Geriatric Clinic ECHO

Geriatric Clinic ECHO

Program Overview

The Geriatric Clinic ECHO (Extension for Community Healthcare Outcomes) are one hour webinars that take place on the second week of each month on Wednesdays at 12:00 pm.  Topics are designed for medical and health care professional as well as social workers, caretakers and others who work with the elderly.  Topics cover a full range of areas involving elder care such as medical conditions, social services, dementia, nutrition and dysphagia.  Continuing Medical Education credits are available and all videos are recorded and saved along with the presentation material.

 Target Audience

  • Doctors
  • Physician Assistants
  • Nurse Practioners
  • Nurses
  • Allied Health Professionals
  • Social Workers
 

Registration uses the iECHO system. You only need to register once for all webinars listed.  After registering, you may log into your iECHO account to join webinars or wait for a reminder that will be sent to your email approximately 30 minutes before the start of the webinar.

*Please note: After you register, go to https://iecho.org to log into your iECHO account.

Online registration

CMEs are provided to medical professionals and CEUs are also offered to social workers and psychologists.

To receive a CME or CEU, attendants are asked to fill an online evaluation at the end of the webinar.  The link will be provided at the conclusion of the webinar. 

Names and emails of those who filled the evaluation for a CME are forwarded to the Queen's Medical Center's CME office.  To check on your CME records, please contact: cme@queens.org

*Please note: Records are sent to the Queen's CME Office every two months.

Recorded webinars are listed in the Geriatric Clinic ECHO YouTube Playlist.
 
 
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