Harborview Medical Center
Program Contact
Dr. Kate Bennett
Program Director
Shinetra Pryor
Program Administrator
HMC is the primary site of the division offices, Medicine G Inpatient Services, with special interest in geriatric syndromes, and the Senior Care Clinic. Fellows rotate through a wide variety of subspecialty clinics at HMC. 3 months are spent at Medicine G Inpatient Services acting in supervisory and teaching roles with housestaff and medical students. Fellows spend time each week in the Senior Care Clinic, a primary care and consultative clinic. Other clinical opportunties include HMC Palliative Medicine Consult Service and the Fall Prevention Clinic.
University of Washington Medical Center
Fellows spend 1 month in UWMC Palliative Medicine Services and rotate through a variety of UWMC subspecialty clinics including the Memory Disorders Clinic and the Urinacry Incontinence Clinic. Fellows are assigned to a Post-Acute Care (nursing home) in the community and care for patients weekly. In partnership with a division faculty members, fellows follow a panel of patients at one of our UW Post-Acute Care sites.
VA Puget Sound Health Care System
Fellows spend 3 months at the VA Community Living Center, which includes a 10 bed teaching service where fellows care for patients. 1 month is focused on geriatric psychiatry with an emphasis on behavioral management with dementia, mood disorders, and decisional capacity. Each fellow acts as the primary care provider for a panel of home based primary care patients. Fellows spend time in a wide range of subspecialty clinics at the Seattle VA, including Memory Disorders, Movement Disorders, Osteoporosis, and Rehabilitation Medicine Clinics.