Remove 2025 Remove Clinical Practice Remove Education Remove Healthcare Professional
article thumbnail

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

GeriPal

Next, we turn to Emily McDonald, the director of the Canadian Medication Appropriateness and Deprescribing Network , to discuss her study on the impact of direct-to-consumer educational brochures on gabapentin deprescribing. Additionally, clinicians participated in monthly educational sessions. Ethical and practical.

article thumbnail

What You Should Know About Radiation Oncology: Anish Butala, Emily Martin and Evie Kalmar

GeriPal

During my training, I didn’t receive much education about radiation oncology, and I’m not entirely sure what some of the terms mean (hypofractionated means fewer sessions, right?). Anish 07:54 I would say sort of echoing what Emily was just referring to is education is key. So I think education is key.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

PC for Patients with Substance Use Disorder: Janet Ho, Sach Kale, Julie Childers

GeriPal

Substance use disorder is one of those complex issues in which clinical practice is changing rapidly. We’ve all been taught through fellowship or through clinical practice about how to assess pain. ABIM MOC credit will be offered to subscribers in November, 2025. But one of those facets is pain.

article thumbnail

Potentially Unsafe Low-evidence Treatments: Adam Marks, Laura Taylor, & Jill Schneiderhan

GeriPal

We and our guests have noticed that in our clinical practices, patients and caregivers seem to be asking for such treatments more frequently. ABIM MOC credit will be offered to subscribers in November, 2025. An increasing number of federal leaders have a track record of endorsing such products. Ivermectin to treat cancer.

article thumbnail

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

GeriPal

This is just because this arose organically in clinical practice as a way of balancing these underlying competing ethical issues. Hope 48:31 Minimal comfort feeding, massive education, and consider what minimal comfort feeding for even moderate dementia might look like. Alex 17:35 Can I interject here? Eric 48:23 Yeah, great.

IT 87
article thumbnail

Pragmatic Trial of ACP: Jennifer Wolff, Sydney Dy, Danny Scerpella, and Jasmine Santoyo-Olsson

GeriPal

Summary Transcript CME Summary A pragmatic trial evaluates the effectiveness of a treatment or intervention in real-world clinical practice. There’s also education that goes with it, educating, like, what does that mean? So the idea is to really normalize advanced care planning as part of clinical workflows.