About the Fellowship: Clinical Training: Outpatient Consultation and Comprehensive Assessment
The USF's Senior Health Services, one of the nation's first outpatient geriatric assessment clinics, provides multidisciplinary assessment of elderly men and women by geriatricians, geriatric nurse practitioners, geriatric psychiatrists, and social work.
- Patients referred locally, regionally and nationally by health care professionals and families for evaluation of multiple geriatric problems including:
- polypharmacy
- optimal management of medical conditions
- falls
- dementia
- depression
- functional decline
- social issues
Fellows evaluate and manage patients and families with the Attending physician, nurse and social worker team two half days a week.