Alabama Academy of Family Physicians

AUGUST 28, 2024

The 2024 Fall Forum is designed to bring together family physicians, general practitioners, nurse practitioners, and physician assistants from across the state. The event focuses on the latest clinical practices, innovations in healthcare, and topics trending in the field of family medicine.

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A Country Doctor Writes

MAY 18, 2025

The organization now employs a single psychiatric nurse practitioner for medication management. It begins here; with the way we see our patients as the center of the clinical work we do, indeed the justification for our own existence as doctors in our communities. (I Six years later, about 10 years ago, none of them remained.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Objective This study fills a knowledge gap by asking: What is the adherence, acceptability, and feasibility of poverty screening administered by providers to patients of an NB primary care clinic? Joseph’s Primary Care Clinic in Saint John, NB, Canada in 2023. Joseph’s Primary Care Clinic in Saint John, NB, Canada in 2023.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 13, 2025

Many clinics are already overburdened, and as diabetes rates continue to climb, the situation will only become more strained. However, these tools require careful integration into clinical work- flows to ensure that they alleviate rather than add to the pressure on clinicians.

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Mesa Family Physician

MARCH 13, 2025

Our board-certified physicians and nurse practitioners develop individualized prevention plans that address your specific health needs and concerns. Our Mesa clinic offers same-week appointments for preventive services, making it convenient for busy families to prioritize their health.

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Physicians Alliance of Connecticut

MAY 6, 2025

Nurse practitioners and physician assistants: These advanced practice providers have advanced education and training, allowing them to perform tasks traditionally done by physicians. Nurses: Nurses work as part of a team to provide care and support, and educate patients about health conditions.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Objective: To assess provider perceptions of the clinical effectiveness of telemedicine video visits, immediately post-encounter, compared to in-person visits. Setting: Providers across six Northern California clinic sites surveyed over an 8-week period (March 21-May 16, 2023). Outcome Measures: Self-reported Likert-scale responses.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context Administrative activities, including work related to caring for individual patients and clinic administration, may play a substantial role in understanding changes to primary care workload. Within primary care most administrative work requires both information management and clinical judgment.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Population studied: Participants included 10 primary care providers (5 physicians, 2 social workers, 1 nurse practitioner, 2 residents), 9 patients and 1 caregiver. 8 virtual care visits were observed.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: For over 25 years, the burden of clinical administrative services has been cited as contributing to the stress and burnout experienced by family physicians. At the system level, participants underscored the need for compensation for administrative time and funding to increase clinic staff (e.g.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Population Studied : Nurse Practitioners, Registered Nurses and Licensed Practical Nurses (Registered Practical Nurses in Ontario) working in primary care Intervention/Instrument: N/A. Results : A total of 76 nurses were interviewed. Outcome Measures N/A.

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Physicians Alliance of Connecticut

JUNE 2, 2025

Some options at this experience level throughout PACT include jobs like: Clinical medical assistant: Clinical medical assistants are responsible for tasks like interviewing patients, checking patients’ vital signs, and collecting blood samples. Completion of a medical assisting program is required.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Clinician types included family medicine (FM), internal medicine (IM), pediatric medicine (PED), general practice (GP), obstetrics/gynecology (OB), nurse practitioner (NP), and physician assistant (PA). Patients were attributed to the PCPs with whom they had the most visits in 2018.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Setting or Dataset: The study was conducted at a family medicine clinic in Kasson, MN with approximately 11,600 empaneled patients, 36 physicians (including 27 physicians in training), 2 nurse practitioners, and 26 nurses.

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Barton Associates

MAY 8, 2025

Temporary medical staff, such as locum tenens physicians , nurse practitioners (NPs) , physician assistants (PAs) , and dentists travel across the country to work short- and long-term assignments at healthcare facilities that are short-staffed. Enter temporary medical staff, such as locum tenens providers.

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Plum Health

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

Understanding Its Role in Healthcare Urgent care clinics are designed to handle non-life-threatening situations that still require timely medical attention. They’re like a hybrid between a primary care clinic and the ER—open late, available on weekends, and usually accepting walk-ins. What is Urgent Care?

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 19, 2025

On a gloomy Friday in January, Johnson, a nurse practitioner who treats older adults, had a hospice consult with Ellen, a patient in her 90s in declining health. ” Nurse practitioners are having those conversations more and more as their patient base trends older. nurse practitioners can practice independently.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 12, 2023

Not every hospital or every health system is the same physically or financial incentives or which clinical programs exist and patient demographics. And even though ACE students have been shown to have great clinical outcomes like decreased hospital harms, yes, health system leaders care about that. Kellie: Yeah, totally agree.

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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? Meg is a researcher and professor of Gerontological Nursing and a Geriatric Nurse Practitioner in the School of Nursing at UCSF. I’m guessing not. Transcript. This is Eric Widera.

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GeriPal

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

My wife, who’s a PhD nurse practitioner, who actually was a founding dean of the nursing school at GW, and I were thinking about, well, we’re not sure we want to work for somebody else all the time. Led the American Geriatric Society. Now, wait, you’re mostly doing coaching now? Is that right? It’s funny.

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GeriPal

JUNE 8, 2023

Today we are delighted to welcome from the East Coast, we have Nadine Carter, who’s a nurse practitioner who spent seven years in outpatient endocrinology and is now a hospice and palliative care fellow at Dartmouth Health and instructor at Dartmouth. Alex Smith: That’s a compelling clinical argument… Tamryn: It is.

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Mesa Family Physician

MARCH 13, 2025

During your comprehensive check-up at our Mesa clinic, our board-certified physicians will not only assess your current health status but also help you understand your risk factors for various conditions based on your family history, lifestyle, and previous medical records. We don’t believe in one-size-fits-all medicine.

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Pamela Wible MD

MAY 22, 2025

60 min) | $97/mo Register here Business Mastermind (5 pm PT) Master advanced business strategies for your independent clinic, coaching, or consulting business (no medical license required). We discuss the hidden and taboo reasons physicians die by suicide—and how to prevent it. (60 Must be a Fast Track grad or own an independent practice. (60

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GeriPal

JANUARY 30, 2025

Find out on this weeks podcast where we invite Joseph Greer, Simone Rinaldi, and Vicki Jackson to talk about their recent JAMA article on Telehealth vs In-Person Early Palliative Care for Patients With Advanced Lung Cancer – A Multisite Randomized Clinical Trial. Joe, welcome to the GeriPal Podcast. Simone, welcome to GeriPal.

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GeriPal

APRIL 14, 2022

Our experts include Katie Fitzgerald Jones (palliative nurse practitioner and doctoral student at Boston College), Zachary Sager (palliative care physician at the Boston VA and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute), and Janet Ho (physician at UCSF in addiction medicine and palliative care). They don’t have an addiction clinic.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Alex 00:30 And we are also delighted to welcome Eloise Theisen, who’s a palliative care nurse practitioner at Stanford and CEO and co- c ounder of Radical Health Clinician Network, which helps patients use cannabis to treat chronic and age related illness. And I returned to school to become a nurse practitioner.

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Vida Family Medicine

JANUARY 4, 2022

Many traditional clinics have a high turnover of doctors, nurse practitioners, and physician assistants, so it is difficult to see the same doctor more than once. For many patients without health insurance, or even those with insurance, this can be a challenge.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 25, 2024

David: Similarly informed by my clinical experience, really, actually, beginning in residency when I took care of a lot of sick folks in the hospital, particularly those with cancer and heart and lung diseases like these. And not just statistically significant, but clinically meaningful. Eric: How about you, David? Eric: Yeah.

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ABIM

JUNE 24, 2025

The questionnaire gathers information about clinical work and practice patterns, and ABIM uses the information to help update exam blueprints, develop policies for initial certification and MOC, and ensure adequately diverse representation of the profession in research.

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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. Katie, welcome back to GeriPal. Bragging rights. No, you can’t- Eric: Why not?

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FDA Law Blog

MARCH 17, 2022

Proposed 2022 CDC Clinical Practice Guideline for Prescribing Opioids, 87 Fed. et al, CDC Clinical Practice Guideline for Prescribing Opioids-United States, 2022, CDC. CDC Clinical Practice Guideline, 10. (We blogged on the final 2016 guideline here on March 17, 2016). 7,838 (Feb. 10, 2022); Dowell, Deborah, MD.,

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 10, 2024

And they begin on today’s podcast with one clinical ask: everyone should be a generalist and a specialist. They are looking to build on both their research and clinical programs and are interviewing candidates for the Associate Chief of Research and for full-time physician faculty to join them in the inpatient and outpatient setting.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Substance use disorder is one of those complex issues in which clinical practice is changing rapidly. Sach Kale set up an outpatient clinic focused on substance use disorder for patients with cancer. Do you need to be an addiction medicine trained physician to start such a clinic (no: Sach is not). What do they do?

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Maine Academy of Family Physicians

OCTOBER 22, 2023

I also spent one day at the Maine Family Planning clinic in Augusta, shadowing the head clinician, Lindsey Piper, NP. I feel very fortunate to have had the opportunity to shadow the head nurse practitioner at the Augusta clinic. Der Simonian wears, she also functions as the Medical Director at Maine Family Planning.

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GeriPal

JUNE 5, 2025

Connie 13:10 So generally what, what I see, very rural, is a nurse practitioner that’s out of our local home health and hospice agency that is palliative care certified. Do they need a palliative care doctor, nurse practitioner? A lot of times the nurse practitioners indicated that the staff were very task focused.

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FDA Law Blog

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

CDC Clinical Practice Guideline for Prescribing Opioids for Pain — United States, 2022. Expected clinical benefits should be weighed against risks before beginning therapy. Duration should be individualized based on the specific patient’s clinical circumstances. Dowell D, Ragan KR, Jones CM, Baldwin GT, Chou R., RR-3):1–95.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Alex: Today we are delighted to welcome Heather Coats, who’s a palliative care nurse practitioner and scientist and Director of Research at the Hospice and Palliative Nurses Association, or HPNA, an Assistant Professor at the University of Colorado and Schutz College of Nursing. This is Eric Widera.

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