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Dress code in Kerala medical colleges: when freedom is an illusion

Tiny Physician

Health facilities and the health-seeking behavior of the community are far superior as compared to national standards. Certain units of departments like general surgery and internal medicine force the boys to wear full sleeve shirts and shoes. Maintaining a trimmed beard is difficult than having a clean shave face.

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Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism Board Meeting Summary | Spring 2025

ABIM

Expanding ABIM’s engagement with stakeholder communities such as early career physicians, specialty societies and patient-focused organizations. Community Practice in ABIM Governance* Erica N. The group discussed evolving trends in telehealth and how to capture that as a category of community practice.

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Stories We Tell Each Other to Heal: Ricky Leiter, Alexis Drutchas, & Emily Silverman

GeriPal

But at the end of the day, I actually view medicine more as an applied science. So we take that science and we apply it to something that’s very messy and chaotic, like a human being or a community or a population. I’ve been running a medical storytelling program called the Nocturnus. Emily 06:27 Yes.

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Storycatching: Podcast with Heather Coats and Thor Ringler

GeriPal

So those questions we ask when we’re doing a palliative care consult. So we have community volunteers who often they have a background in writing or background in healthcare, certainly an interest in interviewing and an interest in writing. ” So lo and behold, that’s how I met Thor. I may have talked about it before.

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Is it time for geriatricians to get on board with lecanemab? Jason Karlawish and Ken Covinsky

GeriPal

So those questions we ask when we’re doing a palliative care consult. So we have community volunteers who often they have a background in writing or background in healthcare, certainly an interest in interviewing and an interest in writing. ” So lo and behold, that’s how I met Thor. I may have talked about it before.

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Optimizing Nutrition in Aging: A Podcast with Anna Pleet, Elizabeth Eckstrom, and Emily Johnston

GeriPal

Anna Pleet is an internal medicine resident at Allegheny Health Network who has a collection of amazing YouTube videos on aging and the Mediterranean diet. Elizabeth Eckstrom is a geriatrician, professor of medicine at OHSU, and author of a new book, the Gift of Aging. Who do we have with us on this podcast? Great to be here.

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Books on Becoming A Better Mentor (and Better Person): Bob Arnold

GeriPal

One of the things I’m now involved in teaching medical students and the bottom line is that everybody who’s in medical school is smart enough to graduate medical school. They may not graduate because of the internal capacity issue. Eric: Yeah. It sounds like Pittsburgh has the same approach.

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