clinical experiences

The Acute Recovery Center (ARC) offers fellows an opportunity to work alongside faculty on an inpatient geriatric psychiatric unit, supervising and teaching medical students and residents while providing excellent wraparound care to older adults. 

One of only 5 such centers in the nation, the Polytrauma Rehabilitation Center embeds fellows in a multidisciplinary team providing intensive rehabilitative care to individuals with injuries to multiple organ systems. Fellows receive broad exposure to traumatic brain injury care and sleep medicine.

The Community Living Center at the James A. Haley Veterans Hospital provides short-term rehabilitation, long-term nursing care, and end-of-life care to older adults. Fellows work alongside faculty on a geriatric psychiatry subspecialty consultation service.

The Home-Based Primary Care system of care provides multidisciplinary clinical services within the home for older adults with chronic diseases which affect not only their health, but daily function and ability to receive conventional health care. Fellows work alongside faculty to provide ambulatory psychiatric care within each patient's home, assisted living facility, or medical foster home.

The USF Health Byrd Institute is a multi-disciplinary center of excellence providing family-centered care, excellence in clinical research, and public education. Fellows work alongside faculty conducting clinical psychiatric and memory disorder evaluations which guide treatment planning and participation in clinical trials.

Ambulatory Geriatric Psychiatry provides subspecialty psychiatric services to older adults suffering from complex medical and psychiatric syndromes, psychologic complications associated with aging, and neurocognitive disorders. Fellows conduct neuropsychiatric evaluations and maintain an individual panel of continuity patients.

The TMS Clinic at JAHVA offers fellows an opportunity to conduct clinical examinations of patients with treatment resistant depression, in addition to working alongside faculty to learn motor threshold determination techniques and directly administer TMS.

The Geriatric Psychiatric Consultation-Liaison Service at JAHVA also provides inpatient and ambulatory electroconvulsive therapy services. Fellows work alongside experienced faculty to receive the training necessary to independently provide ECT treatments.

The Geriatric Psychiatry and Neuropsychology Inpatient Consultation Services maintains a dynamic interprofessional relationship providing fellows with an opportunity to conduct dual assessments of medically, neurologically, and psychiatrically complex patients.

USF is proud to have one of 15 designated Memory Disorder Clinics in the state of Florida, where patients with memory problems can be assessed by an interdisciplinary team of specialists. Fellows work alongside faculty experienced in clinical examination and research surrounding neuropsychiatric disorders. 

The Geriatric Substance Use Disorder Clinic is a new collaboration for the 2025-2026 academic year between the USF Addiction and Geriatric Psychiatry Fellowships. Fellows work alongside dual-board faculty to provide ambulatory substance use disorder services to older adults.

Understanding medical complexity and the effects of aging is a foundational element of geriatric psychiatry training. Fellows work alongside geriatric medicine faculty as an integrated member of the ambulatory geriatric medicine clinic.