Geriatric Medicine Fellowship
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Curriculum
The 1-year training program is designed to give geriatric medicine fellows a comprehensive experience.
Fellows are exposed to inpatient, ambulatory, consultative and long-term care geriatrics and will interact with geriatricians, geriatric psychiatrists, psychiatrists and allied health personnel in a multidisciplinary model. The curriculum combines a longitudinal and a rotational curricular model.
Locations:
- Carilion Roanoke Memorial Hospital
- Salem Veterans Affairs Medical Center
- Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine
Didactic Sessions
- Monthly Geriatric Educational Discussion Topics
- Dementia Care
- Dying and Death
- Prevention
- Ethics
- Community Care
- Stress/Distress and What to Do About It
- Care Transitions
- The Future
- Medications
- Teaching Geriatrics
- Approach to Care
- Clinician Care
- Tuesday Didactic Topics (3 hours, one Tuesday per month)
- Geriatric Assessment
- Post-Acute Care
- What Matters
- Gerontology 101
- Dementia
- Hospital Care
- Frailty
- Healthy Aging
- Pain
- Mobility
- Mentation
- Caregiving
- Other Didactic Sessions
- Medicine Grand rounds every Friday morning
- Teaching sessions for Family Medicine residents every three to four months
- Journal Club and Board Review occur monthly
- Research and clinical educator series
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