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Geriatrics
The Geriatrics Fellowship Program at Wilson Medical Center strives to provide you with the best training available to provide first-rate Geriatric care. The structured, one-year curriculum is designed with flexibility in mind, offering you a combination of focused training and a comfortable lifestyle. If you are a dedicated physician who works well in teams, possesses exceptional organizational skills and knowledge base and who is committed to offering your patients the best possible treatment with a compassionate approach, then the Wilson Geriatrics Fellowship is the place for you.
Fellows at Wilson will receive a full scope of training experiences through a variety of facilities and patient care settings. In addition, each fellow will serve as a Clinical Assistant Instructor for Upstate Medical University and work with students from Upstate as well as numerous other schools from around the country. Fellows also serve as a primary source of Geriatric consultation for all of Wilson Medical Center’s residency programs.
MEET THE RESIDENTS!
Participating Facilities and Organizations
Selected Faculty
James Crosby, MD – Program Director
James Della Valle, MD – ABFP, ABEM, Geriatrics Certified
Phillip Dzwonczyk, MD – ABIM, Geriatrics Certified
Bryan Goddard, MD – ABFP
Christopher Ryan, MD – ABFP
Jerold Schwartz, MD – ABIM, Geriatrics Certified
Richard Terry, DO – ABFP, ACOFP
Carol Sherer, MSW
Mickey McCabe, MSW
Curriculum
| Training Type |
Description |
% of Time |
| Nursing Home |
Ideal and Vestal Senior Living Centers |
20% |
| Geriatric Outpatient Care |
Full spectrum Geriatric outpatient care in various locations |
20% |
| Subspecialty Experiences |
Office preceptorships, agency interaction self-study, neurology, endocrinology, rheumatology, end-of-life/palliative care, dementia, gero-psych, administrative med. |
20% |
| Geriatric Inpatient Care |
Follow own patients into inpatient setting and provide support to residency programs |
10% |
| Primary Outpatient Care |
Full spectrum general outpatient care in various locations |
10% |
| Scholarly Activity |
Academic study or project |
10% |
| Home Care |
Follow selected patients who are home-bound or require home care |
5% |
| Didactic Curriculum |
Includes weekly case and topic review with faculty, American Geriatrics Society Core Syllabus and annual meeting, local Geriatrics Scholar Course and courses at the Gerontology Institute of Ithaca, NY |
5% |
Application Requirements
Applicants to the Wilson Geriatrics Fellowship should have completed or be completing a residency in Family Medicine of Internal Medicine from an ACGME accredited program. Applications to the Geriatric Medicine Fellowship Program should be submitted using ERAS.
Applications should be sent to the following no later than November 15th:
Wilson Geriatrics Fellowship Program
Office of Medical Education
Wilson Medical Center
33-57 Harrison Street
Johnson City, New York 13790
FOR MORE INFORMATION, EMAIL US AT medical_education@uhs.org |
