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Rheumatology Board Meeting Summary | Spring 2025

ABIM

Chrostowski, DNP, APR-N, ANP-C , asked whether ABIM will offer continuing medical education (CME) credits through the LKA. Thousands of activities are eligible for both MOC and CME via a collaboration with the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education at cmepassport.org.

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Geriatric Medicine Board Meeting Summary | Spring 2025

ABIM

At the spring meeting, the Geriatric Medicine Board reviewed candidate materials for two openings and voted to approve the following appointments: Kourosh A. The group discussed public awareness and transparency of the policy whereby candidates for certification can attempt the certification examination up to eight times.

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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. We just want to educate the patients.

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Podcast: AI, innovation, and value-based care in medicine

Permanente Medicine

I know we go back quite a ways and that this is a very important topic for all of us to really to talk about and to be educated about. I was at an ophthalmology appointment a while back and I was checking in and there was a receptionist, her name was Rosie. Khang Nguyen (01:45): Thank you so much, Chris.

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Interdisciplinary Case Report

CDOCS

Being able to communicate our patient's problems in the third dimension always breaks down barriers to case acceptance as the information gleaned via a CT scan is invaluable for both planning and educating the patient. The Atlantis lab always includes an insertion jig with these kinds of abutments to make the insertion visit a non-event.

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Hearing Loss in Geriatrics and Palliative Care: A Podcast with Nick Reed and Meg Wallhagen

GeriPal

He was an otolaryngologist and epidemiology person too, might have an appointment in geriatrics too. And there’s multiple survival analyses looking at incident dementia, and hearing loss is strong, independently associated with the time to event dementia. He is one of those superstars here.

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Middle to Older Age Latinas Experiences Across the Cervical Cancer Continuum: Screening, Diagnosis, Treatment and Impact [Health care disparities]

Annals of Family Medicine

Participants were recruited via electronic healthcare records, community tabling events, and social media efforts. Cancer Screening: Challenges with making appointments and getting PAP Smears due to time, employment, transportation, and lack of established primary care provider. Our Community Advisory Board (CAB) guided this work.

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