Faculty Development: Teaching students shared decision making in reducing polypharmacy in older persons

Start Date
Thu, 1/24/2019
Start Time
6:00pm
End Date
Thu, 1/24/2019
Location
Sarasota Campus: 201 Cocoanut Ave
City
Sarasota
State
Florida
Brief
John Agens, MD, Education Director Dept. of Geriatrics presents this faculty development workshop
Description

The course Objectives are as follows:

  1. Participants will recognize that primary care geriatrics students are responsible for determining if patients are on Beers list drugs.
  2. Participants will be able to discuss empiric evidence for how frequently Beers criteria drugs are implicated in adverse drug events compared to other drug categories.
  3. Participants will understand recent evidence based studies concerning anticholinergic medication and adverse effects on cognition.
  4. Discuss how to engage a student in a discussion of shared decision making when thinking about initiating or stopping an anticholinergic drug for urge urinary incontinence: non medication option, targets and goals for each medication.
Contact Name
Pat Suzor
Contact Email
pat.suzor@med.fsu.edu
Contact Phone
941.316.8120

Add Event to Calendar Thu, 1/24/2019 6:00pm Thu, 1/24/2019 Eastern Faculty Development: Teaching students shared decision making in reducing polypharmacy in older persons John Agens, MD, Education Director Dept. of Geriatrics presents this faculty development workshop
Sarasota Campus: 201 Cocoanut Ave