Salary funding for these residents is provided by the Veterans Administration at the PGY V level. In an attempt to reflect practice in the real world ore program has adopted a continuous care approach to learning as opposed to a system of block rotations. This means that the resident will be doing some inpatient, some outpatient and some consultation work through out the twelve months at the James Hanley VA Hospital in Tampa. In addition four afternoons a week are spent at sites outside the VA system. These include clinic at Lakeshore Villa s an extended care facility and nursing home, the USF Memory Disorder Clinic, the out patient clinic at the University Psychiatry Center and clinical studies rotation at the Suncoast Gerentology Center.
Monthly activities are journal club and geriatric psychiatry stump the professor case conference.
Board certified in general psychiatry with added qualifications in Geriatric Psychiatry. Board Certified in general psychiatry with added qualifications in Geriatric Psychiatry. Julia Winston M.D. Assistant Professor, James A. Hanley VA Hospital. Board certified in general psychiatry with added qualifications in Geriatric Psychiatry. Jonathan Stewart M.D. Professor and Chief of the Geriatric Psychiatry Service at the Bay Pines VA hospital.