Geriatric Medicine CME Courses
Geriatric Medicine CME Courses
The 36th Annual UCLA Intensive Course in Geriatric Medicine & Board Review aims to enhance your knowledge of essential topics in primary and specialty care of your aging patients. Led by Zaldy Tan, MD, MPH, this CME program will help you to keep pace with the latest developments and to prepare for certification or re-certification exams in geriatric medicine offered by the American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM) and the American Board of Family Practice (ABFP).
This board review will help you to better:
- Apply principles of geriatric assessment, geriatric pharmacology, rehabilitation, and long-term care to the patient care setting
- Recognize major geriatric syndromes such as incontinence, pain management, and osteoporosis, and describe appropriate approaches
- Create personalized medication regimens for medically complex older adults
- Identify psychosocial problems and ethical issues in decision-making, and formulate an approach to these problems
This convenient audio program delivers the latest developments in geriatric medicine, along with prevailing evaluation and management strategies. Ideal for MOC.
The GRS10 Audio Companion brings you engaging, informative discussions with GRS chapter authors and experts. These 30-minute sessions are based on GRS content, and cover the latest developments and prevailing evaluation and management strategies in geriatric medicine.
Tables and figures in the accompanying PDF syllabus add visual support, while how-to tips and techniques, treatment approaches and valuable GRS10 pearls enhance your clinical decision-making and help you prep for board exams.
This audio CME program — moderated by G. Michael Harper, MD and William L. Lyons, MD — includes a new discussion on Prognostication, and fresh perspectives from updated content and new contributors.
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This Geriatric and Palliative Medicine CME program brings you the latest trends and best practices for managing geriatric syndromes and improving patient outcomes. Intensive Update with Board Review in Geriatric and Palliative Medicine covers topics like late-life depressions, sleep disorders, surgical emergencies, capacity assessment, falls, hospice, etc. It will help you to better:
- Recognize and effectively manage the major geriatric syndromes
- Understand the benefits and drawbacks of novel therapies for older adults
- Assess and manage pain and non-pain issues
- Prepare for the ABIM geriatric and palliative medicine board exams
- Evaluate and guide medical interventions to improve patient quality of life
Developed by TMCI Global and the Society of Cannabis Clinicians (SCC), the Clinical Cannabinoid Medicine Curriclum is the first comprehensive, online CME-certified curriculum designed to educate the practicing clinician on both the research and clinical practice aspects of the therapeutic use of cannabis. Each course within the curriculum offers up to 1.5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ and the complete curriculum is certified for up to 13 CME credits.
You Will Learn About
- The fundamentals of the Endocannabinoid System
- The use of cannabis in a clinical setting
- The delivery and dosage of medical cannabis
- Mental health and the psychiatric application of medical cannabis
* Includes a bonus module on Cannabinoid Chemistry authored by Dr. Raphael Mechoulam, a professor of Medicinal Chemistry at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in israel and leading authority on Medical Cannabis science.
Target Audience: All healthcare practitioners; the curriculum was designed to educate the practicing clinician on both the research and clinical practice aspects of the therapeutic use of cannabis.
Purchase grants one learner one year’s access to lessons and quizzes (access expires 365 days from date of course activation).
- Ask questions that will help you understand the patient's Explanatory Model, or understanding, of her illness experience.
- Base your approach to culture using the LEARN mnemonic: Listen, Explain, Acknowledge, Recommend, and Negotiate.
- Ask and respond to patients' faith-based values and goals for care.
- Help patients to anticipate and consider aspects of the dying process they might not have considered.
- Open up communication with others who will be involved in patients' end-of-life care.
- Incorporate patients' values and preferences in advance care planning.
- How to respond to requests from a patient's family that raise ethical questions.
- Determine how to offer truth in order to elicit your patients' preferences.
- Negotiate solutions that respect patients' preferences as well as your ethical duty.
- Look at the evidence for and against complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) practices.
- Advise patientsbased on evidence.
- Negotiate treatment plans with patients who incorporate CAM.
- Build trust and have open communication with patients.
Speakers
- George T. Grossberg, MD Samuel W. Fordyce Professor; Director, Geriatric Psychiatry Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neuroscience, Saint Louis University School of Medicine
- David Beck, MD Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neuroscience, Saint Louis University School of Medicine
Topic and Learning Objectives
- Identify different and various forms of agitation among patients with Alzheimer's disease (AD).
- Review proposed mechanisms underlying agitation in AD and how pharmacologic agents may affect them
- Evaluate body of evidence of current and emerging pharmacologic agents for the management of agitation/aggression in patients with AD