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Graduate Certificate in Geriatrics and Gerontology
The Graduate Certificate provides an important, academic step beyond continuing education for professionals who already possess a bachelor's or advanced degree and can lead to further graduate training in a health or human service discipline at URI. The program is interdisciplinary, with faculty from eight different URI departments and colleges participating in offering courses and mentoring students: Gerontology, Human Development and Family Studies, Nursing, Nutrition, Pharmacy, Physical Therapy, Exercise Science, and Communicative Disorders. (These links will open in a new window.)

A minimum of five (5) courses will be required: HSS 530 plus additional courses chosen from two or more departments or colleges.

Required Foundation Course:
Human Science and Services
HSS 530 Interdisciplinary Geriatric Teamwork

Suggested Course Options (Others may also apply):
Communicative Disorders
CMD 598 Special Problems

Human Development and Family Studies
HDF 431 Family and the Elderly
HDF440 Environmental Context of Aging
HDF 514 Seminar in Older Adulthood
HDF 597/98 Advanced Study

Nursing
NUR 555 Advanced Gerontological Nursing I
NUR 557 Advanced Gerontological Nursing II

Nutrition and Food Science
NFS 506 Community Nutrition
NFS 591/92 Special Problems

Pharmacy
PHP 440 Pharmaceutical Care for Special Populations
PHP 542 Evaluation of Contoversies in Drug Literature
PHP 593 Advanced Elective Experiential Rotation in Geriatrics

Physical Therapy
PHT 513 Directed Study
PHT 580 Pediatric and Geriatric Physical Therapy

Exercise Science
PEX 564 Physiology of Aging
PEX 591 Special Problems

For more information, please contact Dr. Phillip Clark at 401-874-2689 or aging@uri.edu.


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