Established in 1984, the Fellowship Program in Geriatric Medicine of the Department of Internal Medicine is coordinated by the Huffington Center on Aging at Baylor College of Medicine. It is a fully accredited, one-year program for physicians designed to develop leadership skills for successful academic careers as clinicians, investigators, educators, and administrators in geriatrics. Fellows may opt for, and are encouraged to do, a second year of research or additional training in one of our tracks.  The Geriatric Fellowship Program at Baylor College of Medicine is unique in providing individualized tracks in accordance to the fellow’s career interest.  Each fellow is assigned a mentorship team and goes through quaterly evaluations and guidance meetings with their mentors.  The current tracks are clinical or basic science research, long-term care, wound care, palliative care, bioterrorism and MPH.

The exceptional resources of the Baylor College of Medicine and its affiliated institutions provide exposure to a wide variety of faculty, clinical training sites, research, and teaching opportunities. The Fellowship Program offers a broad range of clinical training experiences in diversified sites. In addition to required rotations in medicine, long-term care, geropsychiatry, medical directorship, rehabilitation medicine and hospice, rotations in neurology, dermatology, urology and orthopaedic surgery are also provided as electives. Development of a clinical or educational research project is an integral part of the Fellowship Program.

Our 60 program graduates have taken their positions in top clinical care programs and in some of the nation's leading academic health centers; e.g., our second fellow back in 1985, George E. Taffet, M.D., assumed the post of Chief, Section of Geriatrics, Department of Medicine, here at Baylor on July 1, 2002.

Five new fellows began in July 2007: They are Latha Archibold, MD, Edmundo Rodriguez-Frias, MD, Adel Ibrahim, MD, Lubna Javed, MD, and Sabryna Paré-Monderson, MD.

For information on how you can apply for this program, contact Elisabeth Pous, Geriatric Fellowship Program Coordinator, at epous@bcm.edu or call her at 713-794-7153; her fax is 713-794-8875; the mailing address is Baylor College of Medicine, One Baylor Plaza, MS 230, Houston, TX 77030. You can apply online by clicking on the application link below.

As Director of the Program, I can attest to it being an excellent one: I, too, am a graduate. Ms. Pous and I look forward to hearing from you.

Aimée D. Garcia, M.D.
Director, Geriatrics Fellowship
Baylor College of Medicine
Huffington Center on Aging
One Baylor Plaza, M320
Houston, TX 77030-3498

e-mail: aimeeg@bcm.edu

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