Geriatric Medicine Fellowship
Summary:
The UAB Geriatric Medicine Fellowship Program is dedicated to training physicians
to help aging individuals attain their greatest productivity and the highest possible
quality of life. This program provides clinical and research training for fellows
including innovative, integrated, interdisciplinary, cost-effective primary care,
and specialty clinical services that meet the needs of older adults in all current
and emerging health care settings: outpatient clinics, the home, assisted living
facilities, acute care hospitals, day care or partial hospitals, rehabilitation
units, hospice, and nursing homes.
An information packet on the Geriatric Medicine Fellowship Program is
available for download.
Sponsors:
Funded by the VA.
Purpose:
Our fellowship program is structured to provide a 12-month clinical traineeship
for up to 3 fellows annually. While emphasizing the development of geriatric medicine
academicians, the program also serves as a launching point for careers in administration
and practice-based careers.
Applications:
Applications may be submitted either by mail or by using the ERAS online application
system.
**Please note that the program is open to both Internal and Family Medicine residents,
even though the program is listed under Internal Medicine only on ERAS.
Opportunities for Faculty Involvement:
For aspiring academicians, who desire to pursue clinician-educator or research-based
careers in aging, the Southeast Center of Excellence in Geriatric Medicine (SCEGM)
makes available grants to successful applicants for one or more years of additional
career development support following the clinical fellowship. All efforts of the
fellowship and associated committees are guided by the designated competencies of
the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME). These competencies
include patient care, medical knowledge, practice-based learning and improvement,
interpersonal and communication skills, professionalism, and system-based practice.
Fellowship Workgroups:
The VA-Funded Geriatric Medicine Fellowship Program strives to develop clinically
competent trainees, who are experts in the care of older adults found in multiple
health care settings. Workgroups have been organized around specific topic areas
that are crucial to the fellows' training. Each workgroup meets annually in April/May
to revise the content of the fellowship curriculum/rotations pertinent to their
content area, working with current and potential preceptors. In addition, each workgroup
collaborates with the core fellowship committee to present didactic-based training
to the fellows, contributing at least three one-hour sessions annually. The workgroups
include:
- Medical Direction and Community-Based Care
- Palliative Medicine
- Geriatrics and Medical Subspecialty
- Geriatric Psychiatry and Gero-Psychology
- Rehabilitation and Musculoskeletal Disease/Rheumatology
- Neurology, Neuroscience, and Dementia Care
- Research
Primary Contact Persons:
Richard Sims, M.D.
Director, Geriatric Medicine Fellowship Program and Chief of Geriatrics Section
Birmingham VA Medical Center
(tel) (205) 934-3259
Angela R. Curtis, Ph.D.
Geriatric Education Manager, Co-Director of the Fellowship Steering Committee, UAB
Division of Gerontology and Geriatric Medicine
(tel) (205) 975-6649
Additional Leaders and Key Staff:
- Richard M. Allman, M.D.
Director, UAB Division of Gerontology and Geriatric Medicine, Center for Aging,
and GRECC; Principal Clinical Coordinator, Alabama Quality Assurance Foundation
(AQAF).
- Andrew Duxbury, M.D.
Medical Director, the McDonald Geriatric Clinic.
- Kellie Flood, M.D.
Assistant Professor, UAB Division of Gerontology and Geriatric Medicine
- Patricia Goode, M.D.
Associate Director, Clinical Programs, GRECC; Medical Director, Continence Clinic
- Clare Hays, M.D.
Medical Director, Fair Haven Nursing Home
- Lesa Woodby, Ph.D.
Associate Director, Education and Evaluation, GRECC
- Angela R. Curtis, Ph.D.
Geriatric Education Manager, UAB Division of Gerontology and Geriatric Medicine