Geriatric Psychiatry Fellowship Columbia - Curriculum
Geriatric psychiatry educational experiences
The Prisma Health/University of South Carolina School of Medicine Columbia Geriatric Psychiatry Fellowship Program is a one-year, post-residency clinical track program offering two positions each year. The program offers excellent training in the comprehensive evaluation and management of older adults in inpatient, longitudinal outpatient, integrated care and nursing home settings.
Fellows rotate on a dedicated geriatric psychiatry inpatient unit and geriatric consultation liaison service. A robust and multifaceted didactic curriculum is presented by board-certified geriatric psychiatry faculty, as well as faculty from geriatric medicine, neurology, sleep medicine and neuropsychology. Our fellows receive exemplary training in multidisciplinary clinical care settings.
Training sites
Our fellows gain valuable experience in providing geriatric psychiatry consultation and treatment services across academic, public, private, and long-term care clinical settings. Training sites include:
- Prisma Health Baptist Hospital: State-of-the-art medical center that provides a comprehensive continuum of mental health services for children, adults, and seniors. Geriatric psychiatry fellowship experiences include Geriatric Psychiatry Consultation-Liaison and Electroconvulsive Therapy (ECT).
- SC Department of Mental Health Bryan Psychiatric Hospital: State-funded inpatient psychiatric treatment facility. Clinical services are provided in inpatient geriatric psychiatry.
- C.M. Tucker Nursing Care Center: Long term care center operated by the South Carolina Department of Mental Health. Geriatric psychiatry fellow experiences includes consultative management and learning about nursing home administration.
- Senior Primary Care Practice: Patient Centered Medical Home Geriatric Medicine Clinic where fellows gain clinical experience in providing geriatric psychiatry assessment and management services within a co-located/integrated primary care setting.
- Columbia VA Health Care System: Provides mental health services to veterans in South Carolina. Geriatric Psychiatry clinical experiences include geriatric consultation liaison evaluation and management.
Overview of rotations
- Geriatric psychiatry inpatient.
- Geriatric psychiatry consultation-liaison.
- Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT).
- Geriatric psychiatry fellows’ clinic outpatient continuity care.
- Sleep medicine.
- Integrated care geriatric psychiatry.
- Nursing home administration.
- Nursing home consultation (public).
- Nursing home consultation (private).
- Hospice and palliative care.
- Protected research time.
- Neurology outpatient clinic.
Clinical teaching
- Direct supervision and teaching by attending faculty on all rotations at all clinical sites.
- Weekly individual supervision.
Didactics and conferences
- Didactics: Wednesday afternoons.
- Interdisciplinary case conferences: Quarterly (includes geriatric psychiatry, general psychiatry and geriatric medicine).
- Geriatric psychiatry grand rounds.
- Journal club.