Geriatrics CME

Maximize your CME allowance with MDCalc and get up to a $3,000 bonus gift card of your choice. Earn AMA PRA Category 1 Credits^TM for clinical content on 150+ calculators across multiple medical specialties. Easily earn and redeem CME at the point-of-care, online on our website or mobile app. Over 1 million medical professionals use MDCalc’s 550+ tools daily to support clinical decision making at the bedside.

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.

Key Topics in Geriatric and Palliative Medicine CME

Presented by Mount Sinai’s Brookdale Department of Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine — ranked #1* in the U.S. for the second consecutive year by U.S. News & World Report — this convenient online CME program contains expert presentations on the newest 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, and more. You can earn CME credits whenever, wherever, while this program helps you to:

• Understand the benefits and pitfalls of new treatments for older adults
• Identify and manage pain and non-pain, psychosocial and ethical issues
• Prepare for the ABIM geriatric and palliative medicine board exams
• Evaluate and guide medical interventions to improve patient quality of life
• And more …

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*Mount Sinai Hospital was named first in the nation for the care of older adults by U.S. News & World Report. The report’s 2021-2022 Best Hospitals Rankings also named Mount Sinai Beth Israel, Mount Sinai Morningside, and Mount Sinai West among the top 10 percent of all hospitals surveyed.

Stay on top of your game with the StatPearls Physician Unlimited CME programs. With 6,046 activities, StatPearls is the largest CME provider in the world. These Pub-Med Indexed articles are categorized into 162 specialty areas which lets you better access activities that will make the biggest impact on your practice. One subscription allows access to all the activities, including all state-requirements.

Pricing Options

• 6 Month subscription: All 6,339 CME Activities – $249 per 6 months
• Annual subscription: All 6,339 CME Activities – $349 per 1 year
• Lifetime: All 6,339 CME Activities + Access to Board Reviews Forever – $1999

Expert Clinicians Share Lessons Learned from Medical Mishaps

What My Mistakes Taught Me is a truly unique and illuminating online CME program. In 22 one-hour lectures, physicians from different areas of medicine and surgery discuss the expertise they’ve gained from problems, mistakes, and errors in clinical practice.

Led by Martin A. Samuels, MD, these experienced clinicians share case studies and the take-away messages learned from their own medical mishaps, emphasizing that:

• While we’re not perfect, we’re still valued contributors to our profession and society
• Perceived mistakes help us live with our imperfections and strengthen our integrity
• Recognized mistakes tell us what works and what doesn’t
• Accepting mistakes helps us take responsibility for erroneous ideas or actions
• Open acknowledgement of mistakes inspires others to do likewise

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

Learn Now: Advances in Geriatric Medicine CME

The 37th Annual UCLA Intensive Course in Geriatric Medicine & Board Review is one of the longest running and highest-regarded programs of its kind. Use these 58 lectures and panel discussions to reinforce your fundamental knowledge of geriatric medicine, discover new guidelines, and prep for board exams.

Well-suited for health professionals who wish to enhance their ability to care for older adults, as well as those who are preparing for certification or re-certification examinations, this online CME course covers essential topic areas in geriatric primary and specialty care, including:

• General Principles of Aging
• Falls and Musculoskeletal
• Medical Issues in Older Patients
• Common Geriatric Issues
• Geriatric Neurology/Psychiatry

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.