Geriatrics Pathway
The Geriatrics Pathway provides our residents with a unique opportunity to enhance their residency training with additional and individualized experiences and skill training in providing care for older adults.
Geriatrics is a growing field in the United States and knowledge of the unique challenges facing care for this population will help future physicians optimize the quality of care for older adults.
In addition to enhanced and varied clinical exposure, participation in the Geriatrics Pathway helps develop leadership, teamwork, and innovation skills that make residents strong candidates for fellowship.
Residents in the Geriatrics Pathway can customize a longitudinal curriculum tailor-fit to their career goals.
Clinical Experiences
Our program provides a range of clinical experiences to include:
- Acute Geriatric Care (inpatient geriatric service)
- Geriatric Consult Service
- Home Based Primary Care
- Rehab and Recovery Management
- Long-Term Care Facility
- Geriatric Medicine Continuity Clinic
- Palliative Medicine
- Rheumatology
- Geri-Psych
- Interdisciplinary Teamwork
Tailored Opportunities
In addition to a wide variety of electives, residents also benefit from the following:
- Semi-annual meetings with geriatrics and medicine faculty to customize curriculum
- Mentorship pairing in the first year
- Weekly geriatric conferences, including journal club, with fellows and faculty
- Research and/or quality improvemeny on a variety of topics including frailty, polypharmacy, and the biology of aging
- Optional leadership participation in a national chapter of the American Geriatrics Society
Pathway Director
462 Grider Street Buffalo, NY 14215
Phone: 716-898-3000; Fax: 716-898-3000
Email: zbwikerd@buffalo.edu
Eligibility
Interested PGY-1 and PGY-2 residents are welcome to apply!
Current Residents
Stephen Kotopka, MD