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

GeriPal

You have to, A, have done a geriatrics fellowship and, B, had some ongoing and passed the geri board. There is a standard and there’s a certifying agency, the International … Vicky: Coaching Federation, I think. Never took the boards because I was on the writing committee, which was really weird. Vicky: Well?

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

GeriPal

We would make referrals to psycho oncology. I would make referrals to Joe as well as part of the team. Joe 22:08 So just to piggyback on that, the protocol stipulated that the monthly visits would be administered by either, you know, board certified specialty training palliative care physician or an advanced practice provider.

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Implementing Palliative Care in Nursing Homes: A Podcast wtih Connie Cole, Kathleen Unroe, and Cari Levy

GeriPal

The obstacles hindering referrals to palliative care services. We also take a dive into these 2 articles that Connie first authored: Palliative care in nursing homes: A qualitative study on referral criteria and implications for research and practice. And what does that referral process look like? So that part we know and I.

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

GeriPal

MOC points per podcast in the American Board of Internal Medicine’s (ABIM) Maintenance of Certification (MOC) program. Should it just be referral to their PMD, who’s all, “Why are these people telling me to do all this stuff all the time?” ” Thoughts on that? To be prescribing once a day, methadone.

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

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And we got this as a hospice referral, and could we, you know, take her on and support her in hospice? Clinicians certified her as terminally ill because of the V said. MOC points per podcast in the American Board of Internal Medicines (ABIM) Maintenance of Certification (MOC) program. That would be. So you are terminally ill.

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Telemedicine in a Post-Pandemic World: Joe Rotella, Brooke Calton, Carly Zapata

GeriPal

Because pre-pandemic, right, there was issues with you had to be boarded in the state, right? And how are you going to know that when you’re just getting random referrals from teaching hospitals, for example? So it developed all this issue around what is a qualifying referral that would allow me to do telehealth prescribing?