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Who Should Apply
The Hartford Geriatrics Leadership Scholars Program is an intensive two-year training program for five or six newly appointed directors of geriatric academic programs. Candidates for the Hartford Geriatrics Leadership Scholarship must meet all of the following criteria:
- Serve as a leader of a geriatric medicine program (may be a geriatrics division, section or geriatrics department) that also has an accredited geriatric medicine fellowship. In the absence of an accredited geriatrics fellowship, the applicant must demonstrate evidence of institutional commitment to geriatrics. Examples include:
- a plan to institute a fellowship by a specified date
- plans to implement a required geriatrics curriculum in the medical school
- inclusion of geriatrics education, clinical service, or research in the institution's strategic plan
- evidence of intent to recruit geriatrics faculty
Documentation of commitment should be submitted by the appropriate institutional official
- Newly appointed (within 5 years) to current director position.
- Nominated by the director's department chair and dean. No institution can have more than one Hartford Leadership Scholar at any time.
- Institution must be a dues-paying member of the Association of Directors of Geriatric Academic Programs.
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