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

Annals of Family Medicine

Objective: Create a quantitative Sankey diagram of the flow of US physicians from medical school graduation through postgraduate training into PC specialties: family medicine (FM), general internal medicine (IM), and general pediatrics (Peds). Population Studied: US physicians who graduated from medical school 2001-2015.

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“Zoom”ing through virtual interviews

Louisville Lectures

Some people choose to have framed photos of family/pets; one interviewee even had soccer posters! Khushboo Gala Dr. Khushboo Gala is a PGY3 resident in the UofL Internal Medicine Residency Program. Disclaimers ©2015 LouisvilleLectures.org Think about your backdrop. Most people I interviewed with choose a blank wall.

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Storycatching: Podcast with Heather Coats and Thor Ringler

GeriPal

Our loves, our triumphs, our failures, our work, our families. . VA “gets” the importance of storytelling in medicine, without the need for reams of research to back it up. Journal of Palliative Medicine , 23 (6), [link]. Been in the hospital four times, vented, been told the story to her family, she won’t live.

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Is it time for geriatricians to get on board with lecanemab? Jason Karlawish and Ken Covinsky

GeriPal

Eric: So we’ve had an interesting topic today, storytelling and medicine, narrative medicine… We’ll talk about what we should call it, but before we do, Heather, I think you have a song request. Been in the hospital four times, vented, been told the story to her family, she won’t live. Heather: Sure.

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Influence of Hospital Culture on Intensity of Care: Liz Dzeng

GeriPal

On this podcast we talk about her paper in JAMA Internal Medicine which studied three hospitals that varied in the intensity of care they provided to seriously ill patients. ” And they’re like, “Well, it would be unethical not to talk to the family.” ” Whereas in the UK, you ask the same question.

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Aging and the ICU: Podcast with Lauren Ferrante and Julien Cobert

GeriPal

And Lauren Ferrante has found in a study published in JAMA Internal Medicine that trajectories of disability in the year prior to ICU admission were highly predictive of disability post-ICU, on the same order of magnitude as mechanical ventilation. It was this slow build, I would say. Alex: What happens when people survive?

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Prognosis Superspecial: A Podcast with Kara Bischoff, James Deardorff, and Elizabeth Lilley

GeriPal

God, it must have been like 2015, 2016. And so we know that the decision to enter a nursing home is incredibly challenging for families, especially because it often comes with thoughts that they’re, like, abandoning their loved one, really. So, information from, like, a family member, spouse, or a son or daughter.

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