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>Pathways to Primary Care - Charting trajectories from medical school graduation through specialty training [Education and training]

Annals of Family Medicine

Population Studied: US physicians who graduated from medical school 2001-2015. Study Design and Analysis: Retrospective cohort design. Dataset: AMA Physician Masterfile and Historical Residency File (2024). Intervention: None. Outcome Measures: Completion of specialty training programs. 47% (165,386) were women.

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Q&A: Cannabis Use Tied to Reduced Working Memory

Physician's Weekly

Gowin and his colleagues analyzed data from 1,003 adults between 22 and 36 years of age who had functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), urine toxicology, and cannabis use results collected at one academic site between 2012 and 2015 as part of the Human Connectome Project. The cohort (mean age, 28.7

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Episode 392: Antiracism in Medicine – Episode 27 – Racial and Gender Health Disparities in Youth Suicide: Part 2

The Clinical Problem Solvers

Dr. Simon stresses the importance of educational efforts to dismantle biases and calls for greater research attention to this group. He points out that historically, some community spaces have also been sources of harm, so intentional engagement and mental health education are essential. Epub 2015 Dec 1. Psychiatr Serv.

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MyChart Messages the Wild West of Patient Communication

33 Charts

It’s the physics of physician bandwidth: You can’t add something without taking something away. This thread from a 2015 post illustrates how varying needs of a child with ulcerative colitis call for different ways to connect: Take Luke, a school-aged child with moderate ulcerative colitis complicated by sclerosing cholangitis.

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Palliative Rehab?!?: Ann Henshaw, Tamra Keeney, and Sarguni Singh

GeriPal

Physical therapy had walked with him that day and noted improvement compared to previous walks, suggesting that he should be discharged to a skilled nursing facility for rehabilitation on discharge. At the end of the day, I lamented that physical, occupational, and speech therapists aren’t more tightly integrated with palliative care teams.

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Transgender Health, Aging, and Advocacy: A Podcast with Noelle Marie Javier and Jace Flatt

GeriPal

Alex 00:41 And we’re delighted to welcome Noelle Marie Javier, who goes by “she” “her” and is a geriatrician and palliative care doc professor, newly minted – c ongratulations – And a clinician educator at Mount Sinai in New York City. Noelle Marie, welcome to the GeriPal Podcast. Noelle Marie 00:57 Hi, everyone.

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Storycatching: Podcast with Heather Coats and Thor Ringler

GeriPal

Unpacking characteristics of spirituality through the lens of persons of colour living with serious illness: The need for nurse-based education to increase understanding of the spiritual dimension in healthcare. I thought I was going to be a professor or educator, decided I didn’t like that. Sternberg, E., & Rosenfeld, A.