The Geriatric Medicine Fellowship offers a one-year, individualized training program designed to align with each fellow's career goals. With rotations across diverse settings such as Hospice/Palliative Care, Neurology, and Long Term Care fellows are immersed in a collaborative environment that prepares them to excel in the specialized field of geriatric medicine.
About the Program
Director: James Lamb, M.D.
The Geriatric Medicine Fellowship Program offered by the Wright State University Boonshoft School of Medicine Department of Geriatrics is uniquely structured to maximize individualized and one on one educational opportunities, while encouraging fellows to guide the training experience to meet their future practice goals. Our one-year fellowship is comprised of 13 block rotations (four weeks each) with rotations in Hospice/Palliative Care, Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Long Term Care/Medical Direction, Neurology, Women’s Health, Geriatric Psychiatry and Elective/Research. From these rotations, fellows can identify specific areas where they would like to concentrate additional time. In addition to these core rotations, longitudinal care in skilled nursing facilities, home visits, outpatient clinic, and Senior Assessment Geriatric Evaluations, are built into the weekly schedule. Our main training sites are Miami Valley Hospital, Hospice of Dayton, and the Dayton VA Medical Center.
The Wright State Department of Geriatrics leads a dynamic and forward thinking interprofessional team of clinicians and affiliated professionals with diverse expertise in the care of older adults. This team consists of geriatricians, resident physicians and fellows, nurse practitioners, community health and social workers, researchers, pharmacists, as well as community organization leaders from the local Alzheimer’s Association, Adult Protective Services and the Area Agency on Aging. The team meets on a weekly basis in addition to weekly education sessions to provide our faculty and learners an outstanding opportunity to learn from this vast wealth of experience and dedication.
Our Mission
To provide the highest quality of care to older adults in our community while training future healthcare professionals in that standard of excellence.
Our Vision
For today’s students, residents, and fellows to become tomorrow’s leaders in primary and specialized care for older adults.
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Application Process and Criteria
ACGME #: 1253831072
The Geriatric Medicine Fellowship is a one-year clinical training program for physicians who are board certified or board eligible from an Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education-approved internal medicine or family medicine residency. Two fellows are accepted annually through the National Residency Matching Program (NRMP), and are expected to start July 1; however, accommodations for off-cycle trainees will be considered. Only electronic applications are accepted via the Electronic Resident Application System (ERAS). You will need to provide:
- Curriculum vitae
- Personal statement
- Three letters of recommendation, including one from a program director
- Official transcripts from your medical school
Division of Geriatrics
The Division of Geriatrics at Wright State University’s Boonshoft School of Medicine is dedicated to enhancing care for older adults across all settings. Our department focuses on comprehensive geriatric and palliative care, offering fellowship training, integrating geriatric principles into medical curricula, and conducting research to improve long-term care and caregiver support.
Creating a vision for care of the older adult has been part of the Boonshoft School of Medicine’s mission since its inception. This vision was focused more sharply in 2006 with the creation of the Department of Geriatrics, the result of a community collaboration that included Premier Health Partners, the Dayton VA Medical Center, and the Oscar Boonshoft family. Now, the department works collaboratively with the school’s other departments, affiliated hospitals, and many area agencies and organizations to promote comprehensive geriatric care across all settings to provide Geriatric Fellowship training. Department faculty also work with faculty from other departments to incorporate the principles of geriatric medicine into the medical school's basic and clinical science curricula and participate in the education of Family Medicine and Internal Medicine residents.
Current research activities include interprofessional work on falls, delirium, and dementia, as well as long-term care of frail older adults and caregiver advocacy. A major research goal for the department is the study of interventions and models of care that will allow older adults in the Miami Valley to remain safely in their homes for as long as possible.
The Department of Geriatrics will not be recruiting fellows for the 2025–2026 academic year. Our goal is to recruit additional faculty and appropriate training sites to establish a high-quality training program for the 2026–2027 academic year.
About Geriatrics
By the year 2030, the population of people over age 65 in the United States is estimated to reach approximately 72 million, nearly double what it is today. Medical schools must prepare students to care for older adults, regardless of a student’s ultimate specialty. General internists and family physicians who provide primary care will assume care for most older adults, but medical and surgical specialists in all fields and emergency medicine physicians will see more and more older adults. While family physicians, general internists, and others provide care for many older adults—and do it very well—geriatricians focus on the relationship between managing diseases and maintaining function and quality of life.