What does the course look like?
These are the subject areas of the course:
Target Audience: Primary Care Physicians
Secondary Audience: Nurses, Pharmacists and other medical personnel*
Learning Objectives: At the completion of the program, participants should be able to:
- Define elder abuse and neglect in the home and institutional setting.
- Identify risk factors for elder abuse or neglect in the victim, perpetrator, and situation.
- Recognize signs of abuse or neglect in their elderly patients.
- Perform a forensic interview and examination in a suspected case of abuse or neglect of an elder.
- Report any suspicion of elder abuse or neglect to the appropriate agency.
- Describe strategies to manage cases of abuse or neglect.
Release and Termination Dates: August 1, 2005 to August 1, 2008
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Participants will view the program and complete the post-test online.
These are samples of what you will encounter while viewing the program.
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Care-based Instruction - Video and Interactive |
Reading and Navigation Online |
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Five Sections with a Six Multiple Choice post-test |
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As a sponsor accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California must ensure balance, independence, objectivity and scientific rigor in all its individually sponsored or jointly sponsored educational activities. The authors participating in this sponsored activity are expected to disclose any significant financial interest or other relationships with the manufacturer(s) of any commercial product(s) and/or provider(s) of any commercial services. (Significant financial interest or other relationships can include such things as grants or research support, employee, consultant, major stockholder, member of speakers’ bureau, etc.) The intent of this disclosure is not to prevent an author with significant financial or other relationships from participating, but rather to provide readers with information with which they can make their own judgments. It remains for the reader to determine whether the faculty’s interests or relationship may influence the enduring material.
Faculty:
| Edward Schneider, M.D. Dean Emeritus Professor of Gerontology Professor of Medicine Leonard Davis School of Gerontology University of Southern California Los Angeles, California No conflicts to disclose |
Diana Schneider, M.D. Assistant Professor of Clinical Family Medicine Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California Los Angeles, California No conflicts to disclose |
Laura Mosqueda, M.D. Professor of Clinical Family Medicine Director of Geriatrics University of California, Irvine Irvine, California No conflicts to disclose |
*According to the American Medical Association (AMA), a course that grants AMA Physician’s Recognition Award (PRA) category 1 credit for Continuing Medical Education (CME) “consists of educational activities that serve to maintain, develop, or increase the knowledge, skills, and professional performance and relationships a physician uses to provide services for patients, the public, or the profession. CME represents that body of knowledge and skills generally recognized and accepted by the profession as within the basic medical sciences, the discipline of clinical medicine, and the provision of health care to the public.” The AMA also states that in addition to physicians, “providers may certify nonclinical subjects… for AMA PRA category 1 credit, so long as… [this course is] prepared specifically for a physician audience.”
Most states accept AMA category 1 credit. Please check with your state medical board to learn if they accept AMA category 1 credit.