Geriatric Psychiatry Fellowship Curriculum
The curriculum addresses many facets of treating geriatric patients, including:
- Cognitive screening
- Psychopharmacology, polypharmacy, and drug interactions
- Psychiatric examination of the elderly
- Evaluation and treatment for schizophrenia
- Elder law
- Psychotherapy for the elderly
- Consultation-liaison psychiatry
- Movement and speech disorders
- Dementia
- Late-life depression
- Addictions, sleep, anxiety, and bipolar disorders in the elderly
- Telepsychiatry
- Evaluation of research literature