Huntington is a bustling college town located along the Ohio River with a thriving downtown, excellent restaurants and beautiful parks. Huntington is a great place to live.
The geriatric medicine fellowship at Marshall University plays an important role in providing specialty-trained geriatricians for rural local and regional communities in the heart of Appalachia. Not only does this special population of patients require clinical expertise but the need also exists for advocacy within academic health systems, among the state’s physicians and hospitals, research of new solutions that encourage healthy aging at home and faculty to teach special skills in geriatrics to students and residents in a wide range of specialties.