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Project ECHO Rheumatology - Rationale and Results from a Multi-Method Study to Capture Impact [Musculoskeletal and rheumatology]

Annals of Family Medicine

Context Project ECHO (Extension for Community Healthcare Outcomes) is a virtually-delivered health professions education model, designed to improve patient care by enhancing primary care capacity in specialty topics. Clinicians from rural and Northern Ontario particularly benefited as access to specialists in their areas was sparse to none.

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Referral Patterns and Gaps in HLA-B27

Physician's Weekly

A retrospective analysis study published in June 2025 issue of Journal of Rheumatology, researchers examined how HLA-B27 testing has been utilized in routine clinical practice for diagnosing spondylarthritis ( SpA ).

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Episode 148: Antiracism in Medicine Series Episode 4 – Dismantling Race-Based Medicine Part 2: Clinical Perspectives

The Clinical Problem Solvers

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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Screening for Dementia: A Podcast with Anna Chodos, Joseph Gaugler and Soo Borson

GeriPal

And so certainly from a family’s perspective, a family caregiver perspective, the last thing we want to have when it comes to good dementia care is a diagnose and audio scenario, or in this case, some type of screening result, and then we’ll see you again in six months. It can’t be diagnosed and adios.

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Dysphagia Revisited: A Podcast with Raele Donetha Robison and Nicole Rogus-Pulia

GeriPal

Some of our healthcare systems are hard, and challenging, and I think that it’s time that we have a change. I think there’s maybe a little bit of debate as to when those turn from being just normal age related changes to then being something more, but it happens in many different areas of healthcare. Eric: Lovely.

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Social Workers as Leaders on Palliative Care Teams: A Podcast with Barbara Jones

GeriPal

When you think about leadership and we think about health care, we still live in a healthcare system that has a hierarchy. And so there are different levels of power within our healthcare system. And then my mom was diagnosed with lung cancer and she was treated there. And sometimes social workers feel intimidated by it, too.

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Dignity at the End of Life: A Podcast with Harvey Chochinov

GeriPal

And it’s a bit of a hokey title, but what I try and impress on readers there is that, the reflection that patients see of themselves, at least metaphorically in the eye of the healthcare provider, needs to be one that is affirming of patient dignity. We examine, we diagnose, we fix. Eric: So how do you do that?