The OU Geriatric Medicine fellowship offers an opportunity to learn and practice geriatric medicine in multiple care settings on the health science center campus. Major sites include the Oklahoma City VA Health Care System and OU Health. While here, fellows have longitudinal ambulatory geriatric care, skilled nursing, and long-term care responsibilities, in addition to significant clinical involvement in short-term rehabilitative care, home-based primary care, geriatric consultative care, and hospice & palliative medicine. Our educational curriculum offers a year-long fellows’ conference schedule which covers a comprehensive review of topics in Geriatric Medicine and Hospice & Palliative Medicine.
Fellows have clinical rotation blocks in specialties related to Geriatric Medicine including Neurology, Palliative Medicine, Geriatric Rehabilitation, Wound Care and Home-based Primary Care. Fellows also have the opportunity to focus on specific aspects of clinical geriatric care during their elective rotation.
Fellows participate in a call rotation schedule with back up attending faculty. Each fellow takes 13 weeks of call during the one-year fellowship. Fellows typically take calls from home.