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Topics in Geriatric Medicine
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THE COST-EFFECTIVE AND CONVENIENT ROUTE TO GERIATRIC MEDICINE CREDITS - ORDER NOW!
Move with ease through the latest in geriatric medicine and earn as many as
21 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™ in the ever-expanding subject of the older patient.
Topics in Geriatric Medicine addresses the major concerns and disorders endemic to this age group. You can move back and forth among seven CDs in your down time or while you’re on the move, at your own pace.
Benefits of Topics in Geriatric Medicine:
- No travel expenses, conference fees, time away from your practice or
excessive cash outlays for the program.
- Learn at your own pace and on your own time. No class schedules to meet.
- Economize. The $199 package contains everything you need to qualify for CME credits.
- Invest only $9 a CME credit including test scoring and certificate. (The number of credits you need depends on the number of geriatric patients you see.)
- Enjoy one-stop shopping. Oakstone does the whole job for you, course
content through certification.
- Know that you’re receiving instruction from experts who will help you succeed.
Hear the experts address these seven topic areas...
- Neurological concerns such as Alzheimer’s disease and dementia
- Psychiatric conditions: depression, delirium, antipsychotic drugs, sleep disorders
- Falls and physical functioning: fractures, death after hip fracture,
activity and increased life expectancy
- Pharmacology: adverse drug events, pain assessment, nutritional needs and supplements
- Cardiovascular concerns: statins, acute coronary syndromes, risk factors
- Genito-urinarymanagement: urogynecology surgery,morbidity andmortality, obesity and ED, prostate cancer, postmenopausal women
- Preventive gerontology and community resources: preparing the health care system, preventing hospital readmission, self-neglect
Your Topics package will contain:
- Seven audio CDs with a total of 7 hours of literature reviews, guest presentations, and expert commentary
- QuickFlash literature reviews cards for each CD
- Seven hard-copy quizzes - one for each of the 7 topics - that can easily be taken online for your convenience, enabling you to receive instant notification of your passing grade
- An opportunity to earn a maximum of 21 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ in geriatric medicine
Intended Audience: This course is intended for internal medicine, family practice, primary care, geriatric medicine physicians and others interested in increasing their knowledge in geriatric medicine and related areas of study.
Educational objectives:
- Define preventive gerontology
- Implement an appropriate plan of treatment and/or recommendations concerning care of aging partients
- Identify risk factors for the development of Alzheimer’s disease
- Recommend pharmacological treatment for the neuropathological changes of Alzheimer’s disease
- Recognize risk factors that may predict dementia in the older population
- Explain the relationship of medical comorbidity and depression in older, primary care patients
- Evaluate sleep habits for the elderly
- Describe a systematic evaluation for the aging patient with the problem of falls
- Recognize adverse drug events in older adults
- Describe the cardiac risks and treatment in older patients
Designation of Credit: Oakstone Medical Publishing designates this educational activity for a maximum of 21 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits.™ Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
Accreditation: Oakstone Medical Publishing is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
Financial Disclosure Statement: It is the Oakstone policy that the course planners, faculty, and provider disclose real or apparent conflicts of interest relating to the topics of this educational activity, and also disclose discussions of unlabeled/unapproved uses of drugs or devices during their presentation(s). Detailed disclosure will be made in the course materials.
The Estimated Time to complete this activity, in its entirety is 21 hours.
Release Date: May 2007
Expiration Date: April 30, 2010
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