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Rheumatology Board Meeting Summary | Spring 2025

ABIM

In 2024, 82% of ABIM Board Certified rheumatologists due for an assessment opted for the LKA over the traditional, 10-year MOC exam. Thousands of subspecialists are also using the LKA to reinstate their lapsed certifications in internal medicine. The need for further research in this area with physician input is essential.

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Deprescribing Super Special III: Constance Fung, Emily McDonald, Amy Linsky, and Michelle Odden

GeriPal

Join us as we dive deeper into these studies and discuss the implications for clinical practice and patient care. And our next guest is Amy Linsky, who’s a physician and researcher at the VA Boston Healthcare System and associate professor at Boston University University. Ethical and practical. Alex 00:24 Great.

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Urinary Incontinence Revisited: George Kuchel & Alison Huang

GeriPal

Accreditation In support of improving patient care, UCSF Office of CME is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team. Right, right.

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Hematology Board Meeting Summary | Spring 2025

ABIM

Of note, 14,777 physicians have been ABIM Board Certified in Hematology since it was first offered in 1972, with 10,730 currently maintaining valid certification and 7,445 simultaneously maintaining certification in internal medicine.

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Infectious Disease Board Meeting Summary | Spring 2025

ABIM

Representatives from the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA) and the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America (SHEA) joined for a portion of the meeting*. A small number of infectious disease physicians are dual-certified, meaning they maintain an additional certification—the largest number (208) in critical care medicine.

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Anxiety in Late Life and Serious Illness: A Podcast with Alex Gamble and Brianna Williamson

GeriPal

Alex is a triple-boarded (palliative care, internal medicine, and psychiatry) assistant professor of medicine at Stanford. ABIM MOC credit will be offered to subscribers in November, 2024. The question I would ask is, how helpful is that in our clinical practice? AMA PRA Category 1 credit(s) â„¢.

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Hastening Death by Stopping Eating and Drinking: Hope Wechkin, Thaddeus Pope, & Josh Briscoe

GeriPal

Yeah, but I mean, in healthcare you need to appreciate the risks, benefits and alternatives of the proposed intervention. This is just because this arose organically in clinical practice as a way of balancing these underlying competing ethical issues. But it’s a risk, right? Alex 17:35 Can I interject here?

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