We’ve designed our comprehensive Study Guides to … help guide your study.

They feature curated high yield articles in Geriatrics from HTT, AJGP, AFP, Checks, RACGP guidelines, with discussions and links to relevant past exam resources, podcasts and original GP Core Content material.

Dr Thomas Perkins

GP Core Content

Module 1	Geriatrics in the AFPs
Unit 1	Case - Advance care directives in  residential aged care
Unit 2	End-of-life care for patients with cancer
Unit 3	Advance care planning
Unit 4	Case - Back pain in a cancer patient
Unit 5	Core palliative medicines
Unit 6	Chronic refractory dyspnoea
Unit 7	Primary palliative care
Unit 8	End of life care
Unit 9	End stage heart failure patients
Unit 10	End of life care - The importance of culture and ethnicity
Unit 11	Palliative care for the patient without cancer [AJGP]
Unit 12	Principles of cancer pain management [AJGP]
Unit 13	Advance care decision making and planning [AJGP]
Unit 14	Home-based palliative care [AJGP]
Unit 15	Medication management of type 2 diabetes in residential aged care [AJGP]
Unit 16	Office-based assessment of cognitive impairment
Unit 17	Current approaches to the pharmacological treatment of Alzheimer’s disease
Unit 18	Falls Prevention in Older Adults
Unit 19	Pitfalls in Managing Falls
Unit 20	Appropriate Prescribing and Deprescribing in older adults
Unit 21	CKD in the Elderly
Unit 22	Dementia
Unit 23	Comprehensive health assessments for adults with intellectual disability living in the community
Unit 24	Eye Care in the Elderly
Unit 25	Aging and Sexuality
Unit 26	Upper Cervical Spinal Injuries in Elderley Patients
Unit 27	Fitness to drive - GP perspectives of assessing older and functionally impaired patients
Unit 28	Clinical practice guidelines and principles of care for people with dementia in Australia
Unit 29	Antibiotic use in residential  aged care facilities
Unit 30	Prevalence and management of diabetes in residential aged care facilities
Unit 31	Vitamin D and the musculoskeletal health of older adults
Unit 32	Clinical considerations for the ageing athlete
Unit 33	Prescribing in the elderly
Unit 34	Diagnosis and management of hearing loss in elderly patients
Unit 35	Pain management in residential aged care facilities
Unit 36	Pruritus in the elderly – a guide to assessment and management
Unit 37	Dementia and driving
Unit 38	Management of urinary incontinence in residential care
Unit 39	Managing undernutrition in the elderly
Unit 40	Management of faecal incontinence in residential aged care
Unit 41	Long-term management of elderly patients taking immunosuppressive medications
Unit 42	Medication management of type 2 diabetes in residential aged care
Module 2	Geriatrics in the Checks
Unit 1	552.1 - Parkinsons Disease
Unit 2	552.2 - Bells Palsy
Unit 3	552.4 - Dementia
Unit 4	546.5 - Elder Abuse
Unit 5	546.6 - Elder Abuse
Unit 6	545.4 - Malnutrition and Depression in an elderly patient
Unit 7	544.1 – Nausea and poor oral intake in an RACF resident
Unit 8	554.2 – Advanced Health Directive
Unit 9	554.3 – Analgesia in Palliative Care
Unit 10	554.4 - Advanced Health Directive
Unit 11	554.5 – Analgesia in Palliative Care
Unit 12	536.1 – Dementia in an RACF resident
Unit 13	536.2 – Chronic Kidney Disease
Unit 14	536.2 – Chronic Kidney Disease
Unit 15	536.5 – Osteoarthritis
Unit 16	536.6 – Heart Failure
Unit 17	525.5 – Dizziness in a 71 yo \| Menieres
Unit 18	525.6 – Deafness in 75 yo - Presbyacusis
Unit 19	526.1 – Palpitations in 73yo \| Atrial Fibrillation + Hyperthyroidism \| Grave’s Disease
Unit 20	526.2 – Mobility decline in 76yo \| Knee replacement \| Iron Deficiency
Unit 21	526.5 – Irregular pulse in a 75yo \| NOACs \| Atrial Fibrillation
Unit 22	527.3 – SOB and Cyanosis in 75yo \| APO
Unit 23	527.4 – Acute Visual Loss in a 73yo \| ARMD
Unit 24	529.1 – Positive FOBT \| Bowel Cancer
Unit 25	529.3 – Pigmented Face Lesion in 72yo \| BCC
Module 3	Geriatrics in HTT
Unit 1	Benign prostatic hyperplasia
Unit 2	Polymyalgia rheumatica and giant cell arteritis
Unit 3	Screening for bowel cancer
Unit 4	Deprescribing and falls prevention
Module 4	Geriatrics in the Guidelines
Unit 1	Safety and Quality - Falls Prevention
Unit 2	RACGP HANDI - Exercises for Falls Prevention
Unit 3	RACGP ATSI Guidelines - Falls
Unit 4	RACGP Red Book - Falls
Unit 5	RACGP Osteoporosis Management - Falls Prevention
Unit 6	Silver Book - Falls
Unit 7	Silver Book - Multimorbidity
Unit 8	Silver Book - Faecal Incontinence
Unit 9	Silver Book - Palliative and end-of-life care
Unit 10	Silver Book - Deprescribing
Unit 11	Silver Book - Medication management
Unit 12	Silver Book - Polypharmacy
Unit 13	Silver Book - Dementia
Unit 14	Silver Book - Behavioural and psychological symptoms of dementia
Unit 15	Short-term pharmacotherapy management of severe BPSD
Unit 16	Silver Book - Osteoporosis
Unit 17	Silver Book - Pain
Unit 18	Silver Book - Dermatology
Unit 19	Silver Book - Mental Health
Unit 20	Silver Book - Infection and Sepsis
Unit 21	Silver Book - Falls
Unit 22	Silver Book - Frailty
Unit 23	Silver Book- Faecal Incontinence
Unit 24	Silver Book - Urinary Incontinence
Unit 25	Silver Book - Care of older LGBTI people
Unit 26	Silver Book - Older Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people

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