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Geriatric Medicine & CBME: Where are we now? Laura Diachun Chair, Nucleus Committee for Geriatric Medicine

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Geriatric Medicine & CBME:Where are we now?

Laura DiachunChair, Nucleus Committee for 

Geriatric Medicine

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Faculty/Presenter Disclosure

• Faculty: Laura Diachun

• Relationships with financial sponsors:– Grants/Research Support: None– Consulting Fees: None– Patents: None– Other: None

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Disclosure of Financial Support• This program has received financial support from nobody. 

• Potential for conflict(s) of interest:– This is about geriatric education and I LOVE geriatric education

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Mitigating Potential Bias

• My bias is that educating future geriatricians is of utmost importance. I am hoping not to mitigate this!

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Objectives

1. Explain Geriatric Medicine’s progress with its planned transition to CBME

2. Identify Entrustable Professional Activities (EPAs) of Geriatric Medicine

3. Describe Geriatric Competencies and their potential evaluation strategies

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National Endeavour

• March 2017‐present

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Age Old Question

What exactly does a geriatrician do?

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1) Regional variation in practice2) Site specific resources3) Language of origin

Challenging Considering:

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Stage 1 – Transition to Discipline2‐6 weeks

Stage 2 – Foundations of Discipline6‐8 months

Stage 3 – Core of Discipline12 months

Stage 4‐Transition to Practice2‐4 months

1. Initiating a comprehensive geriatric assessment, identifying common geriatric syndromes, and suggesting a management plan 

2. Assessing and proposing management for older adults with common Internal Medicine conditions

1. Performing a comprehensive geriatric assessment (CGA)

2. Diagnosing and managing common medical conditions in older patients 

3. Assessing and managing common neuro‐cognitive disorders with typical presentations

4. Diagnosing and initiating management of delirium 

5. Identifying issues with medication use and making suggestions for optimal prescribing 

6. Completing falls risk assessments to include gait analysis and balance 

7. Teaching and supervising junior learners  

1. Managing older adults with functional decline using CGA 

2. Managing older adults with multiple co‐morbidities across the spectrum of frailty

3. Assessing and managing patients with a complex and/or uncommon neuro‐cognitive presentations 

4. Assessing and managing uncomplicated  mental health conditions in older adults 

5. Preventing and managing delirium 

6. Assessing and managing complex psycho‐social issues unique to vulnerable older adults 

7. Managing end‐of‐life in older adults 

8. Teaching other learners

9. Running family and team meetings

10. Managing BPSD

11. Determining patients’ capacity 

1. Managing the  Geriatrician’s practice

2. Contributing to the improvement of health care delivery for older people in teams, organizations, and systems

3. Planning and completing personalized training experiences aligned with career plans and/or specific learning needs **NEW / ELECTIVE EPA**

Special assessments:Developing a personal learning plan 

Advancing geriatric medicine through a scholarly project

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Stage 1 – Transition to Discipline2‐6 weeks

Stage 2 – Foundations of Discipline6‐8 months

Stage 3 – Core of Discipline12 months

Stage 4‐Transition to Practice2‐4 months

1. Initiating a comprehensive geriatric assessment, identifying common geriatric syndromes, and suggesting a management plan 

2. Assessing and proposing management for older adults with common Internal Medicine conditions

1. Performing a comprehensive geriatric assessment (CGA)

2. Diagnosing and managing common medical conditions in older patients 

1. Managing older adults with functional decline using CGA 

2. Managing older adults with multiple co‐morbidities across the spectrum of frailty

1. Managing the  Geriatrician’s practice

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TD 1: Initiating a comprehensive geriatric assessment (CGA) and identifying common geriatric syndromes

Key Features:• This EPA focuses on components of the CGA, including conducting a comprehensive history and physical examination, documenting the clinical encounter, and identifying common geriatric syndromes

• This EPA also includes mental status assessments using  Mini–Mental State Examination (MMSE) and a Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA) 

• This EPA does not include analysis and synthesis 

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F 1: Performing a comprehensive geriatric assessment (CGA)

Key Features:

• This EPA focuses on all components of the CGA, including analyzing and synthesizing diagnoses for common geriatric syndromes

• This EPA also includes incorporating medical and interprofessional team input, comprehensive care planning, awareness of community services, living environments and programs, and managing transitions of care, managing goals of care, discharge planning, and rehabilitation potential

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C 1: Managing older adults with functional decline using comprehensive geriatric assessment (CGA)

Key Features:• This EPA builds on the competencies of the Foundations stage to 

focus on generating a feasible management plan using CGA, including communicating prognosis, care planning, and managing transitions of care

• This EPA includes creating a prioritized problem list with a patient‐and/or family‐centered management plan that projects functional status trajectory of and assesses for rehabilitative potential

• The observation of this EPA includes the completion of a STACER and is divided into three parts: management plan; communication with patient and family; communication with referring source

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TTP 1:  Managing the Geriatrician’s Practice

Key Features:• This EPA includes managing service delivery, contributing to team 

functioning, managing patient flow, demonstrating the ability to work simultaneously in more than one setting (covering more than one clinical service at a time, teaching, committees), completing medical and legal documents, time management, office management, billing and remuneration.

• This EPA is split into two components:1. Practice review/audit: review of the multiple components of practice including: combination of inpatient/consult service and outpatient experiences; time management; team functioning; and, office management over a specific timeframe (min of 2 weeks) to complete “independent practice”2. Shadow billing

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Stage 1 – Transition to Discipline2‐6 weeks

Stage 2 – Foundations of Discipline6‐8 months

Stage 3 – Core of Discipline12 months

Stage 4‐Transition to Practice2‐4 months

1. Initiating a comprehensive geriatric assessment, identifying common geriatric syndromes, and suggesting a management plan 

1. Assessing and managing common neuro‐cognitive disorders with typical presentations

2. Diagnosing and initiating management of delirium 

1. Assessing and managing patients with a complex and/or uncommon neuro‐cognitive presentations 

2. Managing BPSD 

3. Preventing and managing delirium 

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F 3: Assessing, diagnosing and managing common neuro‐cognitive disorders with typical presentations

Key Features:• This EPA focuses on the initial assessment and diagnosis of patients with  common 

neurocognitive disorders but does not include patients with delirium or behavioural and psychological symptoms of dementia (BPSD)

• This EPA includes performing and interpreting cognitive assessment, physical examination and investigations, communicating diagnosis and prognosis, identifying potentially modifiable conditions, and recognizing the need for neuropsychological testing

• This EPA also includes managing patients with pharmacologic and non‐pharmacologic treatment options, utilizing community support programs, and demonstrating awareness of medicolegal aspects, and future planning

• The observation of this EPA is divided into three parts: cognitive assessment; communication with patient and/or caregiver; management

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Assessment Plan

• Part A : Cognitive assessment  

• Direct or indirect observation in the form of a case review by supervisor 

• Case Mix: MCI; Alzheimer’s; vascular/mixed dementias; lewy body dementias

• Supervisor: geriatrician; geriatric psychiatrist; behaviouralneurologist; care of the elderly physician; 

• Setting: Any clinical setting; simulation

• Collect 6 direct or indirect observations of achievement• At least 1 of each from the case mix • At least 3 by a geriatrician

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Part B: Communication with patient/caregiver

• Direct observation by supervisor

• Communication Scenarios: communicating diagnosis with patient and family; communicating driving risk; communicating home safety risk; communicating about management of finances; communicating other safety issues [select all that apply]

Supervisor: geriatrician; geriatric psychiatrist; behavioural neurologist; care of the elderly physician 

Settings: inpatient; outpatient

Collect 5 observations of achievement • At least 1 of the following types of communication: home safety, driving, 

management of finances, or other safety issues• At least 1 communication of driving risk • At least 2 observations by a geriatric medicine specialists

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Part C: Management

• Direct or indirect observation by supervisor 

• Case Mix: MCI; Alzheimer’s; vascular/mixed dementias; lewy body dementias

• Supervisor role: geriatrician; geriatric psychiatrist; behavioural neurologist; care of the elderly physician; 

• Settings: inpatient; outpatient; simulation

• Collect 5 observations of achievement. • At least 1 each of the case mix• At least 2 observations by a geriatric medicine specialist

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C 4: Assessing and managing patients with complex and/or uncommon neuro‐cognitive presentations

Key Features:

• This EPA focuses on assessing and managing  less common  neuro‐cognitive disorders, such as non‐Alzheimer dementias and non‐vascular dementias

• This EPA includes performing a comprehensive neurological exam to support atypical features, as well as managing other factors that can complicate the presentation 

• This EPA does not include the diagnosis of common and typical neuro‐cognitive disorders, the use of basic cognitive screening tests, or counseling about basic safety issues (e.g. driving, home safety, etc.)

• The observation of this EPA is divided into two parts: assessment and management of complex and/or uncommon neurocognitive disorders; and counseling and communication of diagnosis and prognostic issues specific to these less common disorders 

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EPAs and Observations

• 22 mandatory EPAs• Direct or indirect observations

– 6 TTD– 49 Foundation– 51 Core– 5 TTP

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Royal College certification in Geriatric Medicine requires all of the following:

1. Royal College certification in Internal Medicine; 

2. Successful completion of the Royal College examination in Geriatric Medicine;

3. Completion of all elements of the Geriatric Medicine Portfolio including: 1. Family meeting Structured Assessment for Clinical Encounter Report 

(STACER) C102. Team meeting STACER (C10)3. Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment STACER in Foundations EPA 14. Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment STACER in Core EPA 15. ? Multi‐source feedback

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CBD Document Suite

• Competency Training Requirements (CTR) (formerly OTR)

• Training Experiences document• Specific Standards for Accreditation

• ……. Coming soon to a program near you

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Practice medicine within their defined scope of practice and expertise

– Apply knowledge of the clinical and biomedical sciences relevant to Geriatric Medicine

• Distinction between normal aging and disease states • Impact of age on common medical conditions• Principles of the diagnosis and management of common medical conditions in the older adult

• Principles of the diagnosis and management of the older adult with multiple, complex medical conditions or syndromes:

– Dementia, including behavioural and psychological symptoms– Mild cognitive impairment (MCI)– Falls and mobility issues– Bowel and bladder dysfunction etc

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Time Line

• April 1, 2018 Document suite submitted for review 

• June: Yay or nay decision• June‐Sept: documents submitted for translation

• Oct‐Nov: documents ready for dissemination• July 1 2019: Geriatric Medicine CBME implemented nationally

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Questions?