{"id":5864,"date":"2018-01-16T14:25:48","date_gmt":"2018-01-16T19:25:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/graduate-medical-education\/?page_id=5864"},"modified":"2025-08-08T10:38:38","modified_gmt":"2025-08-08T14:38:38","slug":"geriatric-medicine-fellowship","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/graduate-medical-education\/geriatric-medicine-fellowship\/","title":{"rendered":"Geriatric Medicine Fellowship"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"pl-5864\"  class=\"panel-layout\" ><div id=\"pg-5864-0\"  class=\"panel-grid panel-no-style\" ><div id=\"pgc-5864-0-0\"  class=\"panel-grid-cell\" ><div id=\"panel-5864-0-0-0\" class=\"widget_text so-panel widget widget_custom_html panel-first-child\" data-index=\"0\" ><div class=\"textwidget custom-html-widget\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"760\" height=\"415\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/hmN215MLPhA?si=LuG8qSrDeIgwOd8I\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div><\/div><div id=\"panel-5864-0-0-1\" class=\"so-panel widget widget_black-studio-tinymce widget_black_studio_tinymce panel-last-child\" data-index=\"1\" ><div class=\"textwidget\"><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/graduate-medical-education\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2025\/08\/ADGAP_Logo_227_227.jpg\" alt=\"ADGAP logo\" width=\"227\" height=\"227\" class=\"size-full wp-image-35442 aligncenter\" srcset=\"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/graduate-medical-education\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2025\/08\/ADGAP_Logo_227_227.jpg 227w, https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/graduate-medical-education\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2025\/08\/ADGAP_Logo_227_227-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 227px) 100vw, 227px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Since 1986 the UConn Geriatric Medicine Fellowship has trained internal medicine and family medicine graduates for leadership careers in geriatric medicine. The Center on Aging faculty includes 2 family medicine physicians certified in Geriatrics. One or two-year fellowship tracks are available. A second year of training allows candidates to focus on tracks in administration, teaching, research, or quality improvement and achieve C.M.D., M.P.H., or other qualifications.<\/p>\n<p>An experiential leadership skills course trains fellows in clinical program development, administration, teaching, or research supported by a $30 million aging research portfolio at the Center on Aging. Applicants may consider applying for a M.P.H. or M.Sc. in Clinical Research while completing their Geriatric Medicine fellowship.<\/p>\n<p>Past surveys of practicing physicians demonstrate that geriatricians are first or second in satisfaction with their careers versus all other specialties.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since 1986 the UConn Geriatric Medicine Fellowship has trained internal medicine and family medicine graduates for leadership careers in geriatric medicine. The Center on Aging faculty includes 2 family medicine physicians certified in Geriatrics. One or two-year fellowship tracks are available. A second year of training allows candidates to focus on tracks in administration, teaching, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-01 10:37:54","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/graduate-medical-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5864"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/graduate-medical-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/graduate-medical-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/graduate-medical-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/38"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/graduate-medical-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5864"}],"version-history":[{"count":31,"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/graduate-medical-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5864\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35444,"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/graduate-medical-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5864\/revisions\/35444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/graduate-medical-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}