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2025 POP! Keynote Revealed

California Academy of Family Physicians (CAFP)

Keynote, Emily Silverman, MD is an internal medicine doctor in San Francisco and Founder of The Nocturnists , an award winning podcast. She has a new 13-part documentary series called the Uncertainty in Medicine. Emily is an internal medicine doctor in San Francisco and Founder of The Nocturnists. Our 2025 POP!

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Geriatric Medicine Board Meeting Summary | Spring 2025

ABIM

Expanding ABIM’s engagement with stakeholder communities such as early career physicians, specialty societies and patient-focused organizations. Looking at ABIM physicians, 11,374 physicians have been certified in geriatric medicine since it was first offered in 1988, with 4,740 currently maintaining a valid certification.

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Overtreatment of prostate cancer in the active surveillance era

Common Sense Family Doctor

Concerns about overdiagnosis of clinically insignificant prostate cancer through prostate specific antigen (PSA) screening motivated the 2018 American Academy of Family Physicians’ (AAFP) recommendation against routine screening for prostate cancer. Explaining the AAFP’s position, Drs. and 6.1%, respectively).

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Episode 236: ARM Episode 16 – Live from SGIM: Best of Antiracism Research at the Society of General Internal Medicine’s 2022 Annual Meeting

The Clinical Problem Solvers

Dr. Okah is a family medicine clinician and NRSA research fellow at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine, and she studies the association between the use of race in medical decision-making and beliefs regarding the etiology of disparities in health outcomes. Essien MD, MPH, Jazzmin Williams, Alec J. Orlando, FL.

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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. So I think as palliative care clinicians, we use narrative as we try to understand more about the persons that we’re caring for and their families.

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Stories We Tell Each Other to Heal: Ricky Leiter, Alexis Drutchas, & Emily Silverman

GeriPal

But at the end of the day, I actually view medicine more as an applied science. So we take that science and we apply it to something that’s very messy and chaotic, like a human being or a community or a population. And it was born when I was a medical resident at UCSF Internal Medicine. Emily 06:27 Yes.

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Plenary Abstracts at AAHPM/HPNA: Yael Schenker, Na Ouyang, Marie Bakitas

GeriPal

We covered some of our questions on the podcast, others you can ponder on your own or in your journal clubs, including: Maries tele/video palliative care intervention was tailored/refined with the help of a community advisory board. Eric 04:27 Yeah, I gotta ask about the community advisor. So I don’t want my Marin community to.