Integrated Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine Fellowship
Our two-year program integrates training for the core competencies in geriatrics and palliative medicine as well as expertise in research skills and evaluation/assessment techniques. The first 16 months of the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education-approved fellowship focuses on training and the following eight months emphasizes professional development, be it clinical research, basic research, administration, or public policy. We accept 7 to 10 fellows each year.
As a fellow, you spend at least 8 of the 13 blocks on clinical rotations. You will perform rotations across the Mount Sinai Health System hospitals in the geriatric consult service, palliative medicine consult service, Wiener Family Palliative Care Unit, Mobile Acute Care for the Elderly team, co-management hospital service, supportive oncology, geriatric psychology, continuity care service, and Mount Sinai Visiting Doctors (or-Mount Sinai at Home), as well as the James J. Peters Veterans Administration Medical Center, VNS Health (formerly VNSNY), and the New Jewish Home.
You can spend the other five blocks of time on scholarly activities, electives, and research. You attend the department’s academic half-day each week, which includes journal club, morbidity and mortality conferences, Ambulatory Case Conference, career development workshops, sessions on research techniques, and pedagogy on curriculum development.
The first few months involve formal didactics on functioning within a team and running team meetings. Ongoing opportunities include monthly interdisciplinary discussions of clinical questions raised by outpatient encounters; participation in GeriTalk; staff development retreats; and the Palliative and End of Life Care course, a national program.
For more information, visit the website Integrated Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine Fellowship | Icahn School of Medicine (mssm.edu).
Geriatrics Fellowship
Our mission is to develop geriatricians who become leaders in academic and clinical geriatrics and to enable graduates to obtain certification in geriatric medicine by the American Board of Internal Medicine or the American Board of Family Practice. Our one- or two-year program trains an average of eight physicians each year. Our graduates have a 100 percent pass rate on the American Board of Internal Medicine Geriatric Certifying exam. For more information, visit the website Our mission is to develop geriatricians who become leaders in academic and clinical geriatrics and to enable graduates to obtain certification in geriatric medicine by the American Board of Internal Medicine or the American Board of Family Practice. Our one- or two-year program trains an average of eight physicians each year. Our graduates have a 100 percent pass rate on the American Board of Internal Medicine Geriatric Certifying exam.
For more information, visit the website https://icahn.mssm.edu/education/residencies-fellowships/list/geriatrics-fellowship.
Geriatrics Leadership (LEAP) Fellowship
The Brookdale Department of Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine at Mount Sinai has recognized the need for geriatrics leaders to address system level change. We have assessed the educational requirements to create those leaders and launched our new fellowship track: LEAP into Geriatrics Leadership – Learn, Educate, Advocate, and Promote. The goal for our LEAP Fellowship is to give graduates the core set of geriatrics knowledge and leadership skills to lead hospitals, health systems, and quality improvement programs, as well as to assume leadership positions with payer organizations.
For more information, visit the website https://icahn.mssm.edu/education/residencies-fellowships/list/leap-geriatrics-leadership.
Hospice and Palliative Medicine (HPM) Fellowship
The Lilian and Benjamin Hertzberg Palliative Care Institute at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai offers a one-year fellowship to train academic leaders in palliative medicine. The goal of the fellowship is to create a new generation of palliative care educators, role models, and clinicians who will lead the improvement of care for patients with serious illness and their families. We also offer opportunities for a second research-focused fellowship year to select candidates seeking to pursue careers as clinician investigators.
Through clinical training and a rigorous core curriculum, our palliative medicine fellows develop expertise in assessing and managing the physical, psychological, and spiritual suffering faced by patients with life-limiting illnesses and their families. As a fellow, you are exposed to a broad array of care settings, including acute care at Mount Sinai Hospital and Mount Sinai Beth Israel, outpatient palliative care, home-based palliative care and hospice, and long-term care. Throughout all of your clinical training settings, you work closely with a variety of mentors and interdisciplinary teams and develop skills in both primary and consultative practice. In addition to the clinical experiences, you also participate in a comprehensive longitudinal core curriculum that offers a breadth of high-quality palliative care didactics and education, intensive communication training (GeriTalk), quality improvement, and research and teaching skills training.
For more information, visit the HPM website https://icahn.mssm.edu/education/residencies-fellowships/list/hospice-and-palliative-medicine-fellowship.