Education

Continuing Medical Education/Maintenance of Certification

• APA's Ethnic Minority Elderly Curriculum Intended to help training programs develop their curricula to address the special training requirements for all age groups, with extra information about minority populations in general, and an additional focus on minority elderly. The current version is focused on minority aging issues and has been revised to address teaching methods and the new core competencies required by the ACGME. It is designed to be useful for general psychiatrists, students, and other health care professionals.
• American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry (AAGP) is a national association representing and serving its members and the field of geriatric psychiatry.  For more information about AAGP, please click here.  
• American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry Geriatric Psychiatry Self Assessment Program.
• American Psychiatric Association Annual Meeting.  Every year the Annual Meeting offers symposia, workshops and new research posters relevant to the care of older adults.  To search the program, please click here.  
• American Psychiatric Association Institute on Psychiatric Services.  A meeting by, for, and about public-sector psychiatry: a smaller, intimate meeting, ideal for exchanges of ideas.  To learn more, please click here. 
• FOCUS: The Journal of Lifelong Learning in Psychiatry  This journal is really a system for recertification, performance in practice, self-assessment, and lifelong learning in psychiatry.  To access content related to Geriatric Psychiatry please click here.  
• American Journal of Psychiatry  The most widely read psychiatric journal in the world.  To access content related to Geriatric Psychiatry please click here.

Selected publications from American Psychiatric PUBLISHING

• American Psychiatric Publishing offers a complete selection of books and other resources of interest to Geriatric Psychiatrists.  For more information please click here. 

Opportunities for Medical Student and Residents

• Geriatric Psychiatry Fellowship Programs- The Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) website lists geriatric psychiatry training programs. To view the list of programs, please click here and select "List of Programs by Specialty". In the pull-down menu, select Psychiatry, Geriatric Psychiatry, and "view programs" for the full list.
• ABPN Certification in Geriatric Psychiatry The American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology, Inc. (ABPN) is a not-for-profit corporation dedicated to serving the public interest and the professions of psychiatry and neurology by promoting excellence in practice through certification and maintenance of certification processes.  For information on the certification process for Geriatric Psychiatry, please click here.
• The AAGP's Geriatric Mental Health Foundation’s Scholars Fund was developed to expose medical students and young physicians to the rewarding field of geriatric psychiatry in an effort to increase the number of medical professionals expertly trained to care for the growing older population.  For more information, please click here.
• Geriatric Psychiatry Research Fellowship Descriptions