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.

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Illness IT Diagnosis Patient-Centered 129

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. And that’s how the names have really changed.

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IT Healthcare Healthcare Professional Patient-Centered 111

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.

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IT Patient-Centered Illness Education 126

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?

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IT Community Patient-Centered Medical 99

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. Kate and Ashwin talked about their research on the prevalence of lifetime trauma and its association with physical and psychosocial health among adults at the end of life. Eric 04:19 Yeah.

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IT Patient-Centered Individual Patients 67

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.

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Patient-Centered Patients IT Illness 98

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. They look at the signs and symptoms, they do a physical exam, maybe some lab tests or some imaging. I love this song.

Patient-Centered 111

Patient-Centered Patients IT Healthcare 111

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. An increasing number of federal leaders have a track record of endorsing such products.

Patient-Centered 77

Patient-Centered IT Patients Illness 77

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

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? I do think there is something different about Alzheimer’s than there is about high cholesterol. And even a prostate cancer. You should be scared.

Primary Care 96

Primary Care Diagnosis Screening IT 96

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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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 133

Illness Patient-Centered Patients IT 133

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.

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Consulting Patient-Centered IT Patients 115

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Not my normal clinical practice. Keri: It does remind me, Dani, of that scapegoating phenomenon, when you’re talking about projection, where you see anger getting projected onto another person or a team, saying, “Oh, it’s the physical therapist’s fault or the oncologist is culpable.” Dani: Totally.

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Patients IT Family Families 109

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.

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Illness IT Physicals Patients 130

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 a lot of it was the facilitators calling out with the approval of the provider to the patients ahead of time to see, like, you have a visit coming up. This is what I do here.

Primary Care 79

Primary Care IT Clinic Patient-Centered 79