Online Courses

Welcome to the FMEC’s learning management system (LMS). Through this site, the FMEC will host online courses, recorded webinars, and more. A Login to the FMEC site will be required to access content (membership in the FMEC is not required to create an account. To create an account, visit the Member Login page.

Current course offerings are below.

If you have questions, visit our FAQ page or email Denise Steele at [email protected].

Geropalliative Care Series
This six-part online series covers what is geropalliative care, frailty, delirium (understanding the importance and prevention), evidence-based medical prognostication, pre-terminal patients, and the potential harms caused by continuing traditional care. The series is approved for 6.0 AAFP Prescribed Credits, through February 1, 2023.
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Cost
Medical Students:  FREE
Residents:       *Members $50    | Non-members: $80
Professional:  *Members: $120 | Non-members: $150

*FMEC Individual Members (20% discount):   $120.00
This discount applies to individual members (professional and residents) and includes individuals that are members via their FMEC organizational partnership. 
See Partner Benefits for more information or contact [email protected] to confirm eligibility. 

The topic for each video is listed below:

  1. Why Geropalliative medicine must become mainstream for all specialties (54:58)
  2. Geriatric frailty: No one dies of old age (55:26)
  3. “What happened to Grandma?”: Understanding geriatric cognitive and functional decline in delirium (37:39)
  4. Delirium prevention: Keep Grandma the way she was! (40:35)
  5. Evidence-based medical prognostication: Prognostication made easy (sometimes) (44:26)
  6. “If only someone had warned us”: How to recognize pre-terminal patients and the potential harms caused by continuing traditional care (52:48)

The series is approved for up to 6.0 AAFP Prescribed Credits.
Visit Geropalliative Care Series to learn more and register.
Once you have registered, you will follow the link in your confirmation email to a page that has 6 videos numbered 1-6. The FMEC recommends watching the videos in sequential order. At the end of each video, you will be required to take a post-test with 3 to 4 questions to earn CME credit.