The Five Weekend Care of the Elderly Certificate Course
This event is hosted by the Scarborough Health Network and the department of Continuing Professional Development at the University of Toronto.
This course held hybrid from January 13 to June 23, 2024 is a unique, accredited, longitudinal and comprehensive continuing professional development program for primary care practitioners that addresses the learning needs encountered in the primary care setting.
Themes covered during the course:
- Weekend 1: Assessment and Diagnosis of Dementia and Mild Cognitive Impairment
- Weekend 2: Approach to Physically Frail Elderly Patients with Falls
- Weekend 3: Mental Health and Chronic Pain Management
- Weekend 4: Management of Common Medical Problems in the Elderly
- Weekend 5: Approach to Elderly Patients with Failure to Thrive
This course was created for family physicians by family physicians with special interest in care of the elderly.
Preliminary evaluation has been favourable, demonstrating improvement in participants’ self-rated knowledge of and confidence in managing common geriatric problems. Qualitative data also show positive changes in participants’ provision of geriatric care.
The course is now being held in-person at the Scarborough Health Network, 2867 Ellesmere Road for the first and third weekends, and virtually for the second, fourth and fifth weekends.
This course may be used to partially support applications for the OMA-MOH GP Focused Practice Designation in the area of Care of the Elderly (COE).
The 5-Weekend Care of the Elderly Certificate Course - Continuing professional development activity for family physicians by Robert Lam, Linda Lee, Bachir Tazkarji, Joyce Lee, Amy Freedman and Soumia Meiyappan, Canadian Family Physician, March 2015, 61 (3) e135-e141.
