Internal Medicine Meeting Recordings
Expert clinician-educations will 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. Expert faculty will 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 collection of virtual lectures will also 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
- practical strategies to identify and address geriatric syndromes that are common among older adults
- hazards of hospitalization for older adults and review methods to minimize these risks
- options for transitions of care for older adults and those with serious and chronic illness
- palliative care management of common symptoms and 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
Associate Section Chief and Director of Palliative Medicine, General Internal Medicine/Geriatrics/ Palliative Medicine, Tulane School of Medicine/University Medical Center New Orleans, New Orleans, LA
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