Geriatric Training

• 2 year longitudinal nursing home experience with 2 patients in continuity at a local nursing home for each R2 & R3 FM resident.  Taught by board certified FM faculty in geriatrics.  On site teaching with each session on nursing home topics: dementia, pain management, wound care, sleep, nutrition and weight loss, etc.
• Monthly geriatric lectures on appropriate geriatric syndromes taught by board certified FM faculty: movement disorders, sexuality, incontinence, menopause, etc over 3 years.
• Extensive experience with the care of geriatric patients in your own continuity clinic as well as hospital rotations over the entire three years of residency.