Final Reflections Fellow Video (1).mp4
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- 00:00Welcome to the Yale
- 00:04Geriatric Fellowship Program.
- 00:05I am Jerry Carens,
- 00:06the Clinical Fellowship Director.
- 00:08We're so happy that you decided to
- 00:10interview with us today and learn about
- 00:13our outstanding training program.
- 00:15We thought it would be really helpful
- 00:18to learn from our former Fellows
- 00:20as to why they chose geriatrics
- 00:23and what their experience has
- 00:25been in our program. Thank you.
- 00:28I choose geriatrics because I want to
- 00:31make a difference in the health of aging.
- 00:34Older adults. It's a complex medical
- 00:37field where you're managing patients
- 00:39with a lot of comorbidities,
- 00:41but you're still tailoring your care to
- 00:44fit the individual needs of the patient.
- 00:48I trust geriatrics because
- 00:49it brings together so nicely both medical
- 00:51and social aspects of Health. I feel that
- 00:54geriatrics is a wonderful extension of
- 00:56Internal Medicine where there really
- 00:58is an opportunity to improve the
- 01:00quality of life for older adults. I
- 01:02chose geriatrics for the opportunities
- 01:04to work with a team to provide
- 01:07care for the patient and their
- 01:09families where they need it.
- 01:10Most other, that's the hospital.
- 01:12The nursing home at home.
- 01:14Those opportunities don't
- 01:15come and other specialties.
- 01:17I chose a career in geriatrics to learn
- 01:20the skills and knowledge necessary
- 01:23to effectively take care of our
- 01:25older adults who often have complex
- 01:28medical histories and who are often
- 01:31juggling fragmented care and even
- 01:33conflicting treatment plans.
- 01:35So I really like Grimes,
- 01:38which is our post acute long-term
- 01:41care facility because you manage
- 01:43patients that are pretty complex
- 01:46in a pseudo hospital setting.
- 01:48You also get to understand the
- 01:51administrative side of sub acute rehab.
- 01:55My favorite rotation was home
- 01:57based primary care at the VA.
- 01:59You can learn so much about a patient
- 02:01and their social determinants of
- 02:03health by walking into their home.
- 02:05Seeing how butter their hallways
- 02:07are an opening up their fridge
- 02:08to see what do they have?
- 02:10My favorite rotation was working
- 02:13on the inpatient ace unit or
- 02:15acute care for elderly unit.
- 02:17It was wonderful to experience the
- 02:20interdisciplinary approach to patient care,
- 02:22but also for Fellows.
- 02:24It was fertile teaching grounds for
- 02:26medical students, interns, residents,
- 02:28an non geriatrician hospitalists.
- 02:30I most enjoyed working
- 02:31on a quality improvement
- 02:33project with my Co Fellows focused
- 02:35on the documentation of patients
- 02:36health care representatives.
- 02:38The opportunity to see something
- 02:40that isn't working and then
- 02:42to get in there an work within
- 02:44the system and be supported,
- 02:46and trying to fix it and make
- 02:48it better is really fulfilling.
- 02:50I really enjoyed being a part of
- 02:53the medical student curriculum.
- 02:54Each year that Geriatric Fellows and
- 02:57faculty lead the Geriatric clinical
- 02:59skills workshops for the 1st and
- 03:012nd year medical students and it was
- 03:03just such a rewarding opportunity
- 03:05to be able to instill important
- 03:07principles and geriatric care so
- 03:09early in the medical student training.
- 03:12My favorite activity this year
- 03:14was the didactic sessions at the
- 03:16Alzheimer's disease. Researching it.
- 03:17We got to learn from neurologists and
- 03:21psychiatrists for at the cutting edge
- 03:23of dementia research and we also had
- 03:26neuroimaging sessions where we got to use
- 03:28the buzzers. That was a lot of fun.
- 03:32I really enjoy doing the
- 03:34hospitalist case presentations.
- 03:35I found this provided a opportunity to
- 03:37provide excellent geriatric teaching points.
- 03:40It also hopefully impacted the way
- 03:42that hospitalists manage older adults.
- 03:44Overall, I'm really happy I got
- 03:48to do my fellowship at Yale. I
- 03:52always felt like my education
- 03:55came first in the program.
- 03:59Michael Fellows, the program
- 04:00leadership the whole Department were
- 04:02amazing and great fun to work with.
- 04:04I am ready to go out there and
- 04:06take care of older adults.
- 04:09I thoroughly enjoyed my clinical
- 04:11Geriatric Medicine Fellowship.
- 04:13It was such a wonderful opportunity to
- 04:15train in such a robust academic program.
- 04:19The faculty dedication to teaching
- 04:21was often palpable and I received
- 04:24tremendous support from our PDA,
- 04:26PDA, and program coordinator.
- 04:29It's a fellowship that brings together
- 04:31the very best of clinical geriatrics
- 04:33and the latest research in the field.
- 04:35It's a tremendously supportive environment
- 04:37where everyone has worked to help support me.
- 04:40Meet my goals within Geriatric Medicine. My
- 04:42experiences here. It was better
- 04:44than I could have ever imagined.
- 04:46I got to work with some of the top
- 04:48leaders in the Geriatric community,
- 04:51as well as getting great friendships
- 04:53with the fellows here and I'm
- 04:55living in the city of New Haven,
- 04:57which has really great restaurant,
- 04:59San friendly people.
- 05:00For any reason, it was my first
- 05:02choice in a program and it has
- 05:05exceeded my expectations for high
- 05:06quality education and training.
- 05:10I think the overwhelming consensus is is
- 05:13that if we all had to do it over again,
- 05:18we would definitely choose Yale. Oh,
- 05:23and did I mention we're a family