Thank you for your interest in Oakwood Healthcare System’s Geriatric Fellowship.  We offer an ACGME approved one-year comprehensive fellowship that leads to certification in geriatric medicine.  Applicants must have successfully completed a residency in either Internal Medicine or Family Practice.

Apply to the Geriatric Fellowship program.

Training takes place in a collegial atmosphere where the emphasis is always centered on patient care and teaching.  We pride ourselves on a friendly academic atmosphere where our commitment is to train the highest quality physicians.  To this end we offer dedicated weekly conferences where there are no conflicts with patient care.  Our conferences include ongoing lectures that highlight the core geriatric curriculum, geriatric pattern recognition, weekly board review sessions, clinicopathological conferences and biweekly journal clubs.  Fellows, on average, work 50-60 hours per week. 

The hub of the fellowship is Oakwood Hospital & Medical Center, the flagship hospital of the Oakwood Healthcare System.  Located in Dearborn, Michigan, the home of the Ford auto industry, Oakwood Hospital & Medical Center offers a unique cultural opportunity with fine restaurants, theatre, major sports teams, and the sports opportunities that come from having the great lakes, the largest freshwater lakes in the world, nearby.   Ann Arbor and Detroit are both a short drive away.

Fellows spend their time at the main hospital and at the Wellness Center, a beautiful office site located at Oakwood Common, a retirement site with independent and assisted living sites as well as a skilled nursing facility.  Outpatient rotations follow the ACGME  and AGS guidelines and include advanced rotations in neurology, psychiatry, physiatry, sleep medicine, urology, research, pharmacology, etc. and focus on unique geriatric syndromes as well as atypical presentations of disease in the elderly.  

The goal of the fellowship is to educate and train specialists in Geriatric Medicine who are experts in the diverse presentations and unique problems of the elderly, who can practice comfortably in diverse environments including hospital, ambulatory and skilled nursing facility settings.  Training follows the recommendations of the ACGME as well as the AGS and includes the geriatric syndromes, physiology of aging, regulatory and reimbursement issues, the differing ways that disease presents in the elderly as compared with the young, study design and statistics for research or quality improvement.