MARQUETTE -- A new fellowship program is coming to Marquette General Hospital, and it will benefit the U.P.'s older population.
MGH is partnering with the Michigan State University's Department of Family Medicine to make possible a new geriatrics fellowship program.
Marquette General will be one of seven sites in the state to train geriatricians.
There are no other models like this in the country, and officials are hopeful this new initiative in Michigan will be a model for medical education in the future.
"The number of older adults in the country is increasing, and that's particularly poignant in the Upper Peninsula," said Dr. Kevin Foley, head of the fellowship. "There will be a greater need to have physicians who are specifically trained in geriatric medicine to take care of those more complex patients. It's really unusual to have this level of training occurring in such an isolated, rural, underpopulated area."
The fellowship will be starting in July.
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