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Psychological Issues in Palliative Care: Elissa Kozlov and Des Azizoddin

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ABIM MOC credit will be offered to subscribers in November, 2024. Eric: So you could probably tell we’re going to be talking about mental health issues. In particular, mental health integration and issues in pain and in palliative care. So how we screen for mental health distress is really important.

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Substance Use Disorder in Aging and Serious Illness: A Podcast with Katie Fitzgerald Jones, Jessica Merlin, Devon Check

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ABIM MOC credit will be offered to subscribers in November, 2024. Our field really lacks specificity in the terms that we use, and I think we really don’t know how chronic cancer pain, let’s say, a few years out from that initial diagnosis differs from, let’s say, chronic low back pain. Katie: Yeah. Jessie: Right.

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Stepped Palliative Care: A Podcast with Jennifer Temel, Chris Jones, and Pallavi Kumar

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Within eight weeks of diagnosis of advanced disease. That’s a lot of appointments that we have to account for over time. They had access to the cancer center resources, but they didn’t have access to sort of regular contact with palliative care mental health professionals. This 2024 is the year of AI.