Clinician-educators focus on practical, evidence-based strategies that the internal medicine physician can use across care settings to better identify and treat serious and chronic conditions common to older populations, such as cognitive impairment; function assessment, frailty, and falls; depression and anxiety; and hazards of hospitalization. Faculty discuss primary palliative care approaches, including strategies for clinical decision making and deprescribing in the setting of complex medical conditions; providing a systematic approach to pain and symptom management; applying principles of prognostication to those with serious illness and advanced age; and serious illness communication skills.
This extensive collection of virtual lectures will cover:
- How disease manifests differently in older adults and disease management in older adults using the Geriatrics 5Ms (mind, mobility, medications, multicomplexity, and what matters most) approach.
- The key elements of the Age-Friendly Health System's Framework.
- How to Integrate Age-Friendly Health System principles into clinical decision making to improve outcomes and quality of care for older adult patients.
- Frailty and its relevance to health care for older adults.
- Options for transitions of care for older adults and those with serious and chronic illness.
- Strategies for medication management and deprescribing in older adults.
- Palliative care management of common symptoms, including pain, depression, and communication strategies around complex medical conditions.
Course Directors:
Helen Fernandez, MD, MPH
Professor, Vice Chair, Education, Brookdale Department of Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY
Sonia Malhotra, MD, MS, FAAP, FAAHPM, FACP
Associate Chief, Palliative Medicine; Medical Director of Palliative Medicine, LCMC Health, Division of Palliative Medicine, Department of Medicine, Tulane University School of Medicine/LCMC Health, New Orleans, LA
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CME/MOC:
Up to 7
AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ and MOC Points
Expires July 26, 2029
active
Cost:
Discounted to Members
Format:
Video Recordings
Product:
Internal Medicine Meeting Recordings
ACP's Internal Medicine Meeting Recording packages include video and slide presentations from a curated selection of popular and highly rated sessions delivered during or derived from the ACP Internal Medicine Meeting. Trusted, timely content in general internal medicine and the subspecialties is presented by expert faculty; CME and MOC available.
Disclosures
None of the planners or faculty for this educational activity have relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose with ineligible companies whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients.
CME Accreditation and MOC Information
The American College of Physicians is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
The American College of Physicians designates this enduring material, Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine for Internal Medicine Physicians, for a maximum of 7 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™ . Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
Successful completion of these CME activities, which includes participation in the evaluation component, enables the participant to earn 7 medical knowledge MOC points in the American Board of Internal Medicine’s (ABIM) Maintenance of Certification 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 credit.