Geriatrics CME

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Target Audience: Physicians specializing in Geriatric Medicine

Your MDCalc CME subscription includes 15 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™, with up to 8 credits available in the Geriatric specialty.

Easily earn and redeem CME as you use review CME eligible calculator content. Over 1 million medical professionals use MDCalc’s over 550 tools daily to support clinical decision making at the bedside. Earn CME with the following Geriatrics calculators:

• AUDIT-C
• CAGE Questions
• CAM-ICU
• HEMORR₂HAGES Score
• Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA)
• Shorr Score
• SMART-COP

Key Topics in Geriatric Medicine CME

The 36th Annual UCLA Intensive Course in Geriatric Medicine & Board Review is aimed at enhancing your knowledge of essential topics in primary and specialty care of your aging patients. Led by Zaldy Tan, MD, MPH, this continuing medical education course outlines the latest developments and prepares you for the 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 online CME course 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

Listen and Learn

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, AGSF, and William L. Lyons, MD, AGSF — includes a new discussion on Prognostication, and fresh perspectives from updated content and new contributors.

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.

Pass Guarantee

We Guarantee You’ll Pass! Diligent study of the GRS10 Syllabus — combined with listening to all topic areas of the Audio Companion — provides the strongest likelihood of passing the ABIM certification and maintenance of certification exams. Oakstone is so confident of your success that we guarantee it. If you do not pass either exam on your first attempt, and you purchased the GRS10 Audio Companion, we will provide a full credit of the Audio Companion purchase price, which you may apply to future purchases of Oakstone CME materials.

GRS10 Audio Companion Guarantee Procedure. Send a copy of your notification of failure from the ABIM to Oakstone Publishing, Two Perimeter Park South, Suite 160 East, Birmingham, AL 35243. If you have answered all of the questions in the GRS10 Audio Companion and earned all of the CME credits, you will receive full credit of your purchase price. Your exam record will be destroyed.

Developed by TMCI Global and the Society of Cannabis Clinicians (SCC), the Clinical Cannabinoid Medicine Curriculum 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.

While reviewing Clinical Cannabinoid Medicine Curriculum, you will learn:
• 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

Clinical Cannabinoid Medicine Curriculum 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.

There are many Geriatric activities that users can engage in to earn CME credits available on this site and broaden their knowledge about Geriatric Psychiatry.

Target Audience: Geriatric Psychiatrists.

This is a biweekly webinar series as well as archived slides/lectures.

Topics cross all domains of palliative care and are relevant to every member of the interdisciplinary team.

Target Audience:
Primary care physicians, multiple specialties, nurse practitioners, and physician assistants.

Each week, three articles in the New England Journal of Medicine have a companion CME exam available online. You can earn up to one CME credit for each exam successfully completed. NEJM subscribers receive 20 online exams per year as part of their subscription. Non-subscribers may pay on an hourly basis ($19 per single credit or $109 for 10 exams) and read the articles and take the exams completely online.

Target Audience:
Physicians focusing on Family Medicine and Internal Medicine.

This powerful online CME education program goes beyond the basics to help physicians and advanced practice clinicians fine-tune the concrete competencies that build relationships, foster engagement and collaboration, and your professional pride and effectiveness. Videos illustrate skills with rich scenarios. Takeaway tools support skill practice and application. And you can complete the program on-line, on any device, at your convenience.