Mini Fellowships
The Stanford Geriatric Education Center’s Mini-Fellowship in Ethnoger
iatrics includes 60 hours of intensive supervised training and 80 hours of self-study on topics related to health care of elders from different ethnic backgrounds especially for faculty, educators, researchers, and clinicians/providers with teaching functions in health care, social services, and pastoral professions.
The program is designed in collaboration with the Fellow to meet personal objectives and time schedules. Emphasis may be on any health care issue for elders from diverse cultural backgrounds. Examples include health promotion, mental health, acute, chronic and long term care, rehabilitation, adult day health, and hospice care. Other areas may include elder abuse, family caregiving, minority older women’s health, spirituality, use of traditional medicine, chronic pain management, end of life issues and other ethnogeriatric topics that are within the mission and goals of the Center, and use of advanced technology to disseminate ethnogeriatric information.
Continuing education credits may be arranged. No stipends or registration fee. Applicants with advanced educational background and 3-5 years of formal teaching in the field of aging are preferred.
For questions or inquiries, please email stanfordgec@stanford.edu or call the SGEC office at 650-721-1023.
Forms:
Mini-Fellowship Description (Word File)
Mini-Fellowship Application (Word File)
