Geriatric Psychiatry
Activity
Clerkship Teaching Session
Clerkship Teaching Session
List some pharmacokinetic changes associated with aging. Identify cognitive changes associated with aging. Describe some common bed side cognitive assessment tools.
Curriculum Block
Clerkship / Psychiatry Rotation
- Indicates most relevant
Objectives
Clerkship Objectives
- Geriatric and Cognitive Disorders: geriatric age-related mood, psychosis, anxiety disorders; Delirium and Dementia
- Assessment of cognitive deficits (and use of screening instruments e.g. MMSE, MOCA, etc.).
- Recommend medication management, monitoring and counselling, including: Classes of psychiatric medications and their indications. Medication counselling: indications, choice, side effects, etc. Pre-medication work-up. Medication monitoring and work-up. Side effects (blood tests and physical e.g. AIMS). Metabolic syndromes and monitoring. Special populations (pediatric, geriatric, pregnancy). Acute syndromes/reactions (NMS, dystonia, serotonin syndrome, toxicity).
Tags
Curriculum Block
Clerkship
Psychiatry Rotation
Discipline
Geriatrics
Psychiatry
MCC Presentations
Delirium
Frailty in the Elderly
Major/Mild Neurocognitive Disorders (Dementia)
McMaster Program Competencies
2.2 Apply biomedical scientific principles fundamental to health care for patients and populations.
2.4 Apply principles of epidemiological sciences to the identification of health problems, risk factors, treatment strategies, resource allocation, and disease prevention/health promotion efforts for patients and populations
MeSH
Aged [M01.060.116.100]
Delirium [F01.700.250.500]
Dementia [C10.228.140.380]
