Geriatrics
The Geriatrics Fellowship Program at UHS Wilson Medical Center, established in 2005, is fully accredited, sponsored by the Family Medicine Residency with close links to the Internal Medicine Residency. The structured, one-year curriculum is designed with flexibility in mind, offering you a combination of focused training and a comfortable lifestyle. If you are a dedicated physician who works well in teams, possesses exceptional organizational skills and knowledge base and who is committed to offering your patients the best possible treatment with a compassionate approach, then our Geriatrics Fellowship is the place for you.
Fellows receive a full scope of training experiences through a variety of facilities and patient care settings. Each fellow will serve as a Clinical Assistant Instructor for Upstate Medical University and work with students from Upstate as well as numerous other schools from around the country. Fellows also serve as a primary source of Geriatric consultation for all of UHS Wilson Medical Center's residency programs.
Affiliation with Upstate Medical University Medical School, New York College of Osteopathic Medicine and the Columbia University Stroud Center Statewide Psychiatry Fellowship Program.
Highlights:
- Structured, one-year program that is flexible to individual professional and personal goals.
- 1-2 fellows per year.
- Primary hospital is a high-tech, regional referral and trauma center.
- An extensive and diverse patient population.
- Solid, well-established base residency programs.
- Two full service nursing homes integrated into the program.
- Didactic conferences including weekly conferences and Grand Rounds, specialty teaching days and a community-wide geriatric scholar course.
- Fellows serve as primary source of geriatric consultations in the community.
- Strong behavioral science component with weekly clinical and teaching interactions with the Columbia University geri-psych fellows and faculty.
- Affiliation with Binghamton University School of Nursing Elder Services.
- Limited on-call.
Program Goals
Graduate physicians who are competent to:
- Provide quality, "best-practice" geriatric primary care.
- Serve at an expert, consultant level for selected complex and problematic patients, in and out of the hospital.
- Be a medical director of a long-term care institution.
- Give expert advice to organizations regarding system and patient-specific issues pertaining to geriatrics.
- Teach the geriatrics curriculum of an Internal or Family Medicine Residency.
Participating Facilities, Organizations
- UHS Wilson Medical Center and UHS Binghamton General Hospital - two community hospitals
- UHS Senior Living at Ideal
- Bridgewater Center for Rehabilitation & Nursing
- UHS Primary Care Johnson City
- UHS Medical Group
- Neuro Medical Care Associates
- UHS Home Care
