The Physicians Foundation

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

Urgent Need for Solutions to Improve State of Current and Future Physician Wellbeing BOSTON, September 17, 2024 – The Physicians Foundation issued data today showing that the state of wellbeing remains critically low for physicians, with healthcare consolidation exacerbating the issue. In 2024, the survey was conducted online among U.S.

Healthcare 40

Healthcare Medical Student Mental Health Patient-Centered 40

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

The insight started when Carmen, an orthopedic surgeon-researcher, and Katie, a physical therapist- researcher participated in ride-alongs with EMS providers to patient’s homes. And yet, after assisting the older adult to their feet, the EMS providers would leave. ABIM MOC credit will be offered to subscribers in November, 2024.

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Community Transportation IT PCP 114

ABIM

JUNE 4, 2025

In 2024, 77% of eligible ABIM Board Certified endocrinologists who chose an assessment opted for the LKA over the traditional, 10-year MOC exam. Special Consideration IMG Pilot Pathway* In August 2024 , the ABIM Council proposed a pilot model for exceptionally qualified IMGs pursuing accredited subspecialty fellowship in the U.S.

Diabetes 52

Diabetes Board-Certified Telehealth Government 52

GeriPal

JANUARY 25, 2024

Panelists David Bekelman, Lyndsay DeGroot, and Diah Martina have no relationships to disclose. It is the CME activity provider’s responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABIM MOC credit. ABIM MOC credit will be offered to subscribers in November, 2024. In their communities?

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Patient-Centered Illness IT Patients 122

GeriPal

JANUARY 16, 2025

He died in 2024. But you worry that the advance directive does not provide enough guidance for the specific decision at Yael Jo, do you. So it defines unrepresented as someone who lacks decisional capacity to provide informed consent to a particular medical treatment. I’m a little bit of a throwback kind of 70s 80s guy.

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Patient-Centered IT Patients Healthcare 109

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Widera and Smith have no relationships to disclose. Panelists Elissa Kozlov and Desiree Azizoddin have no relationships to disclose. It is the CME activity provider’s responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABIM MOC credit. AMA PRA Category 1 credit(s) ™.

Mental Health 122

Mental Health Patient-Centered Illness Screening 122

GeriPal

JUNE 27, 2024

Widera and Smith have no relationships to disclose. Guests Alex Gamble and Brianna Williamson have no relationships to disclose. It is the CME activity provider’s responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABIM MOC credit. AMA PRA Category 1 credit(s) ™. Eric 24:51 Yeah.

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Illness IT Diagnosis Patient-Centered 129

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

** Claim your CME credit for EP297 “The Nature of Suffering” [link] Note : If you have not already registered for the annual CME subscription ( cost is $100 for a year’s worth of CME podcasts ), you can register here [link] For more info on the CME credit, go to [link] Disclosures: Moderators Drs Widera and Smith have no relationships to disclose.

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IT Family Families Physicals 137

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Widera and Smith have no relationships to disclose. Guest hosts Lynn Flint and Anne Kelly have no relationships to disclose. It is the CME activity provider’s responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABIM MOC credit. AMA PRA Category 1 credit(s) ™.

IT 126

IT Patient-Centered Illness Education 126

GeriPal

JULY 11, 2024

Widera and Smith have no relationships to disclose. Guests Kirsten Engel, Sarah Gillespie-Heyman, Brittany Waterman, & Amy Johnson have no relationships to disclose. It is the CME activity provider’s responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABIM MOC credit.

Patient-Centered 109

Patient-Centered IT Patients Clinic 109

GeriPal

JANUARY 18, 2024

Panelists Katie Fitzgerald Jones and Jessica Merlin have no relationships to disclose. It is the CME activity provider’s responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABIM MOC credit. ABIM MOC credit will be offered to subscribers in November, 2024. Who do we have with us today?

Illness 136

Illness Patient-Centered Screening Clinic 136

GeriPal

JUNE 5, 2025

JAGS 2024 Nursing Home Palliative Care Referral Process, Barriers, and Proposed Solutions: A Qualitative Study. So usually they’ll make recommendations, maybe some medication adjustments or something like that, and then the provider that’s caring for them in house will take over from there. Eric 13:49 Right.

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Nurse Practitioner Referral Consulting Board-Certified 78

GeriPal

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

And I think the question for our field is, is that because the estimates that we have of GFR based on creatinine provide misrepresentation or an inaccurate representation of someone’s kidney function. But you’re right, there has been a shift in policy to incentivize patients and providers to choose home therapies.

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Management Patient-Centered Patients IT 116

GeriPal

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

And so I let him educate me. Potentially harmful elements of that coping mechanism for your relationship with your four year old. And if you look what they did early on, the very first things were relationship rapport building and how was somebody coping with their illness? I sort of called out the coping. Amanda 32:36 Yeah.

Illness 125

Illness IT Patient-Centered Patients 125

GeriPal

APRIL 4, 2024

Widera and Smith have no relationships to disclose. Guest Laurie Dornbrand has no relationships to disclose. Bernie Lo discloses being an Honorarium Recipient and consultant for Takeda starting on 01/23/2024. ABIM MOC credit will be offered to subscribers in November, 2024. AMA PRA Category 1 credit(s) ™.

Family 112

Family Families Patient-Centered IT 112

GeriPal

JANUARY 11, 2024

A planned expansion of MAID to include people with mental illness was placed on hold until March 2024. Panelists Bill Gardner, Sonu Gaind, Leonie Herx have stated they have no relationships to disclose. ABIM MOC credit will be offered to subscribers in November, 2024. They could have a prognosis of years, or decades.

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Illness IT Medical Provider 144

GeriPal

APRIL 6, 2023

To provide context, we are joined by Karen Steinhauser, a social scientist at Duke who has been studying spirituality for years (and published one of the most cited papers in palliative care on factors considered important at the end of life , as well as one of my favorite qualitative papers to give to research trainees ).

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Patient-Centered IT Family Families 99

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

I must admit, though, sometimes it just feels off… inauthentic, as if it’s not a genuine desire to improve our lives as health care providers, but rather a metric to check off or a desire to improve productivity and billing by making the plight of workers a little less miserable. Widera and Smith have no relationships to disclose.

IT 110

IT Healthcare Healthcare Professional Patient-Centered 110

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Panelists Kate Courtright and Scott Halpern have no relationships to disclose. It is the CME activity provider’s responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABIM MOC credit. ABIM MOC credit will be offered to subscribers in November, 2024. and consulting for Papa Health.

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Consulting Hospital Patient-Centered IT 120

GeriPal

JUNE 13, 2024

I feel like I recognize it when I see it, but I struggle to give a clear definition or provide effective ways to address it. Widera and Smith have no relationships to disclose. Guest Eduardo Bruera has no relationships to disclose. ABIM MOC credit will be offered to subscribers in November, 2024.

Illness 133

Illness Patient-Centered Patients IT 133

GeriPal

MARCH 20, 2025

And is there a middle path to provide some degree of comfort while also hastening the end of life? I mean, you know, we’re trying to both honor what, what the surrogate believes is the, the patient’s preference, which we do all the time with all kinds of other medical interventions and provide comfort in a humane way.

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IT Patient-Centered Patients Medical 87

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

Louise 05:02 Yes, well, I don’t know about 2024, but in 2023, yes, it could happen. And it’s not the same, but it does provide information. Widera and Smith have no relationships to disclose. Guests Louise Aronson and Bill Andereck have no relationships to disclose. Would that really happen nowadays?

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Patients IT Patient-Centered Hospital 98

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

So at our cancer center, we have physicians, advanced practice providers. Jennifer 20:48 We don’t, you know, our palliative care team here in the outpatient setting is only physicians and advanced practice providers. So, for example, the intervention visits had to be delivered by a physician or advanced practice provider.

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Patient-Centered IT Patients Hospital 119

GeriPal

APRIL 26, 2024

ELNEC (End-of-Life Nursing Education Consortium) celebrates it’s 25th anniversary in 2025. Some numbers to back it up: ELNEC has trained more than 48,000 providers in a train the trainer model Over 1.5 Some numbers to back it up: ELNEC has trained more than 48,000 providers in a train the trainer model Over 1.5 Doing home care?

Patient-Centered 119

Patient-Centered IT Patients Consulting 119

GeriPal

APRIL 11, 2024

What about ambivalence on the part of the provider? Widera and Smith have no relationships to disclose. Guests Joshua Briscoe, Bryanna Moore, Jennifer Blumenthal-Barby & Olubukunola Dwyer have no relationships to disclose. ABIM MOC credit will be offered to subscribers in November, 2024. So that’s my answer.

Patient-Centered 128

Patient-Centered IT Patients Consulting 128

Maine Academy of Family Physicians

JUNE 21, 2024

Pat Connolly reported on the 2024 Maine Legislative Session: It was a short but busy session in Augusta this year. Providers of abortion and gender affirming care in Maine are effectively shielded from laws in other states by the passage of protection by the legislature. Here in Maine the "shorter" Legislative Session was quite full!

Family Physician 40

Family Physician DO Family Medicine Primary Care 40

GeriPal

AUGUST 1, 2024

Widera and Smith have no relationships to disclose. Guests Anna Pleet, Elizabeth Eckstrom, and Emily Johnston have no relationships to disclose. It is the CME activity provider’s responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABIM MOC credit. AMA PRA Category 1 credit(s) ™.

IT 116

IT Diabetes Chronic Disease Patient-Centered 116

GeriPal

JULY 25, 2024

Widera and Smith have no relationships to disclose. Guests Kara Bischoff, James Deardorff, and Elizabeth Lilley have no relationships to disclose. It is the CME activity provider’s responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABIM MOC credit. AMA PRA Category 1 credit(s) ™.

Family 106

Family Families Patient-Centered Patients 106

GeriPal

MARCH 27, 2025

And interesting enough, this is a really fascinating study that just got published in JAMA I M in December of 2024. And so a lot of it was the facilitators calling out with the approval of the provider to the patients ahead of time to see, like, you have a visit coming up. Widera and Smith have no relationships to disclose.

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Primary Care IT Clinic Illness 79

GeriPal

AUGUST 22, 2024

Healthcare provide. They’re often the ones who are most directly in touch with a grieving family or may have their own concerns about the care that’s being provided and the worth or value of what they’re showing up and doing every day. Widera and Smith have no relationships to disclose. Insurance companies.

IT 113

IT Family Families Patient-Centered 113

Medical Xpress

JUNE 8, 2025

million surfs carried out each year in Victoria, researchers estimate that this could equate to more than 70,000 assists and almost 25,500 cases of first-aid provided by surfers annually. This is the first study to quantify surfer beach -safety actions, providing real-world implications of their impact. With more than 6.3

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Provider Community Medical Diabetes 53

GeriPal

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Or, to phrase the question for 2024, Can AI do better? Algorithms using millions of direct observations of a persons behavior to provide an authentic portrait of the way a person lived? Widera and Smith have no relationships to disclose. After making decisions, many surrogates experience regret, PTSD, and depressive symptoms.

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Patient-Centered IT Patients Healthcare 108