The University of Chicago is one of few institutions to be selected as a training site for the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's Clinical Scholars Program. Under the leadership of Wendy Levinson, MD, Professor and Chief of General Internal Medicine, the program provides a two-year training program on methods and strategies for health outcomes and health care services research. The Frankel Fellowship in Geriatric Medicine. Under the leadership of Dr. Daniel Brauner, the Department of Medicine offers a two year clinical fellowship in geriatric medicine. The main training site is the Windermere Senior Health Center, a state of the art outpatient geriatrics clinic, as well as through the geriatric consult service and affiliated nursing homes and home care agencies.
Fellows also conduct clinical research in areas related to geriatrics.