Dr Genevieve Yates is a medical educator, a GP and a writer. Currently she is the RACGP Queensland Censor, RACGP Expert Committee member (Pre-Fellowship Education) and senior examiner, a performance assessor for AHPRA and a member of MDA National’s Education Services Advisory Group (ESAG). She also works as an educator/ facilitator for MDA National and the Black Dog Institute. She is passionate about putting creativity into medicine, and medicine into creativity.

Today we discuss assessing fitness to drive, predictive factors for risky driving, assessment tools, legalities of reporting and much more.  

Some further resources:

Dr Yates youtube clip - https://genevieveyates.com/2015/09/03/dont-just-sign-on-the-dotted-line-assessing-fitness-to-drive/

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5257216/

https://www.racgp.org.au/afp/2012/april/dementia-and-driving/

Trail test - www.rgpeo.com/media/53150/trails%20a%20and%20b.pdf.

Drive Safe Drive Aware app = https://www.pearsonclinical.com.au/products/view/563

https://www.pearsonclinical.com.au/files/245101432704685.pdf

https://fmf.cfpc.ca/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/S183_Driving-and-Dementia_Practical-tips-for-the-family-physician.pdf