Donald Scott, MD, MHS

Campus Director of Geriatrics and Palliative Care
Professor of Medicine

Russel Hall 126

1425 Prince Avenue

Athens, GA 30602

UGA Email

Augusta Email

706-713-2206

Dr. Don Scott is a Clinical Professor of Medicine and serves as the Director of Education in Geriatric Medicine at the UGA School of Medicine. He is also the Medical Director of the Cognitive Aging, Research and Education Center in the College of Public Health. He received his MD degree from the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine and completed his internal medicine residency training at the University of Rochester, where he also served as a chief medical resident. He completed his geriatric medicine fellowship and a Master of Health Science in Epidemiology at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and the Bloomberg College of Public Health. His academic career has been devoted to medical education in internal medicine and geriatrics. Dr. Scott is the recipient of numerous teaching awards and has practiced geriatric medicine and been a medical educator for over 25 years. He lives in Athens, is married with two step-children, enjoys the outdoors, his dogs, and playing and recording music.

Education

Masters of Health Science (M.H.S.) in Clinical Epidemiology, The Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, 1997 – 1999

Fellowship in Geriatric Medicine, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, 1996 – 1999

Medical Chief Resident, Rochester General Hospital, Primary Care Internal Medicine Program, The University of Rochester, Rochester, New York, 1995 – 1996

Internal Medicine Resident, Primary Care Internal Medicine Program, The University of Rochester, Rochester, New York, 1993 – 1995

Internship, Primary Care Internal Medicine Program, The University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, 1992 – 1993

MD (AOA), The University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois, 1988 – 1992

BS, Biology (Magna Cum Laude) The American University, Washington, D.C., 1984 – 1987

Honors / Awards / Achievements

2018 Community Partner of the Year, Athens Community Council on Aging, Athens, GA

2018 Exemplary Teaching Award, AU/UGA Medical Partnership, Athens, GA

2018 Educational Innovation Institute, Medical Education Research Fellowship Award, AU School of Medicine, Augusta, GA

2017 Exemplary Teaching Award, AU/UGA Medical Partnership, Athens, GA

2008 Fellow, Academy of Medical Education, Southern Illinois University School of Medicine

2006 Excellence in Medical Education and Clinical Care Award, Department of Internal Medicine, The University of Chicago & The Pritzker School of Medicine

2006 Fellow, Academy of Distinguished Medical Educators, University of Chicago, Pritzker School of Medicine

Selected Publications

Fornia A, Fromme B, Jonhson K, Scott D, Simpson D. From OSCE to OSTE: Using the Objective Simulated Teaching Encounter to Enhance Teaching Skills. The 16th Otawwa Conference on the Assessment of Competence in Medicine and the Healthcare Professions. Otawwa, Canada. (Pre-Conference Workshop.)

Scott, D. From OSCE to OSTE. Georgia Regent’s University, Educational Innovation Institute Grand Rounds, 2/7/13.

Scott, D. CHAMP (Curriculum for the Hospitalized Aging Medical Patient): A User’s Manual for a 4-Station Geriatrics OSTE Module. POGOe – Portal of Geriatric Online Education. Retrieved April 08, 2012 from http://www.pogoe.org/productid/20100

Williams, S, Limaye, S, Smith, S, Baron, A, Blood, A and Scott, D. Introduction to Geriatric Assessments: Geriatrics and Aging through Transitional Environments (GATE) Curriculum for MS2. POGOe – Portal of Geriatric Online Education; 2011. Available from: http://www.pogoe.org/productid/21010

Scott, D. & Bial, A. Delirium in the Hospitalized Older Adult. Curriculum for the Hospitalized Aging Medical Patient (CHAMP). Portal of Geriatric Online Education (POGOe), 2007.

Scott, D. A Users Manual for an Observed Structured Teaching Exercise (OSTE) Module in Geriatric Medicine. POGOe. The American Geriatrics Society, 2006.