About the Fellowship: Clinical Training: Outpatient Consultation and Comprehensive Assessment

The Duke Geriatric Evaluation and Treatment (GET) Clinic

The Duke GET Clinic, one of the nation’s first outpatient geriatric assessment clinics, provides multidisciplinary assessment of elderly women and men by geriatricians, geriatric psychiatrists, social work and nursing.

• Patients referred locally, regionally and nationally by health care professionals and families for evaluation of multiple geriatric problems including:
  • polypharmacy
  • optimal management of medical conditions
  • falls
  • dementia
  • depression
  • functional decline
  • social issues
    
• Fellows evaluate and manage patients and families with the Attending physician, nurse and social worker team two half days a week.
• Fellows present their patients at the weekly GET Clinic conference.

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