Polypharmacy in the Elderly, Overview of Drug Interactions and Internal Medicine Jeopardy

Course overview

At the conclusion of this program, the participant will be able to: Polypharmacy in the Elderly: Pitfalls, Pearls, and Plan: 1. Recognize factors leading to polypharmacy in the elderly. 2. Define inappropriate medications for elderly patients. 3. Describe tools to screen patients for polypharmacy. 4. Delineate best practices in polypharmacy through patient cases. Overview of Drug Interactions: 5. Identify common drug interaction mechanisms including cytochrome P450 enzymes. 6. Identify ten relevant clinical drug interactions for common medications. 7. Delineate assessment and management strategies for each drug interaction. Internal Medicine Jeopardy: 8. Identify evidenced-based guideline directed pharmacotherapy for select disease states. 9. Identify key therapeutic laboratory indices for selecting pharmacotherapy.