Fellowship Training Programs
The Fellowship Training Program in Geriatric Medicine and Gerontology at Johns Hopkins has continuously trained fellows since its establishment in 1983. More than 100 physicians have enrolled in this training program during the last 20 years. The Training Program is fully accredited and especially designed for training physicians for academic careers. The available training programs are:
Clinical and Leadership Fellowship
Interdisciplinary Clinician-Educator Fellowship
Clinical and Research Fellowship
Clinical Investigator Pathway Fellowship
Johns Hopkins/Gerontology Research Center, NIA, NIH Joint Research and Clinical Fellowship
Master of Health Sciences Program
Typically, three to five fellows join the Division each year and most stay for two to three years of training. Clinical work in geriatrics is performed at the Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center, Johns Hopkins Geriatrics Center, and Johns Hopkins Hospital in the first year of the program. Fellows are exposed to a rich variety of ongoing clinical programs, including an acute geriatrics service, inpatient geriatrics consultation service, physician housecall program, comprehensive nursing home, chronic hospital unit, chronic ventilator unit, CARF-accredited geriatrics rehabilitation unit, adult day care center, PACE (Program for All-inclusive Care for the Elderly) site, urinary continence clinic, geropsychiatric assessment services, and ambulatory primary care and consultative clinics. Extensive experience will also be gained during the Fellowship in the instruction of medical students and medical residents of the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.
Clinical and Research Fellows, Research Fellows, Clinical Investigator Pathway Fellows and NIA-Hopkins Fellows are expected to develop a research program during their training period. Faculty members from the Division of Geriatric Medicine and Gerontology, the Johns Hopkins Center on Aging and Health, as well as from other programs within the University and the NIA Gerontology Research Center are identified to provide mentorship. The Division is well supported by external research grants and General Clinical Research Centers that are located on the Johns Hopkins Bayview and Johns Hopkins Hospital Campuses. There is a broad range of research interests in the Division related to the elderly, including, for example, the clinical and biological aspects of diabetes, obesity, and bone disease; infectious diseases; immunology and vaccine development; Alzheimer’s disease; nutrition; epidemiological, clinical, and molecular studies of frailty; and pressure sores; as well as projects in preventive geriatrics, epidemiology, health services research, new forms of health care delivery, and ethical issues. Opportunities also exist for training in epidemiology, biostatistics and health policy in the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health. Additionally, there are numerous opportunities for collaboration with the more than 50 scientists at the Gerontology Research Center of the National Institute on Aging, the home of the Baltimore Longitudinal Study on Aging, which is located on the campus of the Johns Hopkins Bayview Campus.
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For more information or assistance with applying for a fellowship position, please contact:
Medical Education and Training Office
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Division of Geriatric Medicine and Gerontology
John R. Burton Pavilion
5505 Hopkins Bayview Circle
Baltimore, MD 21224
(410) 550-3268; Fax (410) 550-2116
e-mail address: lcgibson@jhmi.edu
