Maine Academy of Family Physicians

OCTOBER 22, 2023

6-week Medical Student Externship - Medical Student Externship Report – Molly Mann, MS2 2023 July – August "My externship experience consisted of shadowing Dr. Der Simonian at the Falmouth Family Medicine office and at the Maine Medical Center Mother Baby Unit. and hear about their programs.

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GeriPal

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Jerry: Probably for the reason a lot of people go into geriatrics, close relationship with grandparents, volunteered to work in a nursing home as a high school student, just felt really good about being around old people and not having a problem with it. The medical school has no geriatricians.” Why did you go into it?

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Tell me how your illness has impacted your relationships with others, your healthcare team, your family, friends, your beliefs, your values, your preferences. And which of those experiences would you like to share with us that we could then write into a story that we’ll share with providers? Tell me about your illness.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

And I think also some of the stuff we’ll be talking about, when it comes to communication, I mean, a lot of the clinical encounter is listening to the music. Tell me about the clinical enc… How do you think the uncanny valley fits into medicine and communication training and skills? What is the uncanny valley? Eric: Yeah.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Tell me how your illness has impacted your relationships with others, your healthcare team, your family, friends, your beliefs, your values, your preferences. And which of those experiences would you like to share with us that we could then write into a story that we’ll share with providers? Tell me about your illness.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

I must admit, though, sometimes it just feels off… inauthentic, as if it’s not a genuine desire to improve our lives as health care providers, but rather a metric to check off or a desire to improve productivity and billing by making the plight of workers a little less miserable. I backed into that role. That’s true.

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GeriPal

MARCH 13, 2025

Eric 01:44 And we’re going to be talking about the roots of palliative care, and I think importantly, not just looking back, but what does that mean for our future as hospice and palliative care providers. You’re a disgruntled medical student. You’re thinking about dropping out of medical school.

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GeriPal

APRIL 6, 2023

To provide context, we are joined by Karen Steinhauser, a social scientist at Duke who has been studying spirituality for years (and published one of the most cited papers in palliative care on factors considered important at the end of life , as well as one of my favorite qualitative papers to give to research trainees ).

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 3, 2024

How the act of drawing can help us sloooow down, pay attention to the people and world around us, and ultimately let go… The possibility of incorporating drawings in research and even clinical care. What is it about the images of the dying that helps teach medical students? Much more about relationships has been my experience.

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GeriPal

MARCH 30, 2023

This week we’ve invited three guests to share their stories about storytelling that’s written for healthcare providers. For example, and not to criticize medical students, but sometimes you get an M1 or M2 writing about burnout in physicians, and sometimes I’m like, okay, that’s a harder piece to write about.

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GeriPal

JULY 7, 2022

Well, Haider has an intimate relationship with pain, having experienced chronic pain himself and now having dove deep into the latest research on pain for his new book The Song of Our Scars: The Untold Story of Pain. . Something that I’d very little experience of having been a medical student in Pakistan.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 1, 2024

Widera and Smith have no relationships to disclose. Guests Anna Pleet, Elizabeth Eckstrom, and Emily Johnston have no relationships to disclose. When I was a medical student, I actually worked with Elizabeth in her research group at OHSU. Eric 18:14 Elizabeth, how do you bring it up in your clinic? Alex 18:25 Yep.

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