The Herbert R. Karp Fellowship in Geriatric Medicine

Holland and Karp
Caption:(L to R) Drs. Herbert R. Karp, our founding Division Director and N. Wilson Holland.  Dr. Holland was the Division's first Geriatric Fellow, and now the Fellowship Director.

Geriatric Medicine Fellowship Training:

Geriatric Medicine Fellowship training is available to physicians who have completed three years of Family Medicine or Internal Medicine residency training in the United States. Upon successful completion of a one-year clinical Geriatric Medicine track, all Geriatric Medicine Fellows are eligible to sit for the Certificate of Added Qualifications (CAQ) in Geriatrics of the ABIM/ABFP.

Emory Geriatric Medicine Fellows attend weekly Geriatric Medicine core curriculum classes offered weekly during the first three months of fellowship training. The purpose of these training sessions is twofold:

  • to educate and update all new fellows on the basic principles of geriatric medical care
  • to provide educational resources (lectures, lesson plans, learning objectives, handouts, journal articles, etc) to support the geriatric medicine fellows' teaching responsibilities (training staff, students and residents at their respective rotation sites).

Emory Geriatric Medicine Fellows attend all required didactic activities (Journal Club, Geriatric Medicine Seminars, Long Term Care Teaching Rounds, Bedside Teaching Rounds, Interdisciplinary Case Conferences, Resident Roundtables, Medicine Grand Rounds and Core Lectures).

Areas of Clinical Training:

Nursing Home Care

Longitudinal Nursing Home Care: Emory Geriatric Medicine Fellows are assigned a panel of patients at one of four affiliated nursing homes to be followed for the duration of the fellowship.

Long Term Care Rotation: Emory Geriatric Medicine Fellows receive training in the medical administration of Long Term Care facilities and in the primary care of patients in nursing homes at all levels of nursing home care.

Weekend Call:  Emory Geriatric Medicine Fellows cover weekend phone call, round one .5 days in the VA Community Living Center (CLC), and cover admissions to AG Rhodes/Budd Terrace Nursing Homes approximately once every six weeks.Weekend Call:

Geriatric Assessment and Management
Emory Geriatric Medicine Fellows receive training in the principles of medical, functional, and psychosocial assessment and management of older adults in the hospital, outpatient clinic, home, and nursing home.

Inpatient and Consult Service
Emory Geriatric Medicine Fellows receive training in the care of acutely ill geriatric medical patients and providing geriatric consults for patients on other services in a hospital setting.

Longitudinal Ambulatory Care
Emory Geriatric Medicine Fellows are assigned a panel of patients and are the primary care physician in an outpatient setting under the supervision of a clinical preceptor.

Geriatric Psychiatry
Emory Geriatric Medicine Fellows receive training in the diagnosis and management of psychiatric problems in the elderly.

Palliative Care/ Hospice

Emory Geriatric Medicine Fellows receive training in palliative care and hospice in both the inpatient and outpatient settings.

Research Program
Emory Geriatric Medicine Fellows attend monthly Medicine research seminars and participate in all training activities of the Southeast Center of Excellence in Geriatric Medicine.

  • Quarterly Research seminars are held every 3 months throughout the training year:
    • These four SCEGM seminars are required training activities. Two are held at UAB in Birmingham and two are held at Emory.
    • The first seminar of the training year is usually at UAB in August. We all meet in the parking lot of the Wesley Woods Health Center on Wednesday to board the van to Birmingham (about a 2 hour drive). We then spend the night in a Birmingham hotel.
    • When we arrive at the hotel in Birmingham, we will check in and then have an informal dinner with our UAB colleagues. We share rooms (2 Emory GMF's of the same gender/room) that are paid through the SCEGM.
    • The training activities usually start with Breakfast at 8am and continue through the day until about 2:30 PM when we board the bus to return to Atlanta.  

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