Geriatrics Fellowship
Overview
The mission of the UC San Diego Geriatrics Fellowship program is to train geriatric medicine fellows to become geriatricians who have the knowledge and skills needed to excel in their setting of choice as clinicians, educators and leaders in the field of aging.
Our ACGME-accredited training program is one year in length. We provide a comprehensive fellowship program, which offers a wide variety of quality clinical experiences in geriatric care settings, including Acute Care Hospital, Long-Term Care, Ambulatory Care, Home Care, PACE (Program of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly), and Hospice and Palliative care.
The aims of our Geriatric Medicine Fellowship Program are to:
- Ensure healthy and safe learning and working environments that promote fellow and faculty well-being
- Train compassionate geriatricians who thrive in managing the medical and psychosocial complexity of aging across multiple care settings
- Provide opportunities to work with a diverse patient population representing the heterogeneity of aging
- Provide appropriate faculty oversight and clinical supervision to support progressive fellow autonomy
- Utilize competency-based goals and objectives for educational experiences
- Address all six ACGME Competencies including Professionalism, Patient Care, Medical Knowledge, Practice-Based Learning and Improvement, Interpersonal and Communication Skills and Systems-Based Practice
- Teach Fellows to care for patients in an environment that maximizes communication and promotes safe, interprofessional, team-based care
- Provide objective performance evaluation based on competencies and geriatrics-specific milestones
- Arrange protected time for structured educational activities beyond direct patient care
- Support scholarly activities of fellows
- Prepare fellows for specialty certification in geriatrics from the American Board of Internal Medicine or American Board of Family Medicine
The program's small faculty to trainee ratio provides an exceptional teaching environment conducive to meaningful interactions. Didactic sessions complement the clinical rotations including innovative curricula in quality improvement and patient safety, clinician education, board review, journal club, and leadership training.
For eligibility and applying to the Fellowship program, please visit our Application Requirements page.
Additional opportunities are available to fellows who wish to engage in research and research training. UC San Diego has several research training opportunities that may be of interest to fellows desiring to become clinician-scientists, including several T32 fellowship programs.
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