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Pacific communities co-designing and leading interventions to prevent gout and rheumatic fever in New Zealand [Community based participatory research]

Annals of Family Medicine

Context: After a Samoan patient from New Zealand (NZ) attended a PACE workshop at NAPCRG in 2016 with her general practitioner, she was inspired to set up a Pacific community group to work towards better health outcomes for Pacific people living in South Auckland, NZ.

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Plastic Surgery Intern Year: Catching up on 6 months of Updates

Aspiring Minority Doctor

I love my Plastic Surgery residency family! One part of me loves being able to relax at home, shower, and sleep in my own bed during my call shifts, but the other part of me did not like all the gas I used having to drive back and forth between the two hospitals I was covering for consults, or the fact that home call means no post call days.

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Transforming the Culture of Dementia Care: Podcast with Anne Basting, Ab Desai, Susan McFadden, and Judy Long

GeriPal

He wrote a book titled “ Psychiatric consultation in long term care ” that has a strengths based approach to staging dementia (how cool is that). She directs UCSF MERI’s patient, family, and clinician support with classes and consultation on resiliency, well-being, and grief. Anne: Is there a movement? I love them.

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Surgical Communication: A Podcast with Gretchen Schwarze, Justin Clapp and Alexis Colley

GeriPal

Gretchen: Yeah, I think probably the underlying story here is that I’m really good at doing negative randomized clinical trials, but there is a good thing about doing a big clinical trial, which is that you get tons of data even if you don’t end up with the result that you want. And that’s how we connected.

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Stepped Palliative Care: A Podcast with Jennifer Temel, Chris Jones, and Pallavi Kumar

GeriPal

Eric 07:31 A clinical perspective, why is it important to test this stepped care model versus implementing more? And now when I think about the clinic at Duke, when we’re really running on all cylinders, we can get ourselves up to a five, six, seven week wait for a new palliative care referral. Jennifer 07:31 From.

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Grief, Loss, and Well-Being Debriefing: Vickie Leff, Matthew Loscalzo, Craig Blinderman

GeriPal

You’d imagine though that our professional expertise and experiences in helping patients and families cope with loss and grief would be helpful in managing our own personal losses. And so we just designed a couple of workshops to train some facilitators. Turns out, it’s maybe not. She was homeless. It just absolutely has to.