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Geriatrics Fellowship

Fellowship Program

A one-year accredited clinical fellowship in Geriatric Medicine is available to family medicine and internal medicine residents who have satisfactorily completed their residency and are board eligible in their specialty of Family Medicine or Internal Medicine. Two positions are available and time of entrance is flexible, depending on the applicant. Rotational experiences include geriatric psychiatry, physical medicine and rehabilitation, geriatric consultation/concentrated LTC experience, special clinics (Pain, Orthopaedics, Urology, Neurology,) home care, hospice and an elective. Four weeks of vacation are also provided. Longitudinal experiences include Home Care, nursing home, and primary care clinic. Fellows must complete a limited research prior to finishing the fellowship.
 

Fellowship Experiences

Didactic

Half-day per week each – didactic, research, Journal Club

Longitudinal

Half-day per week-longitudinal nursing home experience
Half day per week longitudinal geriatric clinic

Block

Two months -- Physical Medicine and Rehab

Two months - Geriatric Psychiatry

One month Hospice
     Four weeks outpatient
     Four weeks inpatient

Two months -- inpatient geriatric consultation and specialty Clinics
      Four half days per week inpatient geriatric consultation                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 
      Four half-days per week subspecialty clinics

      Two half-days per week Orthopaedics

      One half-day per week Neurology

 

Two months – home care/subspecialty clinics
     Urology 
     Gynecology
     Multidisciplinary Geriatric Assessment Neurology

     Four half-days per week home care

Two months concentrated LTC (nursing home) experience
     One half-day per week LTC geriatric psychiatry
     Six half-days per week at at nursing home

One month -- vacation
 

Rotations

 To view a typical Geriatric Fellowship Rotation, click here. 
 

Application

To download an application form for the Geriatric Medicine Fellowship, click here.  The application should be mailed to:

Charles A. Cefalu MD, MS
Professor and Chief
Section of Geriatric Medicine
Dept of Medicine
Lyons Bldg, Suite D,
2020 Gravier St
NO, La. 70112

Tele: 504-495-2461
e-mail for correspondence: ccefal@lsuhsc.edu

For more information, contact Dr. Cefalu at (504) 568-4493 or ccefal@lsuhsc.edu.

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