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Should you have a coach? Greg Pawlson, Beth Griffiths, & Vicky Tang

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My wife, who’s a PhD nurse practitioner, who actually was a founding dean of the nursing school at GW, and I were thinking about, well, we’re not sure we want to work for somebody else all the time. You have to, A, have done a geriatrics fellowship and, B, had some ongoing and passed the geri board.

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Telehealth vs In-Person Palliative Care: A Podcast with Joseph Greer, Lynn Flint, Simone Rinaldi, and Vicki Jackson

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Alex 01:43 And we have Simone Rinaldi, who’s a palliative care nurse practitioner and director of nursing for the MGH Division of Palliative Care and Geriat ric medicine. So you’d have to make a solid argument to get it through a review board. Joe, welcome to the GeriPal Podcast. Simone, welcome to GeriPal.

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Substance Use Disorder in Aging and Serious Illness: A Podcast with Katie Fitzgerald Jones, Jessica Merlin, Devon Check

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MOC points per podcast in the American Board of Internal Medicine’s (ABIM) Maintenance of Certification (MOC) program. And here, just to clarify, we’re using that term to mean, people diagnosed with cancer, not necessarily people who were treated with curative intent. Katie, welcome back to GeriPal. Bragging rights. Alex: Yeah.

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