ABIM

JUNE 12, 2025

In 2024, 75% of ABIM Board Certified geriatricians who chose an assessment opted for the LKA, while 68% of ABFM geriatricians chose the LKA. At the spring meeting, the Geriatric Medicine Board reviewed candidate materials for two openings and voted to approve the following appointments: Kourosh A.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 23, 2025

The intervention involved mailing medication-specific brochures to patients before their primary care appointments (click here for the brochure ). Join us as we dive deeper into these studies and discuss the implications for clinical practice and patient care. Eric 15:32 Could do this in clinical practice. Connie 14:57 Yeah.

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ABIM

JUNE 11, 2025

In 2024, 75% of infectious disease physicians who chose an assessment opted for the LKA over the traditional, 10-year MOC exam. Some members of the Specialty Board were interested in the LKA experience, participant survey results—particularly responses about fairness—and how LKA performance data might reflect on clinical outcomes.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 25, 2024

You can also listen to an audio interview with Alex and JAMA Deputy Editor Preeti Malani about this study and the other RCT of default palliative care for hospitalized older adults with noncancer serious illness published in the same issue. ABIM MOC credit will be offered to subscribers in November, 2024. Eric: How about you, David?

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

ABIM MOC credit will be offered to subscribers in November, 2024. Is it that they’re clinically depressed or that they’re understandably sad at the situation that they’re in or specific issues? Subscribers will claim MOC credit by completing an evaluation with self-reflection questions. Eric: Yeah.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 16, 2025

He died in 2024. I, for example, had one patient, I remember during my fellowship, I was in geriatrics clinic and had a very well read patient who came in and was reading a New York Times article, I think in the well section at one point. Alex 16:45 That really rings true with my clinical experience.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 18, 2024

In particular, we talk about Katie’s and Jesica’s paper in NEJM titled “ Juggling Two Full-Time Jobs — Methadone Clinic Engagement and Cancer Care ,” which described the difficulty in managing cancer pain and methadone for opioid use disorder. ABIM MOC credit will be offered to subscribers in November, 2024.

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GeriPal

APRIL 4, 2024

The hospital refused without a court order, and the case eventually made its way to the Supreme Court. The Cruzan ruling led to a flood of interest in Advance Directives, and eventually to the Patient Self Determination Act, which mandates provision of information about advanced directives to all hospitalized patients.

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GeriPal

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

Alex 00:26 And we’re delayed to welcome Amanda Moment, who is a palliative care social worker at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston. Somebody shouts at my front Desk staff because they’re pissed off about their appointment time. The clinical trials and the this and that. Dani, welcome back to GeriPal.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Alex 00:34 We are delighted to welcome back Jennifer Tem e l, who is a thoracic oncologist at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. Eric 07:31 A clinical perspective, why is it important to test this stepped care model versus implementing more? Chris 17:25 Yeah, I think a month is pretty uncommon, at least in our clinic.

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GeriPal

APRIL 18, 2024

And I wonder, now, was this 2024 version sort of a redo? And you say, “Okay, that’s fine, but can it really … What about a real live clinical situation?” I think we’re getting closer to real live clinical situations, not just answering a test. That is the first clinical use case.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Or, to phrase the question for 2024, Can AI do better? Does this issue ring true to you clinically? In your clinical, everyday reality, this comes up and say, like, does this ring true to you from your work in the icu, from your work with patients? Can we do better? Teva, I want to go to you. You’re in it. Alex 10:44 No.

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