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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.

Key Topics in Geriatric Psychiatry CME

The Comprehensive Review of Geriatric Psychiatry highlights the best practice guidelines for the management of various psychiatric disorders along with the latest developments in the field.

With Rajesh R. Tampi, MD, MS, DFAPA as course director, this online CME course covers lectures on topics like mood disorders, schizophrenia spectrum, psychotic disorders, anxiety disorders, ethical and legal issues in geriatric psychiatry, sexual dysfunction and sleep-wake disorders, movement disorders, and more.

The course covers wide-ranging topics in geriatric psychiatry to help you to:

• Outline and practice evidence-based care for older adults with psychiatric disorders
• Attain the latest knowledge on psychopathology, diagnostic workups and treatments for specific psychiatric diseases
• Integrate current guidelines into daily practice to provide best care to the patients and avoid undesirable sequelae, such as excess disability, premature nursing home placement, vulnerability to elder abuse and geriatric self-neglect
• Effectively prepare for ABPN certification and recertification subspecialty examinations in geriatric psychiatry

Learning Objectives

• Outline evidence-based care for older adults with psychiatric disorders
• Practice evidence-based care for older adults with psychiatric disorders
• Translate information learned from this program to achieve higher pass rates on the Certification and Recertification subspecialty examinations in Geriatric Psychiatry from the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology

Intended Audience

Psychiatrists taking the ABPN Certification and Recertification subspecialty exam in Geriatric Psychiatry, Psychiatrists in practice with older adults as patients, Psychiatry Residents, Geriatric Psychiatry Fellows, Geriatricians, Internists, Family Physicians, and Nurse Practitioners with older adults as patients.

Features of the BoardVitals Adult Gerontology Acute Care Nurse Practitioner (AG-ACNP and ACNPC-AG) Board Review Question Bank include:
• 2200 Adult Gerontology Acute Care Nurse Practitioner (AG-ACNP and ACNPC-AG) questions written by top performing NPs and clinicians
• Detailed rationales for every question including explanations for incorrect responses
• Customize your practice by category to target weaknesses
• 24/7 access from any computer, tablet or smartphone
• 100% Pass Guarantee

Target Audience:
Both the ANCC Adult Gerontology Acute Care Nurse Practitioner (AG-ACNP) Exam and the AACN ACNPC-AG Certification for Adult-Gerontology Acute Care Nurse Practitioners Exam.

Get ready to pass the ANCC Adult Gerontology Primary Care Nurse Practitioner board exams with BoardVitals. Gain access to 1700 AGPCNP board review questions with detailed explanations to prepare for exam day. The Adult Gerontology Primary Care Nurse Practitioner (AGPCNP) Board Review Question Bank is targeted to the ANCC Adult Gerontology Primary Care Nurse Practitioner (AGPCNP) Exam.

The Adult Gerontology Primary Care Nurse Practitioner (AGPCNP) Board Review Question Bank features:
• 1700 Adult Gerontology Primary Care Nurse Practitioner (AGPCNP) questions written by top performing NPs and clinicians
• Detailed rationales for every question including explanations for incorrect responses
• Customize your practice by category to target weaknesses
• 24/7 access from any computer, tablet or smartphone
• 100% Pass Guarantee

Target Audience:
Nurse practitioners preparing for the ANCC Adult Gerontology Primary Care Nurse Practitioner board exam.