Geriatric Oncology: Cognition and Communication

Complimentary Virtual Course April 4—5, 2024? This complimentary two-day, live virtual course focuses on communication-based concerns and barriers when interacting with the older cancer patient (including caregivers and family members), evaluation of decision making capacity, as well as how to work with an interpreter for patients who suffer both from dementia and experience a language barrier. The program will include high-level discussions surrounding chemotherapy-related cognitive impairment, distress/anxiety and its affects on cognition, delirium, dementia, and depression.? Also included is a Geriatric Communication Skills Training Workshop on day two which is comprised of a specific experiential learning methodology that will immerse participants in practicing newly taught skills in a simulated relevant clinical environment. AMA PRA Category 1 Credits?, ABIM MOC points, and Social Work, Psychology, and ANCC CNE contact hours will be offered. Registration is complimentary for accepted applicants. Visit msk.org/aging for details or to apply.?

MSK COURSE DIRECTORS

BEATRIZ KORC-GRODZICKI, MD, PHD Chief, Geriatrics Service Department of Medicine Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center Clinical Professor, Medicine Weill Cornell Medical College

PATRICIA A. PARKER, PHD Member and Attending Psychologist Director, Communication Skills Training and Research Program (Comskil) Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center ?

MSK COURSE FACULTY

KOSHY ALEXANDER, MD Assistant Attending, Geriatrician Department of Medicines

YESNE ALICI, MD Clinical Director, Associate Attending Psychiatrist Medical Director, Biobehavioral Brain Health Clinic epartment of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences

SMITA BANERJEE, PHD Associate Attending Behavioral Scientist Member, Comskil Laboratory Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences

NESSA COYLE, NP, PHD, FAAN Consultant, Advanced Practice Nurse

BECKY EWERT, MSOT, OTR/L, CLT, WCC Senior Occupational Therapist

JAVIER GONZáLEZ, MFA Director, Linguistic and Cultural Responsiveness Service

YUELIN LI, PHD Behavioral Statistician

RUTH MANNA, MPH Associate Director Patient Experience Partnerships

CHRISTIAN J. NELSON, PHD Chief, Psychiatry Service Associate Attending Psychologist Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences

ANDY ROTH, MD Attending Psychiatrist Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences

JESSICA STALEY Manager, Comskil Program Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences

TARGET AUDIENCE The target audience for this program includes physicians, social workers, nurses, physical therapists, and any other healthcare professionals who work with or have an interest in working with older adult cancer patients.?Registration is complimentary for accepted applicants.

POST-TRAINING? Post-training, participants will be given access to an interactive web portal for program content resources, a community message board and will be asked to complete follow-up evaluations for research purposes. In the year following the training, course participants will be expected to attend 6 bi-monthly videoconferences to learn additional geriatric oncology content, receive coaching on the use of the newly acquired skills, and help with problem-solving around the transfer of these skills to the participants’ own healthcare settings