ABIM

MAY 7, 2025

The rigorous, formalized blueprint review process includes several steps to gather feedback from physicians, medical specialty societies and medical educators. Read Full Article Close Article Important certification and MOC dates Enrollment and Registration Enrollment for all assessments is currently open.

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ABIM

JUNE 17, 2025

Reau, MD Dr. Reau is ABIM Board Certified in Gastroenterology and Transplant Hepatology, specializing in viral hepatitis. Those questions prompt me to review an article or revisit a concept, and I end up learning something useful. I’m definitely a better educator and a more knowledgeable doctor because of it. By Nancy S.

Internal Medicine 40

Internal Medicine Board-Certified Patient-Centered Specialization 40

PEMBlog

JUNE 14, 2023

These articles will take another look at the content included in this episode. Special thanks to Manpreet Singh, MD ( @MprizzleER ) for helping to put this collaboration together.

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Mental Health Management Patient-Centered Illness 98

PEMBlog

MAY 31, 2023

These articles will take another look at the content included in this episode. Special thanks to Manpreet Singh, MD ( @MprizzleER ) for helping to put this collaboration together.

Management 91

Management Patient-Centered Transportation Finance 91

PEMBlog

MAY 17, 2023

These articles will take another look at the content included in this episode. Special thanks to Manpreet Singh, MD ( @MprizzleER ) for helping to put this collaboration together.

Patient-Centered 71

Patient-Centered Mental Health Management Transportation 71

The Motivated MD

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Housing Aside from educational debt, housing is commonly the largest expense we will make in our lives. Last time, we published an article comparing renting versus purchasing a home. This could be debt elimination, saving for your children’s education, or maxing out all your tax-advantaged retirement accounts.

Finance 52

Finance Insurance Individual IT 52

Aspiring Minority Doctor

DECEMBER 17, 2023

Okay, now I'll admit I've done a horrible job of keeping up with the blog lately especially given that this is only my fifth post of the year, but today is still super special for me. Academically, I recently submitted a journal article this month, so I'm excited for its release as well, although it will likely be sometime next year.

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GeriPal

MAY 11, 2023

It’s just another example of, I think, that there’s a little extra special sauce there in the Beeson program. Certainly education, quality of education is extremely important. Some of them, like education, definitely social determinants of health. AlexSmithMD Transcript Eric: Welcome to the GeriPal Podcast.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 12, 2023

If you want to do a deeper dive in ACE units, check out some of the following articles: The original NEJM paper on ACE units from 1996. Number three, this specialized prepared environment that promotes safe mobility and cognitive stimulation and delirium prevention, so sort of environmental changes. Kellie: Yes. Eric: Kellie Flood?

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 19, 2025

The number of nurse practitioners specializing in geriatrics has more than tripled since 2010, increasing the availability of care to the current population of seniors, a recent study in JAMA Network Open found. Their growth has bolstered primary care, and, like doctors, they can specialize in particular branches of medicine.

Nurse Practitioner 52

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The Motivated MD

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

For the better half of 2024, I have been periodically writing posts that are individual articles that double as potential chapters to a future book. From the moment you start post-graduate education (internship and residency), this is seen as a physician’s first ‘real job.’

Finance 52

Finance Individual Education Healthcare Professional 52

GeriPal

JANUARY 25, 2024

The article we discuss today, also published in JAMA , addresses these two gaps. But we put in a lot of extra time to get certified as a… I’m a certified nurse educator, my twin sister is a certified emergency department nurse. AMA PRA Category 1 credit(s) ™. We joke about this a lot. Or telephone calls, I should say.

Patient-Centered 123

Patient-Centered IT Illness Patients 123

GeriPal

MAY 22, 2025

And I was looking for articles, and I wasn’t seeing as many as I expected. Jenny 04:45 Like, the last article was, like, 10 years ago. My voice is nothing special. Eric 11:13 And, Tyler, that’s why I loved your article at J Gym on bringing music and benefits to patients at the bedside. Alex 09:00 Not true.

IT 98

IT Patient-Centered Patients Board-Certified 98

PEMBlog

MAY 24, 2023

These articles will take another look at the content included in this episode. Special thanks to Manpreet Singh, MD ( @MprizzleER ) for helping to put this collaboration together. We have developed a series of pain focused episodes.

Management 55

Management Patient-Centered Physicals Transportation 55

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Accreditation In support of improving patient care, UCSF Office of CME is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

IT 137

IT Family Families Physicals 137

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

So in preparation for this, I read a couple articles about social work leadership in palliative care. And the title of his article is, does culture of modern day palliative care social work leave room for leadership, where he interviewed six leaders in palliative care, five or six for social workers. .” Eric: All right, Barbara.

IT 102

IT Family Families Clinic 102

The Clinical Problem Solvers

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

There is a special emphasis on the use of public health models that prioritize harm reduction and person-centered care to prevent drug-related fatalities and curb the opioid epidemic along lines of race and class. Building Bridges Between Evidence and Policy in Mental Health Services Research: Introducing the Policy Review Article Type.

Community 52

Community Patient-Centered Mental Health Board-Certified 52

GeriPal

JULY 28, 2022

Alex: And we are also delighted to welcome Areej El-Jawahri, who is an oncologist at Massachusetts General Hospital as well, who specializes in blood cancers. And I just want to highlight, Jennifer has a great JPSM article that just came out. Would you also just mind mentioning kind of the JPSM article too? Jennifer: Thanks.

Illness 111

Illness Hospital Patient-Centered Patients 111

GeriPal

APRIL 4, 2024

Arguing for the state of Missouri against the Cruzan’s was Ken Starr, who would later be assigned the role of special prosecutor in the investigation of the Clintons (Whitewater, Lewensky, etc). You write about this, you’ve written this New England Journal article, you’ve written past articles.

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Family Families Patient-Centered IT 113

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Accreditation In support of improving patient care, UCSF Office of CME is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

IT 127

IT Patient-Centered Illness Education 127

GeriPal

APRIL 14, 2022

And if you want to learn more about buprenorphine from these amazing palliative care clinicians and others, check out of some of these articles: Learn more about caring for those with substance use disorder: . Article on buprenorphine in the elderly. We got some really special guests with us. Transcript. This is Eric Widera.

Illness 103

Illness Patient-Centered IT Patients 103

GeriPal

MARCH 24, 2023

For a deeper diver into these issues, check out some of the following links: Ira’s Stat new article “Hospice care needs saving” GeriPal’s episode on the growing role of private equity in hospice care Acquisitions of Hospice Agencies by Private Equity Firms and Publicly Traded Corporations. Ira: I like the article. Thank you, Anne.

IT 115

IT Provider Patients Family 115

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

So I make the point, they often say, “Oh, you have this special population,” like pediatrics, where it’s 10% or something. So I would say that a lot of the education we received were on cutting edge research and the latest drugs in clinical trials, the latest cellular therapies that are coming out.

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Patient-Centered IT Patients Clinic 130

GeriPal

AUGUST 11, 2022

There was a Stanford article talking about you as a pioneer in this field. Brian: I guess I’m thinking about hearing all this as a more recent product of medical education here. And learners were excited about it and interested in it because a lot of these people were fantastic educators. Susan: Thank you. Susan: Great.

Illness 110

Illness IT Family Families 110

GeriPal

APRIL 28, 2022

He uses comics and other artwork to share his experiences in palliative care and educate others about topics like empathy and communication skills. And then also potentially from an educational standpoint. So this one really hit home for me as a great educational tool. Eric: Do you use this also in more formal education?

IT 145

IT Hospital Patients Illness 145

GeriPal

MAY 8, 2025

So in our trial, because of security reasons, we are required by Health Canada to store the substance in a special secure area in my office. And it kind of made its way into medicine probably around, I’m going to say the 50s after there was a fairly interesting Time Life article that was published. James 01:34 Yeah, right on.

Illness 109

Illness IT Patient-Centered Patients 109

GeriPal

JUNE 5, 2025

Despite these substantial needs, specialized palliative care beyond hospice is rare in nursing homes. How to think about primary and specialized palliative care in this setting. But some of these things are addressable potentially through education. Many also suffer from distressing symptoms like pain. What do we know about.

Nurse Practitioner 78

Nurse Practitioner Referral Consulting Board-Certified 78

GeriPal

APRIL 10, 2025

primary palliative care interventions seem to fail, whereas specialized palliative care interventions have a relatively robust track record of success. Eric 19:30 Should we add that to special effects as our producer? The one thing that we know is that education alone will not actually deliver behavior change. No difference.

Patient-Centered 78

Patient-Centered IT Hospital Patients 78

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

And for this podcast in particular, both Bill and Louise wrote articles that we’re going to be discussing particular patient cases. So while you don’t have to, we’re gonna summarize these articles. If you have a chance to read those articles before you listen to this podcast, I highly recommend that you do.

Patients 98

Patients IT Patient-Centered Hospital 98

GeriPal

OCTOBER 17, 2024

I’d also like to give a shout out to a recent ACP article on HFpEF with an outstanding contribution from Ariela Orkaby, geriatrician extraordinaire (we also just did a podcast with her on frailty ). ** This podcast is not CME eligible. Because I think we have someone special, a guest host. This is Eric Widera. He’s in Boston.

Primary Care 114

Primary Care Patient-Centered IT Patients 114

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

A great Curbsiders podcast episode on Trauma-informed care with Megan Gerber CAPCs Trauma-informed care toolkit Mariahs article on Home-Based Care for LGBTQ or another diverse gender identity Older Adults ** This podcast is not CME eligible. Eric 27:08 I’m going to also call out Mariah’s article in jags. Kate 01:09 Yeah.

Patient-Centered 67

Patient-Centered IT Individual Screening 67

GeriPal

JUNE 29, 2023

This week we’re going on to episode two, which is for me one of the most special episodes we’ve done in GeriPal for a very, very long time. Eric: And in the end, we have a very special part where we actually get a tour of their gardens outside of the hospice unit. Alex: This is Alex Smith. Any thoughts about that?

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IT Family Families Board-Certified 97

GeriPal

APRIL 6, 2023

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. In addition to that long list, I was also a chaplain educator. It meets in-person, once a month, over nine sessions. Where are my colleagues?”

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IT Patient-Centered Family Families 99

GeriPal

MARCH 20, 2025

To delve into these questions, we spoke with Hope Wechkin, medical director of EvergreenHealth home hospice, who authored an article describing a process of Minimal Comfort Feeding (MCF) for patients who have expressed an interest in not wanting to live with advanced dementia. Thaddeus, you wrote an article in JAGS not too long ago.

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IT Patient-Centered Patients Medical 89

GeriPal

MARCH 10, 2022

She’s a geriatric nurse practitioner specializing in palliative care, and assistant professor at the University of Maryland School of Nursing. And to keep it short work for an article. Eric: Ruth, where do we go from here with these pretty … it’s not just, “Let’s educate family and staff.

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Nurse Practitioner Hospital Family Families 60

GeriPal

DECEMBER 5, 2024

– @AlexSmithMD Here’s a link to an article about the Palliative Story Exchange. ** This podcast is not CME eligible. So has a special resonance for, I think, a lot of people who are Tragically H ip fans. I can remember two instances of storytelling in training or in education, I guess. Alex 07:35 Can I interject here?

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IT Community Patients Family 108

GeriPal

DECEMBER 7, 2023

-@AlexSmithMD Additional links: JAMA paper on clinical research risks, climate change, and health Geriatric medicine in the era of climate change Health Care Without Harm: [link] Practice Green Health: [link] Global Consortium for Climate and Health Education: [link] Transcript Eric: Welcome to the GeriPal podcast. This is Eric Widera.

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