BMJ Learning Courses are designed to help you learn at every stage of your career. It is free for Monash Health employees and includes hundreds of interactive, peer reviewed learning modules, written by experts from BMJ. BMJ Learning is accredited by the Australian College of Nursing and the Royal Australasian College of Physicians. Earn CME credit for completing courses. 

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Recommended resources:

• Ask the consultant - Old age psychiatry (1 hour)
• Clinical pointers - Frailty (1.5 hours)
• Hospital presentations - Aggressive or disturbed behaviour (1 hour)
• Hospital presentations - falls (30 minutes)
• How does physical activity produce health benefits (30 minutes)
• Falls assessment and prevention in primary care (1 hour)
• Anaemia in old age - common presentations (2 hours)
• Management of dementia in primary care (1 hour)

The Library has created Reading Lists for geriatrics trainees. These reading lists are based off the Australian and New Zealand Society for Geriatric Medicine (ANZSGM) trainee committee reading list for advanced trainees and include books, eBooks, journals, articles, and web resources. Access below. 

Recommended reading lists:

Geriatrics Advanced Trainees

Emergency Medicine Cases

In this episode Dr. Don Melady, Canada's leading educator in Geriatric Emergency Medicine (Geri-EM) & Dr. Jaques Lee, one of Canada's leading researchers in Geri-EM, discuss the common yet challenging Geriatric Emergencies: a practical approach to geriatric Delirium, best practice for managing agitation and pain in the older patient, management of recurrent falls, pearls in the assessment of the 'Weak & Dizzy' geriatric patient, atypical presentations of common life threatening emergencies including ACS and surgical abdomen, key drug interactions in the geriatric patient and more.

GeriPal

A geriatrics and palliative care podcast for every health care professional. GeriPal invites the brightest minds in geriatrics, hospice, and palliative care to talk about the topics that you care most about, ranging from recently published research in the field to controversies that keep us up at night. 

MMOA (Modern Management of the Older Adult) 

MMOA (Modern Management of the Older Adult) helps rehab & fitness pros get results with older adults. Tune in to hear insightful geriatric discussions, relevant research, & treatment ideas.

The Integrative Palliative Podcast

Hosted by integrative palliative medicine physician, Dr. Delia Chiaramonte, The Integrative Palliative Podcast helps physicians and clinicians guide families facing serious illness to physical and emotional wellbeing. Listeners will find insights, skills and knowledge in evidence-supported integrative symptom management, as well as attention to their own self-care.

Australian Associations

• Alzheimer's Australia 
  • A society committed to the prevention of dementia, while valuing and supporting the people living with the disease.
• Australian and New Zealand Society for Geriatric Medicine -
  • Professional society for geriatricians and other medical practitioners.
• Australian Association of Gerontology -
  • Australia's peak national body linking professionals working across the multidisciplinary fields of ageing.
• Australian Psychological Society (APS) - Ageing -
  • Quick access to useful references and articles.
• Dementia Australia Education  
  • Dedicated page on education for health professionals.
• Victorian Geriatric Medicine Training Program 
  • Provides links to the different training modules of Geriatric Assessment, Falls and Balance, Legal Issues, Ageing, Medications, Dementia, Continence and Delirium with information and links under each module.
• Victoria Department of Health
  • Geriatric Evaluation and Management (GEM) - provides care in which the primary clinical purpose or treatment goal is improving the functioning of a person with multidimensional needs.
  • Conducting a comprehensive geriatric assessment - a person centred approach to find out what matters to our older patients to maximise their strengths, functional independence and outcomes.

International Associations

• Alzheimer's Association
• American Psychiatric Association
• American Geriatrics Society
• Canadian Geriatrics Society
• Gerontological Society of America
• British Geriatrics Society
• National Association for Geriatric Education (US)
• Scottish Care of Older People (SCoOP) project 

Monash Health Library provides educational resources, group training, webinars and individual consultations on evidence based practice including guidance on literature searching, appraising and managing search results.

Can’t attend our live webinars?

• The library has a selection of recorded webinars available in Latte.
• Consider requesting group training for your team at a time that suits you. 

Custom training sessions can be arranged to fit with a team meeting or existing professional development schedule. Email library@monashhealth.org for more information.