Geriatric Medicine Fellowship Program

Dear Applicants and Colleagues,

Florida Atlantic University's Charles E. Schmidt College of Medicine is pleased to have an ACGME accredited Geriatric Medicine Fellowship in collaboration with the West Palm VA Medical Center (WPVAMC) and Conviva Care Centers, a large predominantly value-based primary care Geriatrics practice.

We are recruiting up to three fellows to join us in a beautiful area of the country – the "Sunshine State" - with warm winters and ready access to beautiful beaches. In Palm Beach County, the most rapidly growing segment of the population is those 85 and older. The WPVAMC serves over 62,000 Veterans among whom 70% are age 65 years and older, and has a wide spectrum of Geriatric care facilities and programs that are ideally suited for training the next generation of Geriatricians. Conviva Care Centers serve close to 200,000 older patients in Florida in over 75 primary care offices, and offer outpatient, home visit, and virtual visits to this population.

The goals of the Fellowship are to train individuals to become outstanding clinicians who can help alleviate the shortage of health professionals knowledgeable and skilled in the care of older adults in Florida as well as the U.S.; and to provide training opportunities to become clinician-educators and medical administrators, as well as opportunities to develop a focus in scholarship, quality improvement, and research.

Please take a few moments to review our curriculum. If you have any questions please feel free to contact us directly.

Tarek Eid, M.D.
Program Director

Joseph G. Ouslander, M.D.
Associate Program Director

Michael Silverman, M.D.
Associate Program Director

Geriatric Medicine Fellowship Curriculum

Clinical Rotations

• Outpatient Geriatrics
• Home Based Primary Care
• Skilled Nursing Facility at John Knox Village
• Skilled Nursing Facility at the VA Community Living Center (CLC)
• Hospice & Palliative Care
• PMR & Pain Medicine
• Geriatric Psychiatry
• Wound Care
• Audiology and Speech Pathology
• Patient Safety

Continuity Experiences

• Geriatric Medicine Clinic
  Each fellow is assigned to one of our geriatric continuity clinics for the year
• Skilled Nursing Facility Long-Term Care
  Fellows spend half a day per month following their panel of long-term care patients at one of our skilled nursing facilities
• Quality Improvement
  Fellows are required to complete a quality improvement project

Didactics

• Wednesday Lecture Series
• Geriatrics Grand Rounds
• UCLA Intensive Course in Geriatric Medicine & Board Review

National Meetings

• American Geriatrics Society National Meeting

Contact Geriatric Medicine Fellowship Program

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