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.

IT 121

IT Patient-Centered Patients Clinic 121

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? COVID-19, masks, and hearing difficulty: Perspectives of healthcare providers. Association of Sensory and Cognitive Impairment With Healthcare Utilization and Cost in Older Adults.

IT 102

IT Screening Hospital Clinic 102

GeriPal

JANUARY 12, 2023

Yes, you need some protected time for leaders to provide training and structure and oversight and ongoing quality assurance, but the heaviest sort of cost lift sometimes is redesigning the physical space. So the system drives the providers to deliver age friendly care. And so there’s not a lot of added cost. Eric: Okay.

Hospital 101

Hospital Patient-Centered IT Nurse Practitioner 101

GeriPal

JUNE 12, 2025

During my training, I didn’t receive much education about radiation oncology, and I’m not entirely sure what some of the terms mean (hypofractionated means fewer sessions, right?). Eric 00:42 So on this podcast, we’re gonna be talking about what every healthcare provider should know about radiation oncology.

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Patient-Centered Referral Patients IT 103

ABIM

JUNE 24, 2025

The group discussed policy shifts and potential implications for graduate medical education and health equity. Dr. McDonald acknowledged that recent executive orders have emphasized more competition in medical and legal education accreditation, but reaffirmed ABIM’s commitment to evidence-based practice and health equity.

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Board-Certified Board-Certified Physicians Government Community 40

ABIM

JUNE 11, 2025

Representatives from the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA) and the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America (SHEA) joined for a portion of the meeting*. The following is a summary of the spring meeting. Visit the ABIM Blog for reports of prior meetings.

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Board-Certified Government Community Education 52

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

In day-to-day practice, It’s hard to imagine providing excellent hospice or palliative care services without access to a team social worker. When you think about leadership and we think about health care, we still live in a healthcare system that has a hierarchy. I can figure out how to provide care in this way.

IT 102

IT Family Families Clinic 102

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 29, 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.

IT 127

IT Patient-Centered Illness Education 127

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

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. Patient education and discussion are critical before initiating therapy. Dowell D, Ragan KR, Jones CM, Baldwin GT, Chou R., RR-3):1–95. DOI: [link].

Patients 52

Patients Patient-Centered ER Individual 52

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 mean, in other work, hard work environments as well.

IT 112

IT Healthcare Healthcare Professional Patient-Centered 112

GeriPal

JANUARY 18, 2024

Alex: We are delighted to welcome back to the GeriPal podcast, Katie Fitzgerald Jones, who’s a nurse scientist at the New England Geriatric Research Education and Clinical Center, and a palliative and addiction nurse practitioner at the VA in Boston. AMA PRA Category 1 credit(s) ™. Who do we have with us today? ” Right?

Illness 137

Illness Patient-Centered Screening Clinic 137

GeriPal

APRIL 4, 2024

In case you miss the introductions at the start of the podcast, Bernie and Laurie are married, and offer wonderful reminiscence of their clinical practice over the last several decades. Eric: And Laurie for this patient, were you the outpatient provider? It’s certainly not common in my practice. Alex: Bernie.

Family 113

Family Families Patient-Centered IT 113

GeriPal

APRIL 13, 2023

The Listening “EAR” approach that simplifies assessment of loneliness and social isolation in clinical settings, and other practical pointers. What it found is that healthcare providers are better at identifying people that are connected more than disconnected. What the heck am I going to do about it?

IT 100

IT Community Patient-Centered Medical 100

GeriPal

MARCH 9, 2023

FDA is considering approval, shifting away from Schedule I restrictions, paving the way for use in clinical practice. We’re going to work with training up the providers that already work in these clinical settings to make it a little bit more, essentially, ask this question of how is this going to work in the real world?

Patient-Centered 91

Patient-Centered Community IT Medical 91

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Substance use disorder is one of those complex issues in which clinical practice is changing rapidly. But, you know, I’ve talked to a lot of palliative care providers, a lot of people caring for people with serious illness. You can listen to our prior podcasts on substance use disorder here , here , here , and here.

Patients 74

Patients Clinic Patient-Centered Illness 74

GeriPal

APRIL 24, 2025

We and our guests have noticed that in our clinical practices, patients and caregivers seem to be asking for such treatments more frequently. It’s just that he was foregoing things that we think would have provided him more benefit. And that was the last time that he’d been seen by our healthcare system.

Patient-Centered 79

Patient-Centered IT Patients Illness 79

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

I mean, I don’t want to speak to your healthcare system and what’s happened, but that to me seems inappropriate. So for primary care providers, you order that blood test, you own that. And a primary care provider has 18 minutes. And how can I expect a primary care provider to do that? Nate 19:49 Yeah.

Primary Care 97

Primary Care Diagnosis Screening IT 97

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Summary Transcript CME Summary Trauma is a universal experience, and our approach as health care providers to trauma should be universal as well. And we often do, as healthcare providers, care for people who are going through traumatic events, through just being sick in the hospital or a home or dying at home.

Patient-Centered 67

Patient-Centered IT Individual Screening 67

GeriPal

MARCH 10, 2022

The Lived Experience of Providing Feeding Assistance to a Family Member with Dementia. Well, I’m a geriatric nurse practitioner and I provided care to over 800 nursing home residents in 11 different nursing homes. I was really struck by the difference in care provided to people with advanced dementia. Rehabbed to Death.

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Nurse Practitioner Hospital Family Families 60

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. I’m just stunned even writing that!

Consulting 116

Consulting Patient-Centered IT Patients 116

GeriPal

MARCH 20, 2025

And is there a middle path to provide some degree of comfort while also hastening the end of life? Yeah, but I mean, in healthcare you need to appreciate the risks, benefits and alternatives of the proposed intervention. And then finally you have the moral distress of the providers. But it’s a risk, right?

IT 89

IT Patient-Centered Patients Medical 89

GeriPal

MARCH 27, 2025

Summary Transcript CME Summary A pragmatic trial evaluates the effectiveness of a treatment or intervention in real-world clinical practice. At a high level to sort of step in and start, you know, tinkering with workflows that, you know, are kind of as healthcare is a giant machine in primary care. Is that right?

Primary Care 80

Primary Care IT Clinic Illness 80

GeriPal

JULY 13, 2023

He really practiced what he preached. And I think that his research was informed by his clinical practice, his clinical practice was informed by his research. And if I remember that study correctly, it was priming both patients and providers in the outpatient setting to do goals of care conversations.

Patient-Centered 84

Patient-Centered IT Hospital Patients 84

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

The Clinical Problem Solvers

MAY 2, 2023

[link] CPSolvers: Antiracism in Medicine Series Episode 21 – Psychosocial and Cultural Considerations for Providing Healthcare to Immigrant and Refugee Populations Show Notes by Kiersten T. This discussion is hosted by Sudarshan Krishnamurthy, Ashley Cooper, and LaShyra Nolen.

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Healthcare Provider Clinical Practice Clinic 52