The Clinical Problem Solvers

DECEMBER 16, 2020

Nwamaka Eneanya and Jennifer Tsai to discuss the limitations and harms of race-based medicine in clinical practice. Our guests explain how we can incorporate race-conscious medicine in clinical settings, medical education, and biomedical/epidemiological research to responsibly recognize and address the harms of racial inequality.

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PEMBlog

AUGUST 30, 2023

This is a blog post and a podcast episode designed to disseminate the important work of Choosing Wisely , an initiative of the the American Board of Internal Medicine Foundation, the goal of which is the spark conversations between clinicians and patients about what tests, treatments, and procedures are needed – and which ones are not.

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

AUGUST 25, 2020

Policing and health outcomes Evidence has shown that excessive policing not only impacts the individual health of Black and brown people who’ve interacted with the police, but it also impacts the health of their communities at large. Essien, MD, MPH Hosts: Dereck Paul, MS, Utibe R.

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GeriPal

JULY 19, 2024

What hasn’t been shown, Eric, is that if you apply tools like this, clinical outcomes down the road are better for patients. We talk about diagnosis, et cetera, but it’s almost more of a community conversation. So how can we make it more integrated with other activities in the clinic? And then what is next?

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GeriPal

JUNE 20, 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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PEMBlog

OCTOBER 2, 2024

I’ll make the important distinction between gastritis – which is diagnosed only via endoscopy – and dyspepsia, the term best used to describe the symptoms many patients experience. I’ll dive into the latest clinical practice guidelines and discuss evidence-based approaches to diagnosis and treatment.

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

MAY 2, 2022

Dr. Davila is a palliative care physician at Massachusetts General Hospital and her work examines racial and ethnic inequities in patient-clinician communication. On the other hand, those who believed that differences in social conditions explain racial differences in health outcomes were less likely to practice race-based medicine.

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ABIM

JUNE 11, 2025

Expanding ABIM’s engagement with stakeholder communities such as early career physicians, specialty societies and patient-focused organizations. They discussed an interest in its ability to collect data specific to practice areas like HIV and geographic areas—like practice ZIP codes—to better understand workforce needs and patterns.

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ABIM

JUNE 4, 2025

Expanding ABIM’s engagement with stakeholder communities such as early career physicians, specialty societies and patient-focused organizations. Community Practice in ABIM Governance* Erica N. The group discussed evolving trends in telehealth and how to capture that as a category of community practice.

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ABIM

JUNE 24, 2025

Expanding ABIM’s engagement with stakeholder communities such as early career physicians, specialty societies and patient-focused organizations. Most (49.5%) are in single-specialty group practice or multi-specialty group practice (38%). Community Practice in ABIM Governance* Erica N.

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ABIM

MAY 30, 2025

Expanding ABIM’s engagement with stakeholder communities such as early career physicians, specialty societies and patient-focused organizations. Community Practice in ABIM Governance* Erica N. Adey, MD , and Linda Awdishu, PharmD , whose terms on the Specialty Board end June 30, 2025.

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GeriPal

MAY 25, 2023

Summary Transcript Summary Our guests today present an important rejoinder to the argument that we should refocus away from advance care planning (ACP). Sarah Nouri, Hillary Lum, and LJ Van Scoy argue that diverse communities are asking for ACP. I would like to request the Friendship Train by Gladys Knight and the Pips.

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GeriPal

APRIL 13, 2023

Summary Transcript Summary Social connections impact our health in profound ways, whether it is the support we receive from family and friends in navigating serious illness, the joy from shared social activities, or connecting with our community. But, should we as clinicians care about the social lives of our patients?

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

So I’m going to last longer in my position and I’m going to seek opportunities to grow and to help families and patients more and more. We need to figure out how to create this community of palliative care social work scholars. And then I found other folks that were practicing like I did. ” Barbara: Right.

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GeriPal

MARCH 28, 2024

Well, as a kick off to this year’s first in-person State of the Science plenary, held in conjunction with the closing Saturday session of the AAHPM/HPNA Annual Assembly, 3 randomized clinical trials were presented. Eric: And who are the patients including in this trial, again? Kate: These are very sick patients.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

For example, we spend the first half talking about a RCT simulation study of clinician verbal and non-verbal communication with a seriously ill patient with cancer. In one room the physician under study interacts with a white patient-actor, and in another room interacts with a Black patient-actor. Amber: Thank you guys.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Caveat as well that RCTs should not be placed on pedestal as the only answer- often patients enrolled in RCTs do not represent real world patients – observational studies do. For a trial to have value, it should not exclude patients over age 80, or those with dementia, or patients residing in nursing homes.

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GeriPal

JUNE 13, 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

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

That screening influences kind of further treatment, actually, probably more importantly, patient outcomes. And when I asked the patient, well, what happened, the test was sprung on them. Well, even for somebody like you, who’s pretty familiar with the instruments, it might cause distress for the patient, maybe their family.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

Eric 04:44 Could just make you a little bit more resilient, you can increase your Rvus so you can see more patients. It’s really not about helping the patient or physician. And so in that way, it’s not the letterhead or the four walls and the roof that are perpetuating the present, it’s the people.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

We also explored several questions with them, including how to define trauma, its prevalence in older adults, the impact of past traumatic experiences, the potential triggers of trauma screening, and the application of trauma-informed principles in clinical practice. So there’s a lot of different ways to think about it.

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GeriPal

MARCH 10, 2022

Joan: A lot of my work comes out of my clinical practice. I was like, how do you disseminate this knowledge out to these community nursing homes in rural Georgia so that people know about this? Nursing homes are subsidized by their Medicare, by their rehab patients. Lauren: Yeah, that was my question.

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GeriPal

MARCH 27, 2025

Summary Transcript CME Summary A pragmatic trial evaluates the effectiveness of a treatment or intervention in real-world clinical practice. Only 5% of intervention patients received the facilitator-led component of the intervention (there were other components, facilitator-led was the most engaged component). Is that right?

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GeriPal

JUNE 6, 2024

Summary Transcript Summary As Eric notes at the end of today’s podcast, we talk about many difficult issues with our patients. But one issue we’re not as good at discussing with our patients is sexual health. Clearly this issue is important to patients. You know, I address all the supportive care needs of my patients.

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PEMBlog

JANUARY 17, 2024

Camargo, Clinical Trial: Comparative Effectiveness of Cephalexin Plus Trimethoprim-Sulfamethoxazole Versus Cephalexin Alone for Treatment of Uncomplicated Cellulitis: A Randomized Controlled Trial, Clinical Infectious Diseases, Volume 56, Issue 12, 15 June 2013, Pages 1754–1762, [link] Liu C, Bayer A, Cosgrove SE, et al.

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

MAY 2, 2023

Naweed Hayat, a child and adolescent psychiatry fellow at the University of California San Diego, who applies his own lived experience of resettlement to his clinical practice. This discussion is hosted by Sudarshan Krishnamurthy, Ashley Cooper, and LaShyra Nolen.

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