Providing high quality patient care through education, scholarship and clinical services is the mission of the Division of General and Geriatric Medicine. Members of the division are active in and have leadership responsibilities in both administrative and educational roles in addition to their clinical activities. The mission of the division is carried out through these roles and in our four areas of clinical focus: Ambulatory Medicine, Geriatrics, Hospital Medicine and Palliative Medicine.
An energetic and committed faculty of 31 staffs the division including four chief residents and four faculty with dual appointments. All of our faculty has a teaching role with medical students and medical residents and several of our faculty hold leadership positions in undergraduate and graduate medical education programs.
Ambulatory Medicine
Ten division members provide care and teaching
in Internal Medicine Residency Clinic on site at the University
of Kansas Medical Center. Faculty work with medical students in
various programs from the first three years of medical school, and
work with residents for their ambulatory continuing care experience.
Members are involved in clinical, educational and administrative
leadership roles.
Geriatric Medicine
Within General Medicine and Geriatrics, two
physicians focus on internal medicine-based geriatrics. Their work
is primarily conducted at the Landon Center on Aging, a freestanding,
modern facility with easy access for patients. Our faculty are integral
in Geriatrics focused programs for students and residents funded
by a Reynolds Foundation Grant.
Hospital Medicine
Our 17 hospitalists staff four academic Inpatient
ward teams, one private Hospital service and a Medicine Consultation
Service at the University of Kansas Medical Center Hospital. This
growing group is committed to the practice and teaching of high-quality
patient care. Hospitalist faculty are involved in medical directorships,
medical student clerkships as well as key clinical faculty positions
for the residency program. Our faculty have been instrumental in
the development and implementation of our current advanced clinical
information system as well as responsible for the development and
maintenance of quality improvement projects in the hospital.
Palliative Medicine
Employs a team approach in operation of the inpatient
Palliative Medicine consultation service, working closely with team
clinical nurse specialists and social workers. Through expert
symptom management, counseling to make sure that patients’ preferences
are understood and honored, and facilitation of communication between
health care providers, this program strives to achieve the highest
quality in patient and family centered care for those dealing with
progressive illness and life change. Four faculty in the Palliative
Medicine section, in partnership with Kansas City Hospice and Palliative
Care, operate the region’s first Palliative
Medicine fellowship training program, and as well work with
residents and medical students to teach the principles of Palliative
Medicine.
Research
Three of our full time faculty spend the majority of their
time in funded research and a large number of our faculty have successful
scholarship around each of their individual areas of clinical,
educational or administrative interest and expertise.
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