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FEBRUARY 8, 2024

ABIM MOC credit will be offered to subscribers in November, 2024. So there’s this, what is suffering to the individual, and is there some threshold that we could say, “This is real suffering,” or “This is the suffering we talk about in geriatrics or palliative care”?

IT 137

IT Family Families Physicals 137

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FEBRUARY 15, 2024

ABIM MOC credit will be offered to subscribers in November, 2024. Eric: Well, what are the odds that two family members focus on a similar topic and do research together? laughter] Alex: We love the family theme. All of these are factors that are on the individual level. For any MOC questions, please email moc@ucsf.edu.

Community 114

Community Transportation IT PCP 114

GeriPal

JULY 11, 2024

ABIM MOC credit will be offered to subscribers in November, 2024. I think for families and for other providers who are not trained in that, it’s very hard to predict. As this patient has an x percent mortality in three months, there’s a little more nuance to it, and it isn’t really applied to the individual.

Patient-Centered 109

Patient-Centered IT Patients Clinic 109

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MAY 9, 2024

ABIM MOC credit will be offered to subscribers in November, 2024. Alex: And Sammy Winemaker, who’s a palliative care physician and Associate Clinical Professor at McMaster University in the Department of Family Medicine, Division of Palliative Care. For any MOC questions, please email moc@ucsf.edu. Hsien: Hey, great to be here.

Education 127

Education IT Illness Healthcare 127

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JANUARY 18, 2024

We start off the conversation by talking about whether patients with cancer and cancer pain are really that different, and their paper that was just published on January 11 th in JAMA Oncology showing that substance use disorder is not uncommon in individuals with cancer. ABIM MOC credit will be offered to subscribers in November, 2024.

Illness 136

Illness Patient-Centered Screening Clinic 136

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FEBRUARY 29, 2024

ABIM MOC credit will be offered to subscribers in November, 2024. Eric: I do not want my family to listen to my podcasts. So, I generally don’t listen to the podcast afterwards, nor force them on my family. We’re willing to spend $50,000 a year for individuals for their expensive pharmacy medication.

IT 126

IT Patient-Centered Illness Education 126

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APRIL 6, 2023

Alex Practice-PC Program Information: UCSF’s Practice-PC program is now accepting applications for the 2023-2024 year. Practice-PC is an intentionally interprofessional and cutting edge year-long group continuing education course in palliative care for working professionals from all disciplines, in the Bay Area. LaVera: Yes.

IT 99

IT Patient-Centered Family Families 99

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JANUARY 11, 2024

A planned expansion of MAID to include people with mental illness was placed on hold until March 2024. ABIM MOC credit will be offered to subscribers in November, 2024. So it started off for individuals with a terminal illness. They could have a prognosis of years, or decades. For any MOC questions, please email moc@ucsf.edu.

Illness 144

Illness IT Medical Provider 144

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JUNE 5, 2025

So, how can we improve palliative care for individuals in nursing homes? JAGS 2024 Nursing Home Palliative Care Referral Process, Barriers, and Proposed Solutions: A Qualitative Study. So we see a lot of problems with symptom management, a lot of family conflict. That’s a big question. Cognitive impairment.

Nurse Practitioner 78

Nurse Practitioner Referral Consulting Board-Certified 78

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NOVEMBER 7, 2024

So we created these heat maps where you could see for each individual what actually happened in the days and you. As the caregiver or as a family member of the patient? ABIM MOC credit will be offered to subscribers in November, 2024. And we have these. I’m a visual person. And so are the patients. Are you okay?

Management 116

Management Patient-Centered Patients IT 116

GeriPal

JULY 25, 2024

ABIM MOC credit will be offered to subscribers in November, 2024. This is a particularly interesting topic because we know that individuals with dementia have a high rate of entering nursing home. That just leads to issues that can make home care very difficult for these individuals. So you’re kind of the guest host today.

Family 106

Family Families Patient-Centered Patients 106

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

And that’s where a lot of hospice referrals happen for these individuals when they’re really declining and they get discharged with, with hospice. So I don’t know how clinically meaningful that week difference was to families. This 2024 is the year of AI. So you’re seeing. That’s what.

Patient-Centered 119

Patient-Centered IT Patients Hospital 119

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AUGUST 1, 2024

ABIM MOC credit will be offered to subscribers in November, 2024. And for any, any diet, it can, we can really tweak it to an individual’s preferences, their needs, that kind of thing. So I lived with a family there. Subscribers will claim MOC credit by completing an evaluation with self-reflection questions.

IT 116

IT Diabetes Chronic Disease Patient-Centered 116

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MARCH 27, 2025

And so this is our way of supporting non English speaking families in advanced care planning. And interesting enough, this is a really fascinating study that just got published in JAMA I M in December of 2024. And I have a long interest in identifying family caregivers and supporting them in care delivery. Eric 06:26 Great.

Primary Care 79

Primary Care IT Clinic Illness 79

GeriPal

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Don’t get me wrong, the evidence points to cost savings, but as Chris Callahan and Kathleen Unroe pointed out in a JAGS editorial in 2020 “in comprehensive dementia care models, savings may accrue to Medicare, but the expenses accrue to a fluid and unstable network of local service providers, patients, and their families.” Malaz: I love it.

Patient-Centered 125

Patient-Centered IT Family Families 125

GeriPal

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Or, to phrase the question for 2024, Can AI do better? You basically don’t even ask the family, you just stop the bleeding. Are you encountering family members who are just, like, at a loss for what to do and tortured it? After making decisions, many surrogates experience regret, PTSD, and depressive symptoms.

Patient-Centered 108

Patient-Centered IT Patients Healthcare 108

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

But as we talked to patients and providers, there was, really, this need for patients who wanted services, like IV antibiotics and IV fluids, but wanted to be able to spend that time at home, with their family, even if it meant it was their last days or weeks. And that’s a totally, totally appropriate question. Eric: Yeah.

Hospital 115

Hospital Patient-Centered Supply Chain IT 115

GeriPal

OCTOBER 31, 2024

And I think that disconnect is why people don’t often think of themselves being at risk in the same way, which is more variable in 2024 than in previous years. The impact on families. But turns out that Jan1 and its family are all very similar. Eric 06:48 How are you thinking about Lona? The impact on. I think that was.

Vaccination 127

Vaccination IT Patient-Centered Patients 127