The Geriatric Psychiatry Fellowship Program at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center is ACGME-approved for two fellows, and currently has two open positions for the 2025-26 academic year. Take a look at what our program has to offer in a truly picturesque region of the country, the Upper Valley of New Hampshire, known for its wonderful lifestyle, family friendly atmosphere, easy year-round access to the outdoors, and close proximity to Boston MA, Portland ME, and Burlington VT.
Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, the main academic campus of the Dartmouth Health system, is one of the nation’s leading academic medical centers, specializing in training and delivery of cutting-edge healthcare in a rural setting. Our one-year clinical fellowship is flexible, emphasizing learning and quality care over service demands. We offer a range of rotations, utilizing the unique resources of Dartmouth Health and its teaching hospital affiliates, including the New Hampshire Hospital and the White River Junction Veteran’s Administration Medical Center. Additionally, training covers all settings in which older adults with psychiatric and neurocognitive disorders receive care including inpatient psychiatric units, outpatient clinics, long-term care facilities, a neurology dementia clinic, a primary care geriatric medicine clinic, a substance abuse treatment program, a palliative care service, a retirement community, and a psychiatric nursing home. The schedule of rotations can be tailored to accommodate individual career interests of fellows, and to create time for unique electives and a scholarly project. Seven geriatric psychiatry faculty within the geriatric psychiatry section provide ample opportunities for high quality supervision and scholarly collaboration.
A required scholarly project, based on the fellow’s preferences and interests, can focus on clinical care, research, quality improvement, program development, or advocacy. Opportunities exist for qualified fellows to extend the program for a second year of research training.
Completion of the fellowship prepares the fellow to sit for the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology examination in Geriatric Psychiatry. Our goal is to train fellows who are excellent clinicians, educators, and scholars who can serve as leaders and advocates in the evolving geriatric healthcare delivery landscape and as leaders in the field of geriatric psychiatry more broadly. "
https://gme.dartmouth-hitchcock.org/geriatric
Dax Volle, MD, Geriatric Psychiatry Fellowship Program Director, Dax.C.Volle@hitchcock.org
Rebecca Roberts, Geriatric Psychiatry Fellowship Program Coordinator, Rebecca.D.Roberts@hitchcock.org