ABIM

JUNE 12, 2025

Upgrades to the ABIM website and Physician Portal for 2025, designed to make it easier for both physicians and the public to find information. Expanding ABIM’s engagement with stakeholder communities such as early career physicians, specialty societies and patient-focused organizations.

Board-Certified 52

Board-Certified Internal Medicine Government Community 52

PEMBlog

AUGUST 30, 2023

While no validated clinical prediction rule is available yet to determine which children should receive a CXR, we do know that the presence of bacterial pneumonia is uncommon in otherwise healthy, immunized children with usual presentations of asthma, bronchiolitis and croup. The rational clinical examination systematic review.

Asthma 52

Asthma Electronics Utilities Clinical Practice 52

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Objective: How does the Radical Welcome Engagement Restoration Model designed to guide collaboration between institutions of power and people from stigmatized communities inform the practice of relationship-centered care? Radical Welcome Observation Tool (RWOT) was used a-priori to establish codebook.

Relationship 130

Relationship Clinical Practice Clinic Patient-Centered 130

GeriPal

JULY 19, 2024

Alex 00:20 And she’s professor of family medicine at USC, deputator at JAGS, and co lead of the bold center of Excellence in early detection of dementia. Well, because they’re hard on people with dementia and they can be very hard on families, and they’re a form of crisis. Is that right, Soo? Soo 00:32 Thanks.

Screening 120

Screening Primary Care Patient-Centered IT 120

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Objectives: To encourage communication about social justice issues including reproductive health and abortion in the family medicine residency setting and to foster an environment of inclusive and open discussion about social justice in medicine. Population Studied: Mayo Clinic family medicine residents.

DO 130

DO Family Medicine Family Families 130

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? And when you think about that, they’re hearing pieces of the information and their brain is trying to make sense of it. It’s because they literally couldn’t access the information.

IT 102

IT Screening Hospital Clinic 102

Common Sense Family Doctor

MAY 30, 2025

The US Preventive Services Task Force , the American Academy of Family Physicians , and the American College of Chest Physicians recommend annual low-dose computed tomography (CT) screening for adults 50 to 80 years of age who have at least a 20 pack-year smoking history and currently smoke or have smoked within the past 15 years.

Primary Care 59

Primary Care Screening Family Physician Family Medicine 59

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Regression accounted for clustering within practices, repeated measures over time, and differing intervention start dates. Dataset: Patients within general practices in England who are included in the Clinical Practice Research Datalink (CPRD) with linkage to PINCER implementation dates.

General Practice 130

General Practice Primary Care Clinical Practice Patients 130

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Thats my main take-home point after learning from our three guests today when talking about trauma-informed care, an approach that highlights key principles including safety, trustworthiness, peer support, collaboration, empowerment, and cultural sensitivity. Eric 00:15 And we have three guests to help us talk about trauma informed care.

Patient-Centered 67

Patient-Centered IT Individual Screening 67

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Introduction International Medical Graduates (IMG) are an essential part of the international physician workforce, and exploring the predictors of success and failure for IMGs could help inform international and national physician labour workforce selection and planning.

Medical 130

Medical Clinical Practice Patients Clinic 130

GeriPal

OCTOBER 10, 2024

For instance, a family meeting or an update or communication with families. I’ve worked in palliative care for years, and there’s some times where I’m in the family meeting, I’m facilitating the family meeting, and then I’m reporting out to the referring doctors, and I say, what happened?

Screening 121

Screening IT Families Family 121

GeriPal

APRIL 4, 2024

The Cruzan ruling led to a flood of interest in Advance Directives, and eventually to the Patient Self Determination Act, which mandates provision of information about advanced directives to all hospitalized patients. Other states set lower bars, including oral assignment of surrogate decision-makers. ICU care was pretty rudimentary.

Families 113

Families Family Patient-Centered IT 113

GeriPal

JANUARY 18, 2024

It is the CME activity provider’s responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABIM MOC credit. But the cancer specific databases just don’t have this information. Have you had a family history of substance use disorder? Most of our population has trauma. Katie: Yeah.

Illness 137

Illness Patient-Centered Screening Clinic 137

GeriPal

MARCH 9, 2023

FDA is considering approval, shifting away from Schedule I restrictions, paving the way for use in clinical practice. One of the headlines there was about a family medicine doc, not to pick on family medicine, a doc, who was prescribing mail order psychedelics at really high volumes around the country.

Patient-Centered 91

Patient-Centered Community IT Medical 91

GeriPal

JUNE 27, 2024

It is the CME activity provider’s responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABIM MOC credit. The question I would ask is, how helpful is that in our clinical practice? ABIM MOC credit will be offered to subscribers in November, 2024. In a study, they’re very helpful.

Illness 130

Illness IT Diagnosis Patient-Centered 130

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

It is the CME activity provider’s responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABIM MOC credit. Eric: I do not want my family to listen to my podcasts. So, I generally don’t listen to the podcast afterwards, nor force them on my family. They ordered mild to hot.

IT 127

IT Patient-Centered Illness Education 127

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

So when we encounter anger clinically, when we’re in an encounter with a patient and their family, what are perhaps three steps, and we have the three step model for how we can look within ourselves and respond. What feelings do we have toward the patient and toward their families? Not my normal clinical practice.

Patients 110

Patients IT Families Family 110

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

But we can’t lose sight of the system level, the x individual outside of the individual, the system level factors that inform our day to day workplace experience. We want that family to visit their loved one as they’re dying, but we have no control. I hear more and more places have chief wellness officers.

IT 112

IT Healthcare Healthcare Professional Patient-Centered 112

GeriPal

MAY 25, 2023

And, you know, I really leaned in from my perspective as a primary care geriatrician to hearing from what my patients and their family caregivers are asking me for and asking me about, and they’re asking me about how they can prepare. And that family was not necessarily a trusted network. Hillary or Sarah. Thoughts on that.

Community 96

Community IT Patient-Centered Primary Care 96

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. Daneila Lamas wrote about this issue in the New York Times this week -after we recorded – in her story, a family requested an herbal infusion for their dying mother via feeding tube.

Patient-Centered 79

Patient-Centered IT Patients Illness 79

GeriPal

MARCH 28, 2024

We all, when bombarded with information have to take certain elements of a decision and focus on those; and in the ICU, you can imagine, we’re bombarded with information a lot. I treat patients with acute leukemias and related diseases, so I kind of know some of this from my own clinical practice.

Consulting 116

Consulting Patient-Centered Patients IT 116

GeriPal

JUNE 13, 2024

It is the CME activity provider’s responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABIM MOC credit. And the truth is we don’t want, I don’t want any patient or family to perceive that when Brera goes to see me, there’s a second interest, a second gain.

Illness 134

Illness Patient-Centered Patients IT 134

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Alex: We are delighted to welcome Amber Barnato, who’s a palliative care physician and health service researcher, and she’s director of the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice. Welcome to the GeriPal Podcast, Amber. Amber: Thank you guys. I’m a huge fan. Alex: That’s good to hear.

Patient-Centered 112

Patient-Centered Patients IT Healthcare 112

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. So I do think it’s useful to have that additional information. Karl: Okay.

Patient-Centered 127

Patient-Centered IT Patients Illness 127

GeriPal

MARCH 10, 2022

The Lived Experience of Providing Feeding Assistance to a Family Member with Dementia. Whereas the home with the low rate of feeding tube use involved families in decision making. Whereas the high-intensity nursing homes tended not to have a process or did not include families. There was a hesitancy to engage black families.

Nurse Practitioner 60

Nurse Practitioner Hospital Families Family 60

GeriPal

AUGUST 24, 2023

Harvey is probably best known for his work in developing dignity therapy, a psychological intervention designed specifically to address many of the psychological, existential, and spiritual challenges that patients and their families face as death approaches. But once I got into medicine, I found myself attracted to the field of psychiatry.

Patient-Centered 98

Patient-Centered Patients IT Illness 98

GeriPal

MARCH 20, 2025

Alex 00:48 And we’re delighted to welcome back Josh Briscoe, who’s a palliative care doc at the Durham VA Medical center in Duke and blogs at Notes from a Family Meeting. And it was very clear, and she could now no longer recognize her family members. Who do you give informed consent to? Thaddeus 00:46 Thank you.

IT 89

IT Patient-Centered Patients Medical 89

BMJ

JUNE 25, 2021

Findings from a longitudinal study using primary care records, Family Medicine and Community Health 2021; 9: e000780. 1 Clinical guidelines internationally recommend statin therapy for both primary and secondary prevention of CVD, making statins one of the most frequently prescribed drugs in industrialised countries. 16 Figure 1.

Primary Care 40

Primary Care Clinical Practice Electronics Clinic 40

GeriPal

MARCH 27, 2025

Summary Transcript CME Summary A pragmatic trial evaluates the effectiveness of a treatment or intervention in real-world clinical practice. And so this is our way of supporting non English speaking families in advanced care planning. I’m hearing family and caregivers. It was a letter from the clinic introducing it.

Primary Care 80

Primary Care IT Clinic Illness 80

GeriPal

JULY 13, 2023

” And I saw Randy run family meetings before I knew he was famous, before I knew he was this legendary researcher. 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. I think it is.

Patient-Centered 84

Patient-Centered IT Patients Hospital 84

GeriPal

JUNE 6, 2024

And so clearly it matters how you bring up the topic, who brings up the topic, and probably the timing when this comes up for patients and families, just like we think about conversations about illness and prognostic understanding, I wish there was a good prevalent state data on how big this is of a problem in serious illness at large.

Illness 131

Illness IT Physicals Patients 131

Common Sense Family Doctor

MARCH 23, 2025

The agency's budget was zeroed out by the House of Representatives and narrowly restored by the Senate in 1995 after a 21 percent cut and a name change to emphasize that its mission would be to produce evidence to inform policy, rather than attempt to actively shape policy. Ironically, the need for AHRQ's work has never been greater.

Healthcare 52

Healthcare Patient-Centered Primary Care Illness 52

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. A lot of compounding trauma occurs at the border that has potential downstream mental health implications for individuals and their families.

Healthcare 52

Healthcare Provider Clinical Practice Clinic 52