Description of Program

Health Management for Older Adults is a series of six audio/slide modules designed to target all health professionals in the nursing home, hospital, clinic, and home health care environments. This program was produced and distributed by the University of Florida Geriatric Education Center (GEC), in cooperation with the North Florida Area Health Education Centers (AHEC) and the Gainesville VA Medical Center Geriatric Research, Education and Clinical Center (GRECC), summer, 2001.

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General Instructions

Instructions

Please follow these easy steps to earn your continuing education credit: (For best results in viewing slides, please maximize your browser)

1. View synchronized slides and listen to each module

2. Read and review all supplemental material

3. Complete and submit the posttest for that module.

Note: If you do not pass the posttest with a grade of 70% or better, you will not be permitted to proceed to the evaluation and you must redo Steps 1-3.

Verification of CME/CEU

Please be sure you have printed your certificate upon completion of program as instructed in Step 3e above. Certificate page will no longer be accessible and no other certificate or proof of credit can be provided.

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Continuing Medical Education (CME) and Continuing Education (CE) Credit

Available Continuing Medical Education (CME) and Continuing Education (CE) Credit

This program was originally released on July 15, 2001, reviewed 9/1/02 and is accredited through July 15, 2004. Available continuing education credit will be provided as follows:

Continuing Medical Education (CME) - AMA Category 1 credit will be issued to physicians and physician assistants.

The University of Florida College of Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

The University of Florida College of Medicine designates this educational activity for a maximum of 6.00 hours in category 1 credit toward the AMA Physician's Recognition Award. Each physician should claim only those hours of credit that he/she actually spent in the educational activity.

Nursing Continuing Education Credit - Nursing Continuing Education will be provided by the North Florida/South Georgia Veterans Health System. The North Florida/South Georgia Veterans system is an approved provider of continuing education in the State of Florida (provider number 2285). This program meets the requirements of the Florida Board of Nursing for 6 contact hours of continuing education.

Social Worker Continuing Education Credit - Continuing education credit for social workers will be provided by The University of Florida College of Medicine. The Board of Clinical Social Work, Marriage and Family Therapy, and Mental Health Counseling (provider #BAP, expires 03/03) has approved this program for 6 hours of credit. Each participant should claim only those hours of credit that he/she actually spent in the educational activity.

General Continuing Education Units (CEUs) -- Disciplines, including nursing, not specifically covered above or not indicated by the participant on the evaluation form will be issued general continuing education units. Participants are responsible for contacting the provider in their discipline in order to receive specific continuing education credit. The University of Florida is accredited by the American Council on Continuing Education and designates this activity for .60 Continuing Education Credit Units (CEUs). Each participant should claim only those hours of credit that he/she actually spent in the educational activity.

Criteria for Qualifying and Applying for Continuing Medical Education
(CME) or General Continuing Education (CE)

CME/CE credit will be awarded for each individual module completed. Each audio module and accompanying material will constitute one "contact or credit hour" toward awarding of CME or CE.

Each module contains approximately 40-45 minutes of qualifying educational material. Accompanying each module is reading material relevant to the particular module representing approximately 15 minutes of qualifying educational material. Each module will be accompanied by an evaluation form with a 1-5 rating on content, speakers, format, and overall quality. This evaluation also requests information required for our records as well as recommendations for future topics. Each module will be accompanied by a posttest, which is to be completed and submitted along with the evaluation form at the conclusion of each module, and certificate will be issued through the system at that time.

NOTE: The actual length of Module 6, "Moderated Patient Roundtable," is sixty-eight minutes, because we felt that the responses to the various questions needed to be presented as they were made by the panel members.

Posttest questions, all in "True or False" format, for Module 6 are based on moderator summaries of the responses and on majority answers of the panel.

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Completion of Posttest

In order to receive credit for each individual module, the posttest for that program module must be completed, along with the evaluation, and the participant must achieve a grade of at least 70%.

Completion of Evaluation

In order to receive credit for each individual module, the evaluation for that program module must be electronically submitted with the corresponding posttest, indicating health profession discipline.

Supplemental Materials to be used with modules

The accompanying handout material of approximately 15 minutes of supplemental reading and study is part of and is to be used in conjunction with the program audio modules in order to qualify as a completed program. Questions pertaining to the handout materials will be included in the posttest.

Speaker Confict of Interest

It is the policy of the University of Florida Office of Continuing Medical Education to insure balance, independence, objectivity, and scientific rigor in all its individually sponsored or jointly sponsored educational programs. All faculty participating in any University of Florida sponsored programs, are expected to disclose to the program audience any real or apparent conflict(s) of interest that may have a direct bearing on the subject matter of the continuing education program. This pertains to relationships with pharmaceutical companies, biomedical device manufacturers, or other corporations whose products or services are related to the subject matter of the presentation topic. The intent of this policy is not to prevent a speaker with a potential conflict of interest from making a presentation. It is merely intended that any potential conflict should be identified openly so that the listeners may form their own judgments about the presentation with the full disclosure of the facts. It remains for the audience to determine whether the speaker's outside interests may reflect a possible bias in either the exposition or the conclusions presented.

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Copyright UF-GEC, 2001
Music by: Flying Hands Music
Music Licensee: Breath of Life Video
Body Graphic used on all slides and some links by: Corel Gallery(TM) Magic