GRS9 Audio Companion 2016

The American Geriatrics Society and Oakstone Program

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Description:

Expert-Led Learning

Moderated by Annette Medina-Walpole, MD, AGSF, this CME course provides expert answers and firsthand patient care solutions across all six Geriatric Review Syllabus topic areas. Through 30-minute interviews, GRS9 chapter authors and contributors discuss current issues in aging, best practices in approaching older patients, care systems, syndromes, psychiatry, and diseases and disorders. Tables and figures in the accompanying PDF syllabus add visual support, while how-to tips and techniques, treatment approaches and valuable GRS9 pearls enhance your clinical decision-making and help you prep for board exams.

What’s New?

The GRS9 Audio Companion includes new discussions on caregiving, LGBT health, rheumatology, and stroke and cerebrovascular diseases. Psychiatry chapters have been updated with the new DSM5 terminology, and new author commentators cover topics including ethics and law, pressure ulcers and wound care, nephrology, gastroenterology, diabetes mellitus, and musculoskeletal pain.

Simple CME

Listen via audio MP3 CDs or our convenient online format, then successfully complete a brief CME quiz to earn a maximum of 35 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits ™ and 35 ABIM MOC points.

Accreditation

The American Geriatrics Society is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

Designation

The American Geriatrics Society designates this enduring material for a maximum of 35 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits ™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Date of Original Release: September 15, 2016
Date of Credit Termination: September 14, 2019

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

At the conclusion of this program, participants caring for older adults will be better able to:

• Describe the general principles of aging and the biomedical and psychosocial issues of aging
• Discuss legal and ethical issues related to geriatric medicine
• Evaluate the financing of health care for older persons
• Identify the basic principles of geriatric medicine, including assessment, geriatric pharmacotherapy, prevention, exercise, palliative care, rehabilitation, and sensory deficits
• Use state-of-the-art approaches to geriatric care while providing care in hospital, office-practice, nursing-home, and home-care settings
• Diagnose and manage geriatric syndromes, including dementia, delirium, urinary incontinence, malnutrition, osteoporosis, falls, pressure ulcers, sleep disorders, pain, dysphagia, and dizziness
• Apply relevant information from the fields of internal medicine, neurology, psychiatry, dermatology, and gynecology to the care of older patients
• Adjust patient care in the light of evidence-based data regarding the particular risks and needs of ethnic, racial, and sexual patient groups
• Use quality indicators to assess and improve the care of older adults in their own practices
• Employ evidence-based data to increase the effectiveness of teaching geriatrics to all health professionals

Target Audience

This course is intended for primary care providers who work with older adults.

Topics/Speaker:

Current Issues In Aging

• Demography – Paul Scalzo, BS

• Biology – Neal S. Fedarko, PhD

• Ethics and Law – Elizabeth K. Vig, MD, MPH

• Financing, Coverage, and Costs of Health Care – Richard G. Stefanacci, DO, MGH, MBA, AGSF, CMD

Approach to the Patient

• Assessment – Thomas M. Gill, MD

• Multimorbidity – Mathew K. McNabney, MD, AGSF

• Caregiving – Joseph E. Gaugler, PhD

• Cultural Aspects of Care – Vyjeyanthi S. Periyakoil, MD

• LGBT Health – Mark Simone, MD

• Physical Activity – Peter G. Snell, PhD

• Prevention – Mara A. Schonberg, MD, MPH

• Pharmacotherapy – Todd P. Semla, MS, PharmD, BCPS, FCCP, AGSF

• Complementary and Integrative Medicine – Julie C. Chapman, PsyD

• Mistreatment – Terry Fulmer, PhD, RN, FAAN, AGSF

• Perioperative Care – Colleen Christmas, MD, FACP

• Palliative Care – Grace A. Cordts, MD, MPH, MS

• Pain Management – Vyjeyanthi S. Periyakoil, MD

Care Systems

• Hospital Care – Margarita Sotelo, MD

• Transitions of Care – Alicia I. Arbaje, MD, MPH

• Rehabilitation – Kathleen T. Foley, PhD, OTR/L

• Nursing Home Care – Suzanne M. Gillespie, MD, RD, CMD, FACP

• Community-Based Care – Kristen Thornton, MD, FAAFP, AGSF, CWSP

• Outpatient Care Systems – Steven R. Counsell, MD, AGSF

Syndromes

• Frailty – Linda P. Fried, MD, MPH, AGSF

• Visual Loss and Eye Conditions – JoAnn A. Giaconi, MD

• Hearing Loss – Priscilla F. Bade, MD, FACP, CMD

• Dizziness – Aman Nanda, MD, CMD, AGSF

• Syncope – J. William Schleifer, MD

• Nutrition and Weight – James S. Powers, MD, AGSF

• Feeding and Swallowing – Colleen Christmas, MD, FACP

• Urinary Incontinence – Catherine E. DuBeau, MD

• Pressure Ulcers and Wound Care – Jeffrey M. Levine, MD, AGSF, CWSP

• Gait Impairment – Neil B. Alexander, MD

• Falls – Sarah D. Berry, MD, MPH

• Osteoporosis – Kenneth W. Lyles, MD, AGSF

• Dementia – Alexander W. Threlfall, MD, MA

• Behavioral Disturbances in Dementia – Melinda S. Lantz, MD

• Delirium – Edward R. Marcantonio, MD

• Sleep Issues – Cathy A. Alessi, MD, AGSF

Psychiatry

• Depression and Other Mood Disorders – Gary J. Kennedy, MD

• Anxiety Disorders – Judith Neugroschl, MD

• Schizophrenia Spectrum and Other Psychotic Disorders – Susan W. Lehmann, MD

• Personality and Somatic Symptom and Related Disorders – Marc E. Agronin, MD

• Addictions – David W. Oslin, MD

• Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities – Elizabeth Galik, PhD, CRNP

Diseases and Disorders

• Dermatology – Jane M. Grant-Kels, MD

• Dentistry and Oral Health – Kenneth Shay, DDS, MS, AGSF

• Pulmonology – Kathleen M. Akgün, MD

• Cardiology – Michael W. Rich, MD, AGSF

• Heart Failure – Justin M. Vader, MD

• Hypertension – Ihab Hajjar, MD, MS, FACP

• Gastroenterology – Philip O. Katz, MD

• Nephrology – Joshua I. Bernstein, MD

• Gynecology – G. Willy Davila, MD

• Prostate Disease and Cancer – Lisa J. Granville, MD, AGSF, FACP

• Sexuality: Female – Angela Gentili, MD

• Sexuality: Male – Thomas Mulligan, MD, AGSF

• Musculoskeletal Pain – Leo M. Cooney, Jr, MD

• Rheumatology – Una E. Makris, MD, MCS

• Podiatry – Douglas A. Albreski, DPM

• Neurology – Daniel L. Murman, MD, MS, FAAN

• Stroke and Cerebrovascular Disease – Daniel L. Murman, MD, MS, FAAN

• Infectious Disease – Manisha Juthani-Mehta, MD

• Endocrinology – David A. Gruenewald, MD

• Diabetes Mellitus – Sei J. Lee, MD, MAS

• Hematology – Roy E. Smith, MD

• Oncology and Hematologic Malignancies – Supriya Mohile, MD, MS