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Project ECHO Rheumatology - Rationale and Results from a Multi-Method Study to Capture Impact [Musculoskeletal and rheumatology]

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context Project ECHO (Extension for Community Healthcare Outcomes) is a virtually-delivered health professions education model, designed to improve patient care by enhancing primary care capacity in specialty topics. Clinicians from rural and Northern Ontario particularly benefited as access to specialists in their areas was sparse to none.

Primary Care

Primary Care Management Diagnose Clinical Practice

Episode 148: Antiracism in Medicine Series Episode 4 – Dismantling Race-Based Medicine Part 2: Clinical Perspectives

The Clinical Problem Solvers

DECEMBER 16, 2020

Nwamaka Eneanya and Jennifer Tsai to discuss the limitations and harms of race-based medicine in clinical practice. Our guests explain how we can incorporate race-conscious medicine in clinical settings, medical education, and biomedical/epidemiological research to responsibly recognize and address the harms of racial inequality.

Clinic

Clinic Education Clinical Practice Patient-Centered

Working Out – Dan Minter

The Clinical Problem Solvers

SEPTEMBER 28, 2019

From these conversations, they identified four general “themes”: (1) consistent learning efforts, (2) rigorous skills development, (3) developing “habits of the mind,” and (4) seeking out clinically rich working environments. These clinicians recount rigorous efforts directed towards improving their knowledge and clinical skills.

Lab Testing

Lab Testing Clinic Education Clinical Practice

Urinary Incontinence Revisited: George Kuchel & Alison Huang

GeriPal

JUNE 20, 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

IT Patient-Centered Patients Clinic

Parental Awareness of and Agreement With the American Academy of Pediatrics Clinical Practice Guideline for Obesity Treatment [Obesity, exercise and nutrition]

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

In 2023, the American Academy of Pediatrics released new clinical practice guidelines (CPG) for the evaluation and treatment of pediatric obesity. Most had overweight or obesity (29% and 34%, respectively), and 15% had a child diagnosed with overweight or obesity by a doctor. Very few parents (5%) were aware of the CPG.

Clinical Practice

Clinical Practice Clinic Education Primary Care

Scope This! A Podcast on Gastroesophageal Reflux and Gastritis

PEMBlog

OCTOBER 2, 2024

I’ll make the important distinction between gastritis – which is diagnosed only via endoscopy – and dyspepsia, the term best used to describe the symptoms many patients experience. I’ll dive into the latest clinical practice guidelines and discuss evidence-based approaches to diagnosis and treatment.

Diagnosis

Diagnosis Management IT Patient-Centered

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

GeriPal

JANUARY 18, 2024

In particular, we talk about Katie’s and Jesica’s paper in NEJM titled “ Juggling Two Full-Time Jobs — Methadone Clinic Engagement and Cancer Care ,” which described the difficulty in managing cancer pain and methadone for opioid use disorder. AMA PRA Category 1 credit(s) ™. Who do we have with us today? Katie, welcome back to GeriPal.

Illness

Illness Patient-Centered Screening Clinic

Anxiety in Late Life and Serious Illness: A Podcast with Alex Gamble and Brianna Williamson

GeriPal

JUNE 27, 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.

Illness

Illness IT Diagnosis Patient-Centered

Social Workers as Leaders on Palliative Care Teams: A Podcast with Barbara Jones

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

Jennifer Temel study did not have a social worker as part of the clinical team. Eric: … social work-led research, social work-led clinical program. And again, Arden was able to produce that paper when she was both practicing and studying in a PhD program, right? So … Barbara: Yeah. And I love that podcast.

IT

IT Families Family Clinic

How to Make an Alzheimer’s Diagnosis in Primary Care: A Podcast with Nathaniel Chin

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

So, the question becomes, what, if anything, should we do differently in the primary care setting to diagnose the disease? We address the following questions with Nate: Has anything changed for the primary care doctor when diagnosing Alzheimers? So let’s just say you have a healthy 55 year old or 65 year old in your clinic.

Primary Care

Primary Care Diagnosis Screening IT

PC for Patients with Substance Use Disorder: Janet Ho, Sach Kale, Julie Childers

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Substance use disorder is one of those complex issues in which clinical practice is changing rapidly. Sach Kale set up an outpatient clinic focused on substance use disorder for patients with cancer. Do you need to be an addiction medicine trained physician to start such a clinic (no: Sach is not). What do they do?

Patients

Patients Clinic Patient-Centered Illness

The importance of social connection: Julianne Holt-Lunstad, Thomas Cudjoe, & Carla Perissinotto

GeriPal

APRIL 13, 2023

Are there meaningful ways of assessing loneliness and social isolation in clinical settings and connecting patients with interventions? The Listening “EAR” approach that simplifies assessment of loneliness and social isolation in clinical settings, and other practical pointers.

IT

IT Community Patient-Centered Medical

Surrogate Decision Making: Bernie Lo and Laurie Dornbrand

GeriPal

APRIL 4, 2024

She was resuscitated by EMS, but did not regain higher brain function, and was eventually diagnosed as being in a persistent vegetative state. In case you miss the introductions at the start of the podcast, Bernie and Laurie are married, and offer wonderful reminiscence of their clinical practice over the last several decades.

Families

Families Family Patient-Centered IT

Cachexia and Anorexia in Serious Illness: A Podcast with Eduardo Bruera

GeriPal

JUNE 13, 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.

Illness

Illness Patient-Centered Patients IT

Pragmatic Trial of ACP: Jennifer Wolff, Sydney Dy, Danny Scerpella, and Jasmine Santoyo-Olsson

GeriPal

MARCH 27, 2025

Summary Transcript CME Summary A pragmatic trial evaluates the effectiveness of a treatment or intervention in real-world clinical practice. Eric 08:37 And that’s because you randomized clinics, you didn’t randomize patients interventions. We did it by the clinic level. Is that right?

Primary Care

Primary Care IT Clinic Patient-Centered

Sexual Function in Serious Illness: Areej El-Jawahri, Sharon Bober, and Don Dizon

GeriPal

JUNE 6, 2024

Sharon Bober, clinical psychologist at DFCI, notes that clinicians can get caught in an anxiety cycle, in which they are afraid to ask, don’t ask, then have increased anxiety about not asking. And it actually came up during a clinical encounter that I had. Clearly this issue is important to patients. Sharon, welcome to Jerry Powell.

Illness

Illness IT Physicals Patients

Primary Care Digest

Project ECHO Rheumatology - Rationale and Results from a Multi-Method Study to Capture Impact [Musculoskeletal and rheumatology]

Episode 148: Antiracism in Medicine Series Episode 4 – Dismantling Race-Based Medicine Part 2: Clinical Perspectives

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Working Out – Dan Minter

Urinary Incontinence Revisited: George Kuchel & Alison Huang

Parental Awareness of and Agreement With the American Academy of Pediatrics Clinical Practice Guideline for Obesity Treatment [Obesity, exercise and nutrition]

Scope This! A Podcast on Gastroesophageal Reflux and Gastritis

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

Anxiety in Late Life and Serious Illness: A Podcast with Alex Gamble and Brianna Williamson

Social Workers as Leaders on Palliative Care Teams: A Podcast with Barbara Jones

How to Make an Alzheimer’s Diagnosis in Primary Care: A Podcast with Nathaniel Chin

PC for Patients with Substance Use Disorder: Janet Ho, Sach Kale, Julie Childers

The importance of social connection: Julianne Holt-Lunstad, Thomas Cudjoe, & Carla Perissinotto

Surrogate Decision Making: Bernie Lo and Laurie Dornbrand

Cachexia and Anorexia in Serious Illness: A Podcast with Eduardo Bruera

Pragmatic Trial of ACP: Jennifer Wolff, Sydney Dy, Danny Scerpella, and Jasmine Santoyo-Olsson

Sexual Function in Serious Illness: Areej El-Jawahri, Sharon Bober, and Don Dizon

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