The fellowship has been accredited continuously as a joint internal medicine-family medicine program by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education since the first round of review in 1988.  The fellowship was recently reaccredited, with commendation, in 2004.  Family physicians as well as internists are encouraged to apply. The Associate Director is a family physician graduate of the program, and one slot is reserved annually for family physicians.

 

Goals

The goal of the University of Connecticut Geriatrics Fellowship is to produce new leaders in geriatric medicine who will teach excellent care of older persons and/or conduct aging-related research at medical schools, teaching hospitals, academic nursing homes, and other sites serving elderly individuals.  Most graduates will have a teaching, research, or administrative career emphasis.

Graduates of the University of Connecticut Geriatrics Fellowship program will be able to demonstrate knowledge of:

1) Expert clinical care of ill older persons over a continuum of care including acute hospital, office, institutional long term care, geropsychiatry, home care and rehabilitation.

2) Teaching and curriculum development in all settings relevant to geriatric care

3) Aging research in basic, clinical, epidemiologic or health policy investigations.

4) Health policy and the health care delivery systems relevant to the elderly, and intimate understanding of administrative issues in geriatrics program development.