Our curriculum is based on the Geriatric Entrustable Professional Activities and Competencies. Training venues and activities are selected to provide fellows varied experiences in which to practice and learn the EPAs. Faculty support fellows in graduated levels of responsibility and use assessment instruments to structure evaluations of fellows and provide feedback.
Our program provides diverse interprofessional training environments and structured curricula.
Geriatrics is the classic team sport and essentially all training environments engage fellows in team care. For example, the outpatient continuity, consult and comprehensive assessment clinics are conducted in our geriatric patient-centered medical home and the home care experience is within the VA Home Based Primary Care program.
Our program fosters leadership skills:
Fellows complete team Strategies and Tools to Enhance Performance and Patient Safety (STEPPS).
The curriculum and experience in long-term care contain leadership training for medical directors. Fellows receive training and complete projects using plan-do-study-act cycles for practice improvement in outpatient and long-term care settings.
Fellows also are provided a variety of opportunities to participate in research and writing.
The fellow’s core clinical rotations include; Outpatient Primary Care, Home-Based Primary Care, Geriatric Assessment Clinic, Geriatric Evaluation Management Clinic, Post-Acute and Long-Term Care, Inpatient Palliative Consults, Inpatient Geriatric Consults, Neurology (Memory Disorders), Geriatrics Psychiatry. The fellows will also spend time with Omaha local Program for All Inclusive Care of the Elderly (PACE).
The fellows will also have meaningful clinical experiences with other specialties including; Physiatry, Urology/ Urogynecology, Wound Care, Dermatology, and Osteoporosis.
The fellowship program utilizes the Geriatric Review Syllabus textbook as it core didactic curriculum. The core didactics consist of roughly 60 topics ranging from current issues in aging, geriatric diseases and disorders, to approaches to patient care, and care systems. Our faculty also present a series on medical direction and a series on quality improvement.
Fellows are required to attend weekly informal case conferences, monthly journal club, and, quarterly research conferences.
Fellows who are interested in research will have the opportunity to attend the annual UNMC clinical research symposium.
We encourage those interested in pursuing a career in medical direction to review the details and requirements of the Mentored Certified Medical Director Program.The fellowship program offers some financial support for those who decide to participate.
