Physicians Alliance of Connecticut

OCTOBER 18, 2024

If you are considering healthcare jobs in CT, the Physicians Alliance of Connecticut (PACT) is a leading employer in the state. With over 30 physician partners and more than 100 healthcare providers, PACT is committed to healthcare excellence, innovation, safety and quality. Why choose a career in healthcare?

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

One proposed reason is the lack of knowledge about PGx among clinicians slowing down the potential for clinical implementation, showing the main barrier to implementation is lack of healthcare professionals’ education. family medicine) and the need for education in this area. Recurrent themes were identified.

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Mesa Family Physician

APRIL 15, 2025

Let your provider know about any medications or recent illnesses. For skin tests , your provider will measure wheal size and note if there’s flare or erythema around the site. Whether you’re exploring options through your provider or considering an at-home kit, understanding the process is the first step.

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BMJ

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Value, challenges and practical considerations when designing, conducting and analysing a longitudinal qualitative study in family medicine | Family Medicine and Community Health (bmj.com). It can provide insights into the nature, causes and consequences of change as well as identifying continuity, stability and lack of change.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: Adults with complex needs require health and social services from a variety of providers, which can lead to frequent use of services. Setting: Two health and social services organizations and 5 primary care clinics in Quebec, Canada. Case B: 12 operational committee meetings; 8 clinical support meetings; 14 people trained.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: The ability of healthcare professionals to assist transgender and gender diverse (TGD) people in accessing safe and effective care has been impacted by recent laws and policies imposed in many states, along with other public rights. POPULATION STUDIED: U.S. All p’s < 001.

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Incarceration negatively affects the physical and mental health of people who are incarcerated as well as their family members and loved ones, and limits access to healthcare before, during, and after incarceration. All healthcare professionals will have patients who are directly or indirectly impacted by the carceral system.

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Physicians Alliance of Connecticut

MAY 6, 2025

is now 60 or older, leading to a greater need for healthcare professionals. To meet this need, local initiatives like CT Health Horizons are working to train professionals and improve care in the region. Nurses: Nurses work as part of a team to provide care and support, and educate patients about health conditions.

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My Green Doctor

JULY 2, 2025

Here we suggest steps that healthcare managers and clinicians can take to protect their patents. We hope you will discover resources to share with your family as well! It is time to transform healthcare systems to be climate resilient. Because sustainable healthcare isn’t optional—it’s essential.

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Sound Physicians

OCTOBER 30, 2024

I was born and raised in the Middle East, Saudi Arabia, before immigrating to Toronto with my family. I wanted to get back to where we were, to give back to the program that gave my career a place to start, and to provide stability to my fellow providers. When prospective providers visit Mercy Hospital of Buffalo team.

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Barton Associates

MAY 29, 2025

When you think of healthcare, you likely think of doctors first. One way to increase access to care to patients who need it—especially those who live in rural areas with a higher shortage of healthcare professionals—is for current physicians to take locum tenens positions. Where do physicians commonly work?

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East Cary Family Physicians

OCTOBER 20, 2023

At East Cary Family Physicians, we believe that knowledge is power. In this blog, we’ll explore the importance of Breast Cancer Awareness Month, focusing on early detection, prevention, and the vital role of regular screenings in women’s healthcare. Age: The risk of breast cancer increases with age.

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

APRIL 24, 2025

Dr. Benton mentors clinical and research physicians, fellows, and postdoctoral trainees. Clinically, he cares for youth and families through the Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences and the new Division of Addiction Medicine at Boston Children’s Hospital. References 1. Benton TD , Boyd RC , Njoroge WF.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 11, 2025

Distributing intake throughout the day has been shown to enhance muscle synthesis, and targeting 90 g/day provides 1.2 The second piece is getting folks to be successful at restricting their calories, which works well when nutrition education and behavioral counseling strategies are combined—and even better when provided in a group setting.

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The Motivated MD

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

True we have a fulltime nanny, but we still both work full-time clinically and still wish to have a steady hand in our children’s lives. Because of this, carving out the time for family remains a top priority, and as our family grows, more and more time is needed to make that goal a reality. This has further eaten into my time.

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GeriPal

JULY 19, 2024

Alex 00:20 And she’s professor of family medicine at USC, deputator at JAGS, and co lead of the bold center of Excellence in early detection of dementia. There has to be effective support provided behind any type of screening strategy in order for it to truly be effective. I think she’s the creator of the mini cog.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 4, 2022

Kevin’s study looks at a period of time in the COVID pandemic when a large multistate nursing home provider created a “nonessential medication on hold” (NEMOH) policy in order to conserve critical nursing resources and PPE, and to limit exposure risk for residents by reducing unnecessary contact. Welcome, Liz, to the GeriPal Podcast.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 2, 2022

She directs UCSF MERI’s patient, family, and clinician support with classes and consultation on resiliency, well-being, and grief. Alex: First three words would be, family and history and diversity. Judy Long, MDiv, BCC , palliative care chaplain and educator at UCSF and caregiver. Anne: Is there a movement? I love them.

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GeriPal

JUNE 8, 2023

If in your own work, your clinical work, is this something that you see people struggle with you, you see yourself struggle with? So my background clinically is working with cancer patients and families and those who underwent bone marrow transplant, and a lot of times for their treatment regimen, it includes steroids.

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GeriPal

JULY 27, 2023

Alex: And we have Cathy Alessi, who is a geriatrician, Director of the Geriatrics Research Education and Clinical Care Center at the VA, greater Los Angeles and Professor of Medicine at UCLA. Sleep is a focus of your academic and clinical career. ” That actually happens a lot in the sleep clinic. Cathy: Thank you.

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GeriPal

MAY 5, 2022

Was there any mention about the impact that hearing loss has in communication or what we should do about it in clinical practice? COVID-19, masks, and hearing difficulty: Perspectives of healthcare providers. Association of Sensory and Cognitive Impairment With Healthcare Utilization and Cost in Older Adults. Transcript.

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Mesa Family Physician

MARCH 13, 2025

However, at Mesa Family Physicians , we believe that preventive healthcare is the cornerstone of long-term wellness for our Mesa, Arizona community. Regular visits to your primary care physician at Mesa Family Physicians provide opportunities for early detection of potential health issues before they become serious problems.

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Vida Family Medicine

JUNE 29, 2022

This included additional classes in medical ethics as well as a scholarly project examining the medical ethics of a specific clinical situation. These are intellectually interesting but often personally devastating to the patient and family involved. Medicine involves many extremely ethically challenging situations.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

In day-to-day practice, It’s hard to imagine providing excellent hospice or palliative care services without access to a team social worker. And so when you have that, that’s so good for the family. I can figure out how to provide care in this way. And this was before peds palliative care really had traction.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 25, 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.

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GeriPal

JULY 21, 2022

Often the work of the certified driving rehab specialist is to assess the older drivers goals, assess prognosis for driving, and help the family navigate discussions around driving cessation (hmmm…sounds like an approach to family meetings). Were those people self referring, or family members calling you asking? Eric: Yeah.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 30, 2025

In one corner, weighing in at decades of experience, well known for heavy hits of bedside assessments, strong patient-family relationships, and a knockout punch of interdisciplinary collaboration, we have in-person palliative care consults. Summary Transcript CME Summary It is a battle royale on this weeks GeriPal podcast. But watch out!

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

The patient is sick and getting sicker, and refuses to let you talk with family or other members of her inner circle. We owe it to the patient to explore the reasons behind the “no,” commonly not wanting to be a burden to their family. Should you stop at “no?” Anne Kelly: Hi there. Nice to be here.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

First, a clinician’s thoughts must be encoded into words, then transmitted often via sounds, and finally decoded back to thoughts by a patient or family member. Eric: Well, this is the part that I love about your article, too, is that it’s not just these big, big family meetings where miscommunication happens. Simple, right?

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GeriPal

AUGUST 29, 2024

It feels nearly impossible if you add another degree of difficulty, whether it be a crying interpreter or a grandchild from another state who shows up at the end of a family meeting yelling how you are killing grandma. And for many years, I think there was a focus on physicians and then providers. Holly 01:23 Thank you.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 16, 2025

Summary Transcript CME Summary Many older adults lose decision-making capacity during serious illnesses, and a significant percentage lack family or friends to assist with decisions. But you worry that the advance directive does not provide enough guidance for the specific decision at Yael Jo, do you. They have an advance directive.

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GeriPal

JULY 11, 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.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Our loves, our triumphs, our failures, our work, our families. . So I think as palliative care clinicians, we use narrative as we try to understand more about the persons that we’re caring for and their families. Been in the hospital four times, vented, been told the story to her family, she won’t live.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Based on this surge in evidence, the American Society of Clinical Oncologists recently updated their guidelines for care of older adults to state that all older adults receiving systemic therapy (including chemo, immuno, targeted, hormonal therapy) should receive geriatric assessment guided care. Alex: How is your family doing?

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 24, 2024

And then I met a patient in clinic once who asked me a lot of really intelligent questions about medical cannabis, what it does. I’d been a nurse at the time, and I went back to do my clinicals in an oncology clinic locally. And I decided at that point to hang a shingle and start a clinic with a physician.

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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. Have you had a family history of substance use disorder? AMA PRA Category 1 credit(s) ™.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

The insight started when Carmen, an orthopedic surgeon-researcher, and Katie, a physical therapist- researcher participated in ride-alongs with EMS providers to patient’s homes. And yet, after assisting the older adult to their feet, the EMS providers would leave. laughter] Alex: We love the family theme. Their job was done.

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