Useful links to support education
Societies and Special Interest Groups
Societies and Special Interest Groups
Societies and Special Interest Groups
- Geriatric Emergency Medicine Network is a special interest group within the Australian College of Emergency Medicine (ACEM). You do not need to be a member of the college to join. https://acem.org.au/Content-Sources/Advancing-Emergency-Medicine/Networks/Geriatric-Emergency-Medicine
- International International Federation for Emergency Medicine (IFEM) has a GEM Special Interest Group (GEM SIG)https://www.ifem.cc/geriatric_emergency_medicine_sig
- European European Society for Emergency Medicine (EUSEM) have a Section of Geriatric Medicine who state their mission as ‘to develop GEM through a collaboration between emergency physicians and geriatricians involved in two different societies, European Society for Emergency Medicine (EUSEM) and European Union. https://eusem.org/sections-andcommittees/sections/geriatric-section
- European Geriatric Medicine Society (EuGMS) https://www.eugms.org/home.html European Task Force of Geriatric Emergency Medicine (geriEM) geriEM is a collaborative between EuGMS and EUSEM. They have educational material and a series of posters available and are also developing an educational podcasts https://geriemeurope.eu
- UK British Geriatrics Society special interest group BGS Special Interest Group Frailty in Urgent Care settings has lots of resources https://www.bgs.org.uk/frailty-inurgent-care-settings
- US GEAR Network GEAR identifies gaps in GEM research https://gearnetwork.org/
- American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP) ACEP GEM Section https://www.acep.org/geriatrics/about-us/
- Geriatric Emergency Department Collaborative (GEDC) GEDC is an education portal including hospital and system initiatives to create sustainable improvements for older patients. They run regular educational webinars and have multiple online learning modules https://gedcollaborative.com/.
Online learning resources
Societies and Special Interest Groups
Societies and Special Interest Groups
- Canadian based GEM E-learning modules https://geri-em.com/. These modules are also accessible through the GEDC website. https://gedcollaborative.com/
- Manageing Multiple Medicines website and app provide information and tools to support healthcare professionals, patients and carers in making decisions about taking multiple medications. https://managemeds.scot.nhs.uk/ Report Dissemination and Future
- STOP START tool for working ou which medications to prescribe and deprescribe in older patients https://mm.wirral.nhs.uk/document_uploads/othertopics/STOPP_START_Tool2015.pdf
- GEMCAST is a GEM podcast hosted by Dr. Christina Shenvi in conjunction with the GEDC https://gedcollaborative.com/resources/gemcast/
- Leicester GEM learning EM3 videos https://em3.org.uk/leicgem-lecture-1
- Anticholinergic burden calculator (also available as an app) http://www.acbcalc.com/