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Should you have a coach? Greg Pawlson, Beth Griffiths, & Vicky Tang

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A 2020 RCT of coaching for primary care physicians shows that coaching improves burnout well-being during the intervention and has a sustained duration at 6 months of follow up. Eric: … in geriatrics as a primary care doctor? From Beth Israel and UNC. Greg: Yeah. I teach coaching skills to leaders.

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The Future of Geriatrics: A Podcast with Jerry Gurwitz, Ryan Chippendale, and Mike Harper

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Ryan: For those of you that aren’t familiar, GERI-A-FLOAT stands for Geriatrics Fellows Learning Online and Together it was created amongst the COVID pandemic in 2020 when all of the fellowship rotations were shutting down. How do we train primary care doctors to do geriatrics? Eric: Can I just add it?

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

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That was January 2020. I was, you know, in the ICU over at Brigham and Women’s leading a Covid sort of palliative care team. We had, you know, it was a Monday night in June of 2020. And I turned to my dad and I said, I think mom needs palliative care. And she did have a primary care doctor.

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