FD~AGE Physician Mini-Fellowships in Geriatrics



Physician Mini-Fellowships in Geriatrics

The Mini-Fellowships are 3 - 4 day intensive courses for non-geriatricians seeking training in geriatrics education and curriculum development. The Mini-Fellowships target clinician-educators and curriculum developers in internal medicine, family medicine, hospital medicine and other subspecialties. To view details about each school's unique Mini-Fellowship, click on the school name, below, and you will be taken to a description.

Duke University
Johns Hopkins
Mount Sinai School of Medicine
University of California, Los Angeles


Duke University
Duke's mini-fellowships focus on faculty development offering clinician educators a unique opportunity to learn from expert faculty in geriatrics at one of the nation's leading academic medical centers. The one-week programs are topic intensive highlighting current best practices and providing specific opportunities for participants to grow as educators and leaders. Themes include:
  • Teaching Evidence-based Medicine in Geriatrics
  • Palliative Care Curriculum Development
  • Long-Term Care Education
  • Medical Student Education in Geriatrics
  • Graduate Medical Education in Geriatrics
For more information click here or send an email to geri.education@duke.edu.

Johns Hopkins
At Johns Hopkins, the FD~AGE Mini-Fellowship Program targets specialists in specific areas. The three and a half day program provides didactic and experiential instruction in teaching techniques and instruction in critical geriatrics content areas, end-of-life care, quick functional assessment and effective transition of care for elderly patients. The targeted audience is surgical and medical subspecialists including:
  • Hospitalists
  • Internal Medicine
  • Emergency Room Physicians
  • General Surgeons
  • Orthopedic surgeons.
For more information click here or contact Laura Gibson at lcgibson@jhmi.edu.

Mount Sinai School of Medicine
The Mini-Fellowship at Mount Sinai is a tuition-free course and consists of three different offerings per year. The program offers career development to cultivate academic leaders with geriatric expertise in their disciplines: Teaching skills, Assessment strategies, Content or curriculum development, and Skills for leadership and academic success. Each Scholar will design a project that can impact the environment at the home institution and receive individualized support to implement it upon return.

Eligibility: Competitive application. Preference: academic medical center faculty, non-geriatricians, geriatric fellows, and board-certified geriatricians with no advanced training in medical educational, at an institution without Reynolds Foundation funding.

Mentorship: Each participant will be paired with 1 of 2 MSSM faculty mentors for at least six months. Mentors will review participants’ progress and provide follow-up.

For more information contact Kerry Feeney at kerry.feeney@mssm.edu or call 212-241-3624.

University of California, Los Angeles
The FD~AGE Mini-Fellowship Program at UCLA is a three-day intensive course that focuses on integrating geriatric content into the role of clinician-educator. It provides an innovative curriculum in medical education and advanced geriatrics teaching skills through experience, training and personal mentorship. The Mini-Fellowship Program at UCLA is divided into four specific tracks:
  • Generalist Track
  • Hospitalist Track
  • Skilled Nursing Facility Track
  • Palliative Care Track
For information contact Christy Ann Lau at christylau@mednet.ucla.edu or call 310-312-0531.