Geriatric Medicine CME: Listen and Learn
The GRS11 Audio Companion brings you engaging, informative discussions with GRS chapter authors and experts. These 30-minute sessions are based on GRS content, covering the latest developments and prevailing evaluation and management strategies in geriatric medicine.
How-to tips and techniques, treatment approaches, and valuable GRS11 pearls enhance your clinical decision-making and help you prep for board exams. Tables and figures in the accompanying PDF syllabus offer additional support.
This audio CME program — moderated by G. Michael Harper, MD, AGSF, and William L. Lyons, MD, AGSF — provides fresh perspectives and updated content across six key topic areas:
- Current Issues in Aging
- Approach to the Patient
- Care Systems
- Syndromes
- Psychiatry
- Diseases and Disorders
Date of Original Release: March 31, 2022
Estimated Time to Complete: 35 hours
Successful completion of this CME activity enables the participant to earn up to 35 MOC points in the American Board of Internal Medicine’s (ABIM) Maintenance of Certification (MOC) program. Participants will earn MOC points equivalent to the amount of CME credits claimed for the activity. It is the CME activity provider’s responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABIM MOC points.
Learning Objectives
The learning objectives for this activity have been designed to improve participant knowledge, competence, performance, and patient outcomes. At the conclusion of this program, participants should be able to:
- Describe the general principles of aging and the biomedical and psychosocial issues of aging (knowledge)
- Discuss legal and ethical issues related to geriatric medicine (knowledge/competence)
- Evaluate the financing of health care for older persons (knowledge/competence)
- Identify the basic principles of geriatric medicine, including assessment, prognostication, pharmacotherapy, prevention, exercise, palliative care, rehabilitation, and sensory deficits (knowledge/competence)
- Use state-of-the-art approaches to geriatric care while providing care in hospital, office-practice, nursing-home, and home-care settings (performance)
- Diagnose and manage geriatric syndromes, including dementia, delirium, urinary incontinence, malnutrition, osteoporosis, falls, pressure injuries, sleep disorders, pain, dysphagia, and dizziness (performance)
- Apply relevant information from the fields of internal medicine, neurology, psychiatry, dermatology, dentistry and gynecology to the care of older patients (performance)
- Provide patient care in the light of evidence-based data regarding the particular risks and needs of various ethnic, racial, and sexual patient groups (patient outcomes)
- Use quality indicators to assess and improve the care of older adults (performance/patient outcomes)
- Use evidence-based data to increase the effectiveness of teaching geriatrics to all health professionals (performance)
Target Audience
This course is intended for primary care providers who work with older adults.
+ Topics:
- 01 DEMOGRAPHY.mp3
02 BIOLOGY.mp3
03 PSYCHOLOGY OF AGING.mp3
04 ETHICS AND LAW.mp3
05 FINANCING, COVERAGE, AND COSTS OF HEALTH CARE.mp3
06 HEALTHY AGING.mp3
07 ASSESSMENT.mp3
08 PROGNOSTICATION.mp3
09 ADVANCE CARE PLANNING.mp3
10 MULTIMORBIDITY.mp3
11 CAREGIVING AND OTHER PSYCHOSOCIAL CONSIDERATIONS.mp3
12 CULTURAL ASPECTS OF CARE.mp3
13 LGBTQ HEALTH.mp3
14 PHYSICAL ACTIVITY.mp3
15 SCREENING AND PREVENTION.mp3
16 PHARMACOTHERAPY.mp3
17 COMPLEMENTARY AND INTEGRATIVE MEDICINE.mp3
18 MISTREATMENT.mp3
19 OUTPATIENT CARE SYSTEMS.mp3
20 COMMUNITY-BASED CARE.mp3
21 TELEHEALTH.mp3
22 HOME-BASED MEDICAL CARE.mp3
23 HOSPITAL CARE.mp3
24 REHABILITATION.mp3
25 NURSING HOME CARE.mp3
26 TRANSITIONS OF CARE.mp3
27 PERIOPERATIVE CARE.mp3
28 PALLIATIVE CARE.mp3
29 FRAILTY.mp3
30 VISION LOSS AND OTHER EYE CONDITIONS.mp3
31 HEARING LOSS.mp3
32 DIZZINESS.mp3
33 SYNCOPE.mp3
34 NUTRITION AND WEIGHT.mp3
35 SWALLOWING AND FEEDING.mp3
36 URINARY INCONTINENCE.mp3
37 PRESSURE INJURIES AND WOUND CARE.mp3
38 GAIT IMPAIRMENT.mp3
39 FALLS.mp3
40 OSTEOPOROSIS.mp3
41 DEMENTIA.mp3
42 BEHAVIOR DISTURBANCES IN DEMENTIA.mp3
43 DELIRIUM.mp3
44 SLEEP ISSUES.mp3
45 PAIN MANAGEMENT.mp3
46 DEPRESSION AND OTHER MOOD DISORDERS.mp3
47 ANXIETY DISORDERS.mp3
48 SCHIZOPHRENIA SPECTRUM AND PSYCHOTIC DISORDERS.mp3
49 PERSONALITY AND SOMATIC SYMPTOM DISORDERS.mp3
50 ADDICTIONS.mp3
51 INTELLECTUAL AND DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES.mp3
52 DERMATOLOGY.mp3
53 DENTISTRY AND ORAL HEALTH.mp3
54 PULMONOLOGY.mp3
55 CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE.mp3
56 HEART FAILURE.mp3
57 HYPERTENSION.mp3
58 GASTROENTEROLOGY.mp3
59 NEPHROLOGY.mp3
60 GYNECOLOGY.mp3
61 PROSTATE DISEASE AND CANCER.mp3
62 SEXUALITY.mp3
63 MUSCULOSKELETAL PAIN.mp3
64 RHEUMATOLOGY.mp3
65 DISORDERS OF THE FOOT.mp3
66 NEUROLOGY.mp3
67 STROKE AND CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE.mp3
68 INFECTIOUS DISEASES.mp3
69 ENDOCRINOLOGY.mp3
70 DIABETES MELLITUS.mp3
71 HEMATOLOGY.mp3
72 ONCOLOGY & HEMATOLOGIC MALIGNANCIES.mp3
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