Fellowship Programs

Sample Schedules

These are sample schedules only. There is considerable flexibility in the actual scheduling.

Year One

• Acute Care for the Edlerly (ACE Unit at Yale-New Haven Hospital)
• Geriatric Consult Service (VAMC)
• Geriatric Psychiatry
• VA Home Care
• Inpatient and Outpatient Hospice
• Community Nursing Home
• Community Geriatrics (Private Practice)
• Longitudinal Experience in the Adler Geriatric Assessment Center, VA Geriatric Clinic, Home Care Program, and Comunity-based Nursing Home

Year Two (Clinical Educator Track)

• Description in progress

Year Two (First Year Clinical Research)

• Methods of Clinical Research course
• Formulate qesearch question, hypotheses and outline
• Implement research project:
  • Detailed protocol
  • Begin data collection
• Longitudinal experience (continued)

Year Three (Second Year Clinical Research)

• Additional courses through the Investigative Medicine Program and the School of Public Health
• Complete research project:
  • Complete data collection
  • Intensive data analysis
  • Preparation of manuscript
• Grant Writing
• Longitudinal experience (continued)