Clinical Opportunities
- Ambulatory geriatric medicine clinics (2 locations) 33% time
- Long-term and skilled nursing facility: 33% time
- House call opportunity (10% time)
- Inpatient care-geriatric medicine team (opportunity) 15% time
- Inpatient geriatric medicine consult service (opportunity) 15% time
Education and Supervision
- Teaching and oversight of students, residents, and fellows in all sites of clinical care
- Participation in residency and fellowship training programs
- Participation in and delivery of educational sessions (eg grand rounds, journal club, teaching curriculum)
Administration and leadership
- Primary collaborating physician for geriatric nurse practitioners
- Medical directorship: long term care
- Support for geriatric medicine and palliative care fellowship programs
- Opportunity for membership and participation in hospital, University, and School of Medicine committees
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Work schedule:
- Monday - Friday 8am - 5pm academic/clinical services
- Shared weekend hospital geriatrics inpatient team/consult rounding (1 in 5)
- Shared holiday coverage hospital geriatrics inpatient team/consult rounding (1-2 per year)
- Shared evening/weekend/holiday telephone call (1-2 per week)
- Hospital work at: SSM Health Saint Louis University Hospital
- Ambulatory work at: SLUCare clinics (Center for Specialized Medicine; DesPeres Medical Arts Bldg)
- Home care: Saint Louis city/county
- Nursing home care: Saint Louis city/county
Unique practice activities and opportunities:
- Academic practice at a Level 1 trauma center: Nationally recognized academic geriatrics program
- L ongstanding geriatric medicine fellowship:-35 years of geriatric medicine and over 140 fellows trained
- H ospice/palliative fellowship program
- T eaching of students, residents, fellows
- Multiple care venues (long term care, skilled care, home care, assisted living, inpatient geriatrics team with Acute Care for the Elderly unit; geriatric medicine consults)
- Academically active at national meetings for AMDA, AGS, AAHPM
- Active GWEP HRSA grant
- 3 nursing home medical directorships; 1 hospice medical directorship; 1 assisted living medical directorship; 1 home health care medical directorship
- 4 nursing home practice locations