Free Geriatric Education-on-the-Go for Healthcare Workers
In my career as an internist, I purchased high-quality audio CME programs to help me stay current on my areas of medical practice. In recent years though, during walks, I have enjoyed and valued free podcasts like PALTtalk (previously AMDA-on-the-Go), with free CMD credits. There are also great resources at, GeriPal, JAMA Clinical News, Annals-On-Call, Cor IM, and DOC Updates. Adapting information from these podcasts and traditional sources of information (webinars, literature reviews, PALTmed CPGs) to team learning for healthcare workers has been a challenge. CME for team learning is usually an add-on to an already busy schedule. This means it must be clinically relevant, concise, and ideally, brief (< 20 min.).
The GWEP in Wisconsin may be a good resource for this type of team CME. They have a website for Geriatric Fast Facts and have developed a monthly Geriatric Fast Cast podcast (available @ Apple Podcast, Spotify, etc.) that covers important subjects in 8-12 minutes with option for more info on the subject on their website. I just listened to Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) AND Dementia and found it concise, and clinically relevant.
If I were still leading teams in PALTC settings, I would add this website and podcast to my resources for team learning.
Tim Gieseke, MD, CMD
Retired Internist
Past President, CALTCM

