From medical school, through residency and fellowship training and on into clinical practice and positions on medical school faculties, Hartford-funded programs are increasing the number of doctors able to teach geriatrics and improving the geriatric content of medical training programs, including those in the specialties and subspecialties.

A cornerstone of the Foundation's medicine programming is the Centers of Excellence in Geriatric Medicine and Training initiative, created to address the critical shortage of geriatric faculty members in the nation's medical schools. Operating since 1988, and currently at 28 institutions across the country, this program has produced hundreds of geriatrically knowledgeable scientists, teachers and clinicians. It has also helped create a higher level of recognition and appreciation of the discipline throughout the medical center, university and affiliated clinical service settings. To learn more about this network and read about some of the outstanding junior faculty supported by these grants, please click here.

Our program to integrate geriatrics into the medical subspecialties and surgical and medical specialties was the focus of the 1999 Annual Report, and programs to put geriatrics into the medical school curriculum and other programs were highlighted in 2004 as part of the Foundation's 75th Anniversary. Click here to find program descriptions and more information.

Senior Program Officer Gavin Hougham discussed Hartford's programs for physicians with the Trustees in December 2007 as a part of strategic planning presentation that reviewed grantmaking in this field since 1982.