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Geriatric Medicine Board Meeting Summary | Spring 2025

ABIM

Ruiz, MD, Chair, ABIM Geriatric Medicine Board The Geriatric Medicine Board , which meets twice a year and is responsible for oversight of policy and assessment in the specialty, held its spring meeting on March 28, 2025. ABIM and the Geriatric Medicine Board gratefully acknowledge the service of Jorge G.

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Letitia Bridges, MD, MBA, appointed to chief quality officer at The Permanente Federation

Permanente Medicine

She is also a member of the board of directors for The Southeast Permanente Medical Group and Hawaii Permanente Medical Group. She is board certified in general and laparoscopic surgery by the American Board of Surgery. million members. million Kaiser Permanente members.

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Orthopedic Pain Management: When to Skip the Specialist

Priority Physicians

Dr. Jonathan Schmidt Dr. Schmidt is a board-certified family medicine physician with undergraduate degrees in Microbiology and medicine from Southern Illinois University and the University of Illinois. But if you’re a patient of a direct primary care (DPC) practice , you don’t need to guess about orthopedic pain management.

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Our Anxiety Epidemic: How to Stop Fearing the Future

Priority Physicians

We all want to know how to stop fearing the future. Although anxiety appears to be the new malady du jour , much of it is natural and normal. Sometimes, it’s even protective. From an evolutionary standpoint, anxiety is an effective survival mechanism. After all, it saved early man from getting too close to cliffs, which is why we’re here today!

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Trading One Substance for Another: Replacing Alcohol With THC

Priority Physicians

Dr. Jonathan Schmidt Dr. Schmidt is a board-certified family medicine physician with undergraduate degrees in Microbiology and medicine from Southern Illinois University and the University of Illinois. Recreationally, you can have bad symptoms or overdose with THC. What Does THC Do? THC overdose is possible.

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RCT of Palliative Care for Heart Failure and Lung Disease: David Bekelman and Lyndsay DeGroot

GeriPal

MOC points per podcast in the American Board of Internal Medicine’s (ABIM) Maintenance of Certification (MOC) program. ABIM MOC credit will be offered to subscribers in November, 2024. MOC Successful completion of this CME activity, which includes participation in the evaluation component, enables the participant to earn up to 0.75

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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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MOC points per podcast in the American Board of Internal Medicine’s (ABIM) Maintenance of Certification (MOC) program. ABIM MOC credit will be offered to subscribers in November, 2024. After discussing screening options for substance use disorder, we go on to talk about both the treatments for it and the issues that arise. I got this.

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