The University of Connecticut School of Medicine Residency and Fellowship Programs

Geriatric Medicine Fellowship Program Clinical Curriculum


Year 1

1. Ambulatory geriatrics Day Hospital and home care (VA Connecticut Health Care System)
2. Teaching nursing home: long-term care (Hebrew Home and Hospital)
3. Teaching nursing home: sub-acute care, hospice and adult day care (McLean Home)
4. Rehabilitation Hospital (Hospital for Special Care)
5. Geropsychiatry in-patient and out-patient care (Masonic Home and Hospital)

Year 2

1. University Hospital in-patient Geriatrics Service (John Dempsey Hospital)
2. Teaching attending, Ambulatory geriatrics and home care (VA Connecticut Health Care System)
3. Research Project
4. Electives

All fellows spend 1/2 day weekly for two years providing primary care for a panel of elderly out-patients in the university-based Geriatrics Associates, P.C. When these patients need hospital care, they are admitted to the Geriatrics Service at the university hospital (JDH). Fellows are encouraged to select a second clinic site for longitudinal care in Year 1.

All fellows follow a small panel of nursing home patients at the Hebrew Home and Hospital in their second year for longitudinal care.