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Geriatric Medicine Board Meeting Summary | Spring 2025

ABIM

Since 2013, ABIM Specialty Boards have been required to include at least one physician member primarily engaged in community practice, defined broadly in applications as “clinical practice in a non-university, community setting.”

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

GeriPal

In our third segment, we explore Amy Linskys study that examined the effect of patient-directed educational materials on clinician deprescribing of potentially low-benefit or high-risk medications, such as proton pump inhibitors, high-dose gabapentin, or risky diabetes medications. Ethical and practical. So at six months.

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The Angry Patient: A podcast with Dani Chammas and Keri Brenner

GeriPal

It’ll come out in these deviant behaviors, just like you mentioned earlier, where maybe we stave off seeing that patient, send the medical student instead or delay that visit till the end of the day. Not my normal clinical practice. We’ll act it out. I started bending over backwards. Definitely a deviation.

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