PEMBlog

OCTOBER 2, 2024

I’ll dive into the latest clinical practice guidelines and discuss evidence-based approaches to diagnosis and treatment. Understanding dyspepsia and its clinical presentation. Join me as I scope out the nuances of gastroesophageal reflux and gastritis and provide practical insights for clinicians in the emergency setting.

Diagnosis 52

Diagnosis Management IT Patient-Centered 52

GeriPal

JUNE 12, 2025

Eric 00:42 So on this podcast, we’re gonna be talking about what every healthcare provider should know about radiation oncology. I didn’t really know, similar to what Evie was talking about, how to provide any anticipatory guidance or to know what to expect in residency. Evie, welcome to GeriPal. Evie 00:41 Thank you.

Patient-Centered 103

Patient-Centered Referral Patients IT 103

GeriPal

JUNE 27, 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.

Illness 130

Illness IT Diagnosis Patient-Centered 130

GeriPal

MARCH 9, 2023

FDA is considering approval, shifting away from Schedule I restrictions, paving the way for use in clinical practice. Alex: It’s complicated. We, for very complicated reasons, ended up with niacin. Legalization is moving forward in several states , following the lead of Oregon and Colorado. Eric: Yeah.

Patient-Centered 91

Patient-Centered Community IT Medical 91

GeriPal

AUGUST 24, 2023

Had multiple physical, psychological complications as a result of that. And the role of the palliative care provider is to figure out, knowing that different things affect different people, is what causes somebody in that particular instance to feel their dignity is being undermined. Eric: Sorry, I was on mute.

Patient-Centered 98

Patient-Centered Patients IT Illness 98

GeriPal

MAY 25, 2023

Complicated grief? Knowledge push the we’re actually testing the Conversation Project toolkit in our second arm, and that toolkit is great because it does provide knowledge and background and stories. We provide a $300 stipend for like food and marketing or whatever we provide all the materials needed for the event.

Community 96

Community IT Patient-Centered Primary Care 96

GeriPal

JUNE 13, 2024

I feel like I recognize it when I see it, but I struggle to give a clear definition or provide effective ways to address it. How should I define cachexia and anorexia when I’m talking to fellow students or thinking about it in my own clinical practice? I think the very simple, practical thing is involuntary weight loss.

Illness 134

Illness Patient-Centered Patients IT 134

GeriPal

MARCH 28, 2024

Kate: The problem is we communicate late, we share prognosis late, we elicit goals and values late, so all the time while they’re in the ICU getting prolonged intensive care, we don’t really know that we’re providing goal concordant care, so we wanted to nudge it a little upstream. Eric: Nudge it. Kate: Nudge it.

Consulting 116

Consulting Patient-Centered Patients IT 116

GeriPal

OCTOBER 19, 2023

It’s like how liberating it is to eliminate resentments, regrets and envy from our lives and how great it is in our clinical practice when we’re able to help families reconcile after an estrangement, how much relief that brings. Eric: That’s a complicated form then. You write who the surrogate is.

Patient-Centered 127

Patient-Centered IT Patients Illness 127

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Not my normal clinical practice. I recently had this patient in clinic who, for complicated reasons that I won’t go into, our outpatient clinic had to put limits on his frequency of visits with me. I recently had an angry patient and I had the opposite enactment. I started bending over backwards.

Patients 110

Patients IT Families Family 110

GeriPal

MARCH 27, 2025

Summary Transcript CME Summary A pragmatic trial evaluates the effectiveness of a treatment or intervention in real-world clinical practice. But the process of implementing this project across two big health systems in our area was very complicated and had its share of both challenges and rewards. This is what I do here.

Primary Care 80

Primary Care IT Clinic Illness 80

GeriPal

JUNE 6, 2024

And that really is what prompted me to get certified as a sexual education provider. I actually went to planned parenthood of Rhode island, and as a practicing oncologist, sat with folks, some of who had just graduated high school, others who were nurse practitioners, and they started from the very, very basics of pelvic anatomy.

Illness 131

Illness IT Physicals Patients 131