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 We believe in offering a diverse curriculum that covers the spectrum of Geriatric Medicine through a “continuum of Care.” Our one year geriatric clinical experience will offer opportunities to manage elderly patients with a variety of medical problems in a wide array of settings from the acute inpatient hospital setting to the healthy elderly outpatient office visit. Fellows will also have the opportunity to make home visits to an individual’s home whether it be an assisted living facility, private home or in the Skilled Nursing Facility. In addition, fellows will be assigned to one of the Nursing Homes where they will follow a panel of patients as their primary care physician. This gives one a full appreciation of the continuum of care so often seen in Geriatric Medicine. At Stony Brook University and Northport VA, fellows provide both primary care and consultation services for the elderly patients in acute, ambulatory, community, and long term care settings in order to better understand the interaction of natural aging and disease on their daily functional state. Fellows will also learn techniques of assessment, therapy and management to improve or prolong your individual patient’s functional state.
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