rehabilitation – 3 months
•       Electives – 1 month

The Fellow will spend time at St. Mary’s Health Care on the inpatient services of the Family Medicine (Residency) Service and/or Internal Medicine (Residency) teaching service.  This provides the opportunity to work with many community physicians, as well as perform geriatric consultations and teaching to residents and medical students.

Longitudinal experiences in long term care will occur throughout the fellowship year under the preceptorship of local Advantage Health Geriatricians in the community. Potential sites include the Clark Retirement Community, Holland Homes, and Maple Creek Retirement Community.

Geriatrics call is typically 1 in 4-5 days, covering phone calls only. It is not expected that fellows will provide in-person patient evaluations or consultations in long term care or hospital settings at night.

One half-day per week is spent in their primary specialty (Family Health Center (FHC) or Wege Internal Medicine office), typically seeing 4-6 patients. Faculty and community physicians provide preceptorship on a rotating basis.

 

Research

The Research Department of GRMEP has developed several tools and resources that will help residents and fellows develop ideas into manageable and realistic research projects. We have found that using these resources saves time and energy while avoiding typical pitfalls and dead ends. For example, the research project outline facilitates the translation of a good idea into a research project, provides the bulk of the narrative portion of IRB application, and serves as the guide for implementing the project. Click here to be directed to the Research Section.