Activity ID
13672Expires
March 27, 2025Format Type
InternetCME Credit
12Fee
$0CME Provider: Oregon Health & Science University School of Medicine
Description of CME Course
This 12-session ECHO program will help PCPs who feel ill-equipped to manage complexity and polypharmacy and have identified geriatric medicine as a desired educational topic. Literature suggests PCPs have reservations with key aspects of deprescribing, including knowledge gaps (e.g., concerns about withdrawal, fear of adverse effects), collaboration (e.g., stopping medications started by colleagues), and communication (e.g., deprescribing when patients/caregivers desire continuation). Training PCPs in deprescribing through mentorship could address these reservations and change prescribing patterns at rural primary care clinics.
ABMS Member Board Approvals by Type
ABMS Lifelong Learning CME Activity
Family Medicine
Psychiatry and Neurology
Commercial Support?
NoNOTE: If a Member Board has not deemed this activity for MOC approval as an accredited CME activity, this activity may count toward an ABMS Member Board’s general CME requirement. Please refer directly to your Member Board’s MOC Part II Lifelong Learning and Self-Assessment Program Requirements.
Educational Objectives
• Identify high risk medications prescribed to older adults
• Describe the reasons why certain medication classes are no longer safe for aging patients
• Describe principles and goals of deprescribing
• Apply practical pharmacological and non-pharmacological strategies to reducing to reducing high-risk medication burden on an older adult’s medication list
• Demonstrate effective communication strategies for counseling patients and their families about deprescribing
• Identify areas for collaboration between interprofessional team members working towards the goal of deprescribing
• Awareness of evidence-based interventions for deprescribing
• Identify evidence-based tools and resources that can assist with deprescribing
• addressing pill burden and simplifying the medication regimen could be one of the objectives as well
Keywords
Benzodiazepines, Opioids, Aging
Competencies
Interpersonal & Communication Skills, Medical Knowledge, Patient Care & Procedural Skills, Practice-based Learning & Improvement
CME Credit Type
AMA PRA Category 1 Credit
Practice Setting
Academic Medicine, Inpatient, Outpatient, Rural, Urban, VA/Military
