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Maryland's Primary Care Program: incremental progress or breakthrough?

The Health Policy Exchange

Our residency, formerly a collaboration with Providence Hospital, is now known as the Medstar Health/Georgetown-Washington Hospital Center Family Medicine Residency Program. What hasn't changed is that our family medicine residents remain excited about health policy and advocacy. I stepped down as director of the Robert L.

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The Vantage Point II

CDOCS

<p style="text-align: center;">The Seminar is over but the recorded session is available here:</p> <p style="text-align: center;">[cerecvideo:5286|The Vantage Point II]</p> <p style="text-align: center;">& </p> <p style="text-align: center;">[image:600x560.jpg]</p>

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The sense and nonsense of CT screening for lung cancer

The Health Policy Exchange

Also, since the USPSTF is permitted to consider only clinical effectiveness, not cost effectiveness, it could potentially put taxpayers on the hook for cost-prohibitive screenings. Health Policy Fellowship Department of Family Medicine Georgetown University School of Medicine Kenny Lin, MD, MPH Director, Robert L. Phillips, Jr.

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

GeriPal

Exploring the Psychological Aspects of Palliative Care: Lessons Learned from an Interdisciplinary Seminar of Experts. 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. J Palliat Med. doi:10.1089/jpm.2021.0240

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