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Exploring Medical Trainees Perspectives on Narrative Medicine Education and Narrative Humility [Qualitative research]

Annals of Family Medicine

Population Studied: Participants were mainly medical students, as well as residents and clinicians. Intervention: We designed an hour-long student-led workshop to present to event attendees, focusing on narrative structures, their powerful influence on the illness experience, and the concept of narrative humility.

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Deprescribing Super Special III: Constance Fung, Emily McDonald, Amy Linsky, and Michelle Odden

GeriPal

These findings and the two studies Michelle mentions in the podcast ( DANTE and OPTIMIZE ) suggest that carefully reducing medication use in older adults may help preserve cognitive function. Join us as we dive deeper into these studies and discuss the implications for clinical practice and patient care. Ethical and practical.

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What You Should Know About Radiation Oncology: Anish Butala, Emily Martin and Evie Kalmar

GeriPal

I’m sort of seeing them in clinic for consideration of palliative radiation, they have a lot going on. There were a number of opportunities to be involved in medical oncology and doing medical oncology rotations as a medical student, as an internal medicine residential. There really was very little.

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

GeriPal

Social workers augment a team’s ability to provide whole-person care, often aiding to identify and meaningfully address the wide variety of challenges and unmet needs faced by individuals and families facing serious illness. Jennifer Temel study did not have a social worker as part of the clinical team. So … Barbara: Yeah.

IT 102
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What can we learn from simulations? Amber Barnato

GeriPal

For example, we spend the first half talking about a RCT simulation study of clinician verbal and non-verbal communication with a seriously ill patient with cancer. Amber tells the moving story of how these findings led a clinical colleague, her chief, to question and change his behavior. Welcome to the GeriPal Podcast, Amber.

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Well-being and Resilience: a Podcast with Jane Thomas, Naomi Saks, Ishwaria Subbiah

GeriPal

So whether it’s an encounter with a patient or whether it’s a family meeting or a clinical practice meeting or a feedback session with a fellow, the idea that we have both the ability to be very full and open and also selective and disciplined about how it is that we. I backed into that role. That’s true.

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The Angry Patient: A podcast with Dani Chammas and Keri Brenner

GeriPal

The last time this happened to me I immediately went on the defensive despite years of training in serious illness communication skills. Alex: And we’re delighted to welcome back to the GeriPal podcast, Keri Brenner, who is also a psychiatrist and palliative care doctor and clinical associate professor at Stanford.

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