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Originally Posted by gomoho
Geriatrician coming to Promise Hospital with a training program. Not sure how it will work but mentioned in today's paper.
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Yes, I read about it in the Sunday paper. They made a pledge of a few million dollars to provide geriatric training for doctors. It will be at the Promise Hospital. This type of article, as usual, doesn't fully explain how the program will work. So, it's left up to the individual reader to imagine how it might work. I imagine it will be for those doctors who work at the Promise Hospital and will have nothing to do with The Villages Clinics. They recognized a desperate need for more geriatrics but The villages Clinics have not yet addressed this issue.
Some have said there are GPs at The Villages Clinics who have studied geriatrics but I kind of doubt that it amounts to much. I saved all the articles that have come out announcing the new doctors and when it mentions their qualifications or specialty it doesn't say anything about any of them having a sub-specialty in geriatrics. And even if some of them do have it, it's not the same as being a geriatrician.