The Center for Gerontology
and Health Care Research
Postdoctoral Program
Cinical Exposure
Fellows have the opportunity to do clinical work in a number of specialized settings related to the interface of psychiatry and general health care, including:
a specialized 20-bed inpatient medical psychiatric unit
an extensive behavioral medicine program comprising active research programs in obesity treatment and smoking cessation
a memory disorder clinic
a geriatric assessment rotation at a local hospital and an adjacent nursing home
a clinical research service at a state chronic-disease hospital.
Resources
Exposure to the various technical aspects of database management systems, whether for primary data collection or for use on existing data sets, is a critical aspect of the program. Fellows have access to a state-of-the-art research environment, complete with equipment, software, programming environments, systems programming, and data processing maintained by the Center’s technical staff. The Center houses an archive of computerized data sets, including studies that its faculty and associates have conducted, as well as publicly available data sets with a focus on long-term care and aging and preventive health practices, generally from national studies commissioned by governmental agencies. Center faculty and staff have years of experience working with administrative data sets such as Medicare and Medicaid claims, as well as with specialized clinical data from all U.S. nursing homes. These are available to fellows working on the relevant projects.