Geriatric Medicine Fellowship Information

The University of Texas Health Science Center and Audie Murphy Veterans Affairs Medical Center offer one and two-year Geriatric Medicine fellowships. The fully accredited program is primarily designed to prepare leaders for careers in academic geriatrics and clinical geriatrics.

Fellowships are jointly sponsored by the Department of Internal Medicine, the Department of Family & Community Medicine of the University of Texas Health Science Center and the Audie Murphy Veterans Affairs Medical Center. The integrated program shares a common core of clinical, educational, and research activities. Graduate work towards a Masters in Clinical Science is also available.

The clinical core curriculum includes participation in both community-based and VA-based continuity clinics, an outpatient evaluation unit, a geriatric consultation service, on-site and community-based nursing home, home care, and hospice programs.

In addition to enhancing their more traditional diagnostic and treatment skills, the fellow will develop competence as a teacher, teaching internal medicine residents family medicine residents, gynecology residents, podiatry residents, medical students, and other health care professionals.

Fellows develop research skills and are expected to design, conduct, analyze, and present a research project at the American Geriatrics Society annual meeting. Fellows have the opportunity to work with a large and varied group of faculty from the sponsoring departments as well as many other sub specialists on campus.

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Special Features of the Geriatric Fellowship Program

Due to ongoing support of the John A. Hartford Center significant salary support is available to incoming fellows.  These include:

• Salary Stipend in Year 1 (Total Salary of $43,000)

•Additional Stipend Support For Year 2 Fellows available July 1 of the training year.

•Opportunity for Year 3 Training and additional stipend support available July 1 of the training year.