Department of Medicine » Geriatrics http://blogs.bu.edu/medicine Audio Podcasts Mon, 21 May 2012 18:08:26 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.4 2006-2007 kmgilber@bu.edu (Department of Medicine) kmgilber@bu.edu (Department of Medicine) http://blogs.bu.edu/medicine/wp-content/plugins/podpress/images/powered_by_podpress.jpg Department of Medicine http://blogs.bu.edu/medicine 144 144 Audio Podcasts Department of Medicine Department of Medicine kmgilber@bu.edu no no Moral Dilemmas and Problematic Decision Making in Geriatric Medicine http://blogs.bu.edu/medicine/2011/06/21/moral-dilemmas-and-problematic-decision-making-in-geriatric-medicine/ http://blogs.bu.edu/medicine/2011/06/21/moral-dilemmas-and-problematic-decision-making-in-geriatric-medicine/#comments Tue, 21 Jun 2011 16:58:08 +0000 pcahn http://blogs.bu.edu/medicine/2011/06/21/moral-dilemmas-and-problematic-decision-making-in-geriatric-medicine/ Speaker:     Michael Grodin, MD
Professor of Health Law, Bioethics and Human Rights
Boston University School of Public Health

By the end of this podcast, listeners should be able to:

  1. List five reasons why there is so much interest and concern about medical ethics in geriatric medicine today.
  2. Define and distinguish normative ethics, descriptive ethics, law, religion, and human rights as methodologies to address problematic decision making in geriatric medicine.
  3. Identify three principles of biomedical ethics.
  4. Identify and describe substantive and procedural approaches to moral dilemmas.

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Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Director of Research,
Division of General Medicine and Primary Care
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center

June 10, 2011

Objectives: At the conclusion of this podcast, listeners will be able to:

  1. Discuss the latest developments in diagnosis, epidemiology, and pathophysiology of delirium.
  2. Describe interventions for delirium prevention and treatment.
  3. Discuss the current state and future directions of delirium research.

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Speakers: Sue Berger, PhD, OTR/L, BCG, FAOTA
Clinical Assistant Professor
Department of Occupational Therapy
Boston University College of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences

Jennifer Salvo, OD
Low Vision Optometrist
Massachusetts Association for the Blind

Learning Objectives: At the conclusion of this podcast, listeners will be able to:

1.  Identify and refer patients for low vision services.

2.  Understand the components of a low vision exam.

3.  Understand the components of occupational therapy assessment and intervention for persons with vision loss.

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Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Harvard Medical School

At the conclusion of the podcast, listeners will be able to:

  1. Understand the epidemiologic associations between cancer and age-related neurodegeneration (Alzheimer’s disease and Parkinson’s disease).
  2. Review the biological pathways common to these diseases.
  3. Understand the potential epidemiologic and therapeutic implications of an inverse relationship between cancer and neurodegeneration.

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Assistant Professor of Medicine
Boston University Medical Center

Learning Objectives: At the conclusion of this podcast, listeners should:
  1. Recognize the importance of identifying male osteoporosis.
  2. Understand controversies in screening men for osteoporosis.
  3. Develop a basic approach to screening and management of men with osteoporosis.

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Director, Clinical Core, BU Alzheimer’s Disease Center
Associate Professor of Neurology
Boston University Medical Center

Learning Objectives: At the end of the podcast, listeners will:

  1. gain an understanding of the neuropathological findings of chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE).
  2. improve their understanding of the clinical presentation and course of CTE.
  3. increase their awareness of the research questions remaining pertaining to CTE and the current research aimed at answering these questions.

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Objectives:

  1. Recognize the limitations of traditional approaches to advance care planning.
  2. Understand advance care planning as a process preparing patients and families to make “in-the-moment” decisions.
  3. Understand how models of health behavior can help to inform new approaches to promoting engagement in advance care planning.

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