Goals of Training

• Acquire clinical experience in geriatric medicine, clinical pharmacology, and geriatric psychiatry in a highly interprofessional learning environment, and different clinical settings (e.g., outpatient, long-term care, hospital).

• Grow their knowledge base in clinical pharmacology (pharmacokinetics, pharmacodynamics), drug-drug interactions, drug-disease interactions, conducting an appropriate medication review (both intrinsic and extrinsic), prescribing and deprescribing, as well as personalized medicine.

• Acquire competency in telemedicine and apply this technology to educational and interprofessional collaborative settings.

• Acquire knowledge translation skills: knowledge synthesis through literature reviews, rapid review for drug information, and geriatric pharmacology educational opportunities.

• Increase research experience in drug safety among older adults: pharmacoepidemiology, medication education, and knowledge synthesis.