Curriculum Objective
Objective
General Objectives
Explain the legal obligations of physicians to report concerns regarding driving safety, with a focus on the importance of cognition.

Curriculum Block

Part 5 / Integration Foundation / Maternal Health Risks/Aging-Related Care
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Curriculum Block
Part 5 Integration Foundation Maternal Health Risks/Aging-Related Care
Curriculum Week
IF
Discipline
Geriatrics
MCC Presentations
Legal system Major/Mild Neurocognitive Disorders (Dementia)
McMaster Program Competencies
1.1 Gather essential and accurate information about patients and their health through history-taking, physical examination, and the use of laboratory data, imaging, and other tests. 7.3 Communicate with other health professionals in a responsive and responsible manner that supports the maintenance of health and the provision of healthcare in individual patients and populations 4.3 Demonstrate sensitivity, honesty, and compassion in difficult conversations, including those about death, end of life, adverse events, bad news, disclosure of errors, and other sensitive topics 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 2.5 Apply principles of socio-behavioural sciences to the provision of patient care, including assessment of the impact of psychosocial and cultural influences on health, disease, care-seeking, care concordance, care adherence and barriers to and attitudes toward care. 5.5 Demonstrate sensitivity and responsiveness to a diverse patient population, including all dimensions of diversity such as those that are included in human rights legislation and federal and provincial law. 1.6 Perform or assist with medical, diagnostic, and surgical procedures considered essential for the area of practice.
MeSH
Aged [M01.060.116.100] Aged, 80 and over [M01.060.116.100.080] Cognition [F02.463.188] Automobile Driving [I03.125] Mental Processes [F02.463]

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