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A Mixed Studies Literature Review on Mental Health Perceived Needs of Family Physicians in Infectious Catastrophes [Education and training]

Annals of Family Medicine

exert significant pressure on physicians as they are the frontlines of response. Family physicians' pivotal role in prevention and crisis management exposes them to mental stressors due to the highly demanding circumstances. This can potentially compromise their ability to provide optimal patient care. pandemic, etc.)

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Why did efforts to expand Canadian family medicine residency training to three years fail? An education policy analysis [Education and training]

Annals of Family Medicine

Context: Family physicians in Canada have one of the broadest scopes of practice and shortest postgraduate residency training periods among high income nations. In 2018, the College of Family Physicians of Canada (CFPC) reviewed Canadian family medicine training and determined it must evolve to meet contemporary societal needs.

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A Change of Mind on MOUD: Impact of Messages to Motivate Expanded Access to Buprenorphine in Primary Care Settings [Education and training]

Annals of Family Medicine

Objective: We offered educational videos aligned with key determinants of behavior change and assessed their impact on attitudes and intention to explore MOUD. Intervention: A rural-setting family physician scripted informal videos describing her extensive experience with treating patients with OUD using buprenorphine.

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Primary Cares Most Pressing Needs to Address Opioid Use Disorder [Survey research or cross-sectional study]

Annals of Family Medicine

Context: Opioid use disorder (OUD) continues to increase across the US, with over 105,000 OUD-related deaths reported in a 12-month period ending in October 2023. Study Design and Analysis: The American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP) hosted a year long, monthly Project ECHO ® educational series on OUD.

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Does transitional care management improve outcomes after discharge from the hospital?

Common Sense Family Doctor

Since the turn of the century, the rise of hospitalists and the corresponding decline in the number of office-based family physicians who provide inpatient care for their own patients has magnified the value of optimizing the handoff from hospital-based teams to primary care physicians.

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Direct-to-consumer advertising distorts prescription drugs’ benefits and costs

Common Sense Family Doctor

In 1998, a Letter to the Editor in American Family Physician expressed concerns about the relatively new practice of pharmaceutical advertising directly to patients. The ad states that patients may pay as little as $5 per dose, 4 times per year.… Who could blame a patient for believing the drug doesn’t cost much.

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Advanced Pain Management in Cancer: Janet Abrahm

GeriPal

Janet Abrahm is one of the world’s experts in pain and symptom management for patients with cancer joins us to talk about (among other things): Ketamine for hyperalgesia and allodynia, how to treat dissociative side effects. Eric and I are working on it…maybe by 2023? . For me it’s radiation induced mucositis/esophagitis.