The top-ranked geriatric medicine fellowship (subspecialty residency) program at Saint Louis University provides comprehensive exposure to the full range of practice settings and clinical scenarios seen in older adults, emphasizing clinical medicine and quality 改进.
Entrance into the program requires completing an Accreditation Council for Graduate 医学教育 (ACGME)-accredited residency program in internal medicine or family medicine. Successful completion of our program confers eligibility for certification 的附加资格 美国内科医学委员会 (ABIM)和 美国家庭医学委员会.
项目的亮点
Medical students and house staff from residency programs in internal medicine throughout the St. 我们的诊所和住院服务定期轮换. This 为我们的研究员提供极好的教学机会.
Our faculty members are known around the country and the world as leading experts 在老年研究、教学和护理方面. 我们的教师是国家 以及老年医学和长期护理的国际论坛.
Our research portfolio includes funded research in the basic science of Alzheimer's disease using a senescent mouse model, and quality 改进 studies of applying 老年急症护理原则，门诊护理和长期护理.
The division partners with the Gateway Geriatric Education Center (GEC) in providing community outreach and training that addresses caregiver support, dementia education and social isolation among rural and inner-city older adults through the $2.5 million 美国国立卫生研究院资助的老年劳动力教育项目.)团契受益于 the unique collaboration with the Geriatric Psychiatry fellowship headed by Dr. George Grossberg.
Our faculty members consistently present at conferences worldwide and participate on the boards of directors for national geriatrics organizations, including AMDA and AGS. Our faculty have leadership roles in the top professional journals in the field. 鼓励研究员参加审稿人和编辑培训.
Our fellowship includes a weekly one-hour boards review, topical didactics lecture, and a second-hour presentation, usually by outside experts for Geriatrics Grand Rounds. 该地区的老年病专家经常报名参加. 还有一个 monthly journal club presented by the fellows and hosted by the faculty in their homes 促进相互支持.
我们项目的主要优势
- Consistently listed as one of the top geriatrics programs in the country by U.S. News & 世界报道 自1998年以来.
- 强大的核心临床师资队伍一直被评为圣. Louis.
- Trainees experience a wide range of clinical care and physician leadership at various sites of care, including home care, assisted living, skilled nursing facility, office-based and hospital consultation, hospital trauma surgery comanagement, geriatric inpatient and outpatient psychiatry, inpatient rehabilitation at the VA, hospice and palliative care.
- Fellows become independent practitioners for the care of complex older adults by practicing 在严格的监督下.
- Our fellows have gone on to succeed in a variety of practice and leadership roles. Several have further specialized by qualifying in second disciplines including endocrinology, 血液肿瘤学、胃肠病学和卫生系统管理.
- Fellows care for longitudinal panels in outpatient, Assisted Living and LTC preparing 他们为独立的老年医学专业实践.
- Fellows must implement one quality-改进 project as fellows and are encouraged 在地方和国家会议上介绍QI和研究成果. 该部门支持 研究员在培训年度至少参加一次全国会议.
教育目标
The program ensures that by the end of the 12-month accredited training, our fellows 已经完成了他们的A.B.I.M. or A.A.F.P. 委员会认证考试并能实践 competently and independently in geriatric medicine and be eligible for the board 老年医学资格证书考试.
他将通过以下方式实现这一目标:
- Serving as the primary care provider for patients seen in continuity settings.
- Consulting or co-managing geriatric medicine patients in the acute care setting.
- 管理亚急性和长期护理环境中的患者.
- 执行老年医学咨询在整个频谱的敏锐度.
- Managing geriatric psychiatry, rehabilitation and hospice/palliative care conditions.
- Performing the components of a comprehensive geriatric medicine assessment and determinations 必要时的决策能力.
一般资料及好处
研究员从星期一到星期五按预定的轮班工作. 周末医院的研究员 call only when on the hospital consult service and in-patient geriatric psychiatry rotation.
Night call consists of telephone coverage from home for outpatients and nursing facilities from 7 p.m. to 7 a.m. 在常规的教师轮岗中. 研究员将支付平均水平 每周晚上不超过一次电话，每月周末不超过一次电话. 随叫随到， 研究员们有主治医生的后援.
Benefits
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我们为研究员提供的额外福利包括:
- Support to attend one of two geriatrics conferences during their training year, including the Future's Program at the annual meeting of AMDA - The Society for Post-Acute and 长期护理医学.
- Free membership to AMDA and discounted membership to the American Geriatrics Society.
- Office in the medical school building equipped with personal computers, a variety 老年病文献和老年病评论教学大纲.
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我们工作的地方
- SSM健康博彩网址大全医院
- 博彩网址大全Care老年医学诊所
- 约翰·科克伦和杰斐逊军营圣路易斯医疗保健系统
- 马里兰高地医疗保健中心
- NHC保健湖街. 查尔斯独立和辅助生活设施
- 圣生命护理中心. Louis
- We also provide medical services to several retirement communities, both private and 那些由圣. Louis