Our didactics curriculum offers a robust range of topics to give every trainee the opportunity to build a solid knowledge base, reflect on geriatric principles, integrate new approaches to patient care, and develop teaching and leadership skills.
Our Geriatric Fellow Didactics occur Friday afternoons, 1pm-4pm.
Additionally, fellows participate in our Geriatric Grand Rounds with our faculty Friday mornings, 8am-9am
The didactics contain core curriculum and multiple educational series throughout the year.
Here is an overview of the didactics schedule and curriculum:
- Summer Didactics:
- 1-week Geriatric Fellow Bootcamp
- Introduction to Penn and Philadelphia CMC-VA Medical Center (includes EMR training)
- Introduction to Geriatric clinical sites
- Community Tour of West/Southwest Philadelphia
- Introduction to Geriatric Assessment
- Introduction to virtual/asynchronous geriatric fellow learning
- Friday Didactics (Summer)
- Geriatric 5Ms introduction - Mind, Mobility, Medications, Multi-Complexity & Matters Most
- Community Resources (lead by Social Work staff)
- Fall/Winter/Spring Didactics—this will build off the geriatric fundamentals learned in the summer months
- Core Geriatric Assessment topics—Geriatric 5Ms and Geriatric Syndromes
- Geriatric Psychiatry Series
- Palliative Care/Communication Series
- Point of Care Ultrasound Series
- Leadership & Professionalism Series
- Teaching as a Fellow Series
- Wellness Series
- Board Review Series
- Site Visits—includes Low Vision Clinic, LTACH (Long Term Acute Care Hospital), Balance & Audiology Clinic, and local community senior housing/senior centers
- Fellow-led Series
- Alternative Media Journal Club
- Rapid Fire Journal Club (Best of Geriatrics Literature)
- Case Reports
Division of Geriatric Medicine Grand Rounds
Fridays, 8:00 AM – 9:00 AM
Our division is honored to have distinguished clinical, research, and thought leaders in the field of geriatrics present at our faculty grand rounds.
Here is just a sampling of past speakers and presentations:
| TITLE |
SPEAKER |
| Patient Priorities Care: Aligning Decision Making with What Matters Most to Patients |
Jennifer Outlet, MD, Co-Director of Internal Medicine Resident Education & Director of Interprofessional Education, Geriatric Medicine, Yale School of Medicine |
| Too Much? Too Little? Too Late? Heart Failure Care in the Elderly |
Daniel R. Schwartz, MD, Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine, University of Pennsylvania & Director, Heart Failure Program, Philadelphia VA Medical Center |
| Aging-in-Place in the Geriatrics Multi-verse |
Lee A. Lindquist, MD, MPH, MBA, Chief of Geriatrics, George M. Eisenberg Research Professor of Geriatric Medicine; James R. Webster Distinguished Physician in Geriatrics; Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine;
Director of Geriatrics Services, Northwestern Memorial Healthcare |
| Quality and Safety in the Nursing Home |
Rebecca T. Brown, MD, MPH, Associate Professor of Medicine (Geriatrics), Senior Fellow, Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics, Research Associate, Population Aging Research Center, Senior Fellow, Penn Center for Public Health |
We also encourage our fellows to participate in these regularly occurring conferences:
- Penn Memory Center Care Conference/Consensus Meeting (Mondays, 8:00 – 9:00 AM)
- Palliative Care Grand Rounds/Case Conference (Tuesdays virtually, 8:00 – 9:00 AM)
- GERI- A- FLOAT (GERIatrics Fellows Learning Online And Together)
National Conferences
Our fellows attend the American Geriatrics Society (AGS) Annual Scientific Meeting. They regularly submit and present case presentations and scholarly work. Past fellows have also attended American Academy of Home Care Medicine (AAHCM) and Society for Post-Acute and Long-Term Care (AMDA) meetings based on their interests.
