Medical Resident and Fellow Training

Crucial to the field of aging, Dr. Crocco our EMBI collaborator from the CNSA has an intensive involvement in the training of the Jackson Memorial and University of Miami fellows and residents each year. She provides training to fellows and residents specializing in aging, which is especially important as there is a great need for clinicians in the field of aging. Although her case conferences and other training offerings are organized for psychiatry residents and fellows, our neurology trainees are invited We hold quarterly neurology-psychiatry collaborative educational sessions and grand rounds

Here is an overview of her training.

She holds Weekly Case Conference for the JMH Geriatric Psychiatry Training Program and coordinates and supervises all geriatric psychiatry fellows’ weekly presentations of patient’s case history, including biological, psychological and sociological data and formulates an integrated treatment plan.

She leads JMH Geriatric Psychiatry Residency Training Program Weekly Journal Club consisting of weekly coordination and supervision of all geriatric psychiatry fellows with the objective of critical evaluation of peer-reviewed, original research articles and learning to apply knowledge to the care of their geriatric patients.

She leads the Geriatric Psychiatry Seminar consisting of weekly developing and implementing basic, core curriculum-focused conference that covers knowledge and skill areas necessary to the successful completion of the geriatric psychiatry training program and commonly seen diagnoses in geriatric psychiatry

She directs the JMH General Psychiatry Residency Training Program and develops and implements comprehensive geriatric specialty lectures in all 4 years of general psychiatric residency training Topics include: normal aging, late-life schizophrenia, late-life depression, ECT, bereavement, neurodegenerative disorders, Alzheimer’s, Vascular, Lewy body disease, neuroimaging and caregiving issues. She also leads the Geriatric Psychiatry Training Program for Jackson Memorial Hospital and the Geriatric Psychiatry Lecture Series.