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"CME credit" is part of special programs offered by other organizations (e.g. the American Medical Association) and is not the purview of the ACCME. The ACCME's mission is to provide those in the medical field with opportunities to maintain competence and learn about new and developing areas of their field.
Sinclair AJ, Morley JE, Vellas B. (eds) (2012, 5th ed.) Pathy's Principles and Practice of Geriatric Medicine ISBN 9780470683934 (chapter 112 - Multidimensional Geriatric Assessment) Fillit HM, and Rockwood K, Young JB.
The Journal of the American Medical Directors Association (JAMDA) is a peer-reviewed medical journal published by Elsevier twelve times a year as of January 2013 (9 times per year 2000–2012). It is the official journal of the American Medical Directors Association. The journal covers all aspects of long-term care and geriatrics. JAMDA's ...
Continuing medical education (CME) is continuing education (CE) that helps those in the medical field maintain competence and learn about new and developing areas of their field. These activities may take place as live events, written publications, online programs, audio, video, or other electronic media.
Certification is earned with competence in clinical medicine and medical management in long-term care, after completing educational requirements. [3] Continuing medical education in both clinical and leadership areas is a requirement to retain certification , as well as to recertify in the future.
In 2011, the American Geriatrics Society (AGS) convened an eleven-member multidisciplinary panel of experts in geriatric medicine, nursing, and pharmacotherapy to develop the 2012 edition of the American Geriatrics Society Updated Beers Criteria for Potentially Inappropriate Medication Use in Older Adults. [15]
Geriatrics is the branch of medicine that focuses on health care of the elderly. It aims to promote health and to prevent and treat diseases and disabilities in older ...
Strategies for engineered negligible senescence (SENS) is an emerging research strategy that aims to repair "root causes" for age-related illness and degeneration, as well as develop medical procedures to periodically repair all such damage in the human body, thereby maintaining a youth-like state indefinitely. [6]