ABIM

JUNE 20, 2025

In addition to positions for physicians, these include several openings for patients/caregivers and healthcare team members. Board of Directors (due July 16) Public (non-internist) member ABIM Council Public member: interprofessional healthcare team member (e.g. Read more about how ABIM chooses members of governance.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Outcome Measures: EQ VAS levels and fasting blood glucose for diabetics. Population Studied: Shanghai patients enrolled in the family doctor contract service over the past twelve months. Instrument: PCPCM scores and focus group-derived themes on primary care features. 1.32), confirmed by instrumental variable tests.

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Permanente Medicine

APRIL 16, 2025

The affiliation between NWP and TPMG strengthens the commitment to high-value, quality-driven care for their patients and communities. Through this affiliation, we will bring cutting-edge IT, virtual care capabilities, and more than 100 specialties and subspecialties to benefit the patients and communities of Oregon and southwest Washington.”

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GeriPal

JUNE 8, 2023

Summary Transcript Summary Diabetes is common. When I’m on palliative care consults and attending in our hospice unit we have to counsel patients about deprescribing and de-intensifying diabetes medications. And yet we’re also in a different place in diabetes monitoring and management. Goldilocks zone). This is Eric Widera.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 23, 2025

In our third segment, we explore Amy Linskys study that examined the effect of patient-directed educational materials on clinician deprescribing of potentially low-benefit or high-risk medications, such as proton pump inhibitors, high-dose gabapentin, or risky diabetes medications. Amy, welcome to GeriPal. Amy 00:34 Excited to be here.

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GeriPal

MAY 11, 2023

The beautiful thing about it, it’s more than just having a career development award; it’s a community of aging researchers. One of the highlights really is the networking and the community that it fosters and highlighted, in some ways, by the meeting, which of course you often lead the sing along at. I agree with you.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 23, 2025

As a family physician, my days are filled with caring for individuals and families across the lifespan and in multiple healthcare settings. Furthermore, it chips away at herd immunity, particularly in young children, which increases the risk of illness and community disease transmission.

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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. So it works.

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Mesa Family Physician

MARCH 13, 2025

However, at Mesa Family Physicians , we believe that preventive healthcare is the cornerstone of long-term wellness for our Mesa, Arizona community. These early visits also help children become comfortable with healthcare settings, reducing anxiety about medical care as they grow older.

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Mesa Family Physician

MARCH 6, 2025

Understanding how to prepare for this important appointment ensures you receive maximum benefit from your healthcare provider’s expertise. Dr. James Martínez, family medicine physician at Community Health Partners, explains: “Preventive care represents one of the most powerful tools we have in medicine.

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Edge Family Medicine

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

Healthcare has evolved, and patients now have more choices than ever for medical consultations. When to Choose Telemedicine Routine follow-ups for chronic conditions like hypertension, diabetes, or asthma. Convenient location in Upland, CA , serving nearby communities. But how do you decide which option is best for you?

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Mesa Family Physician

JUNE 11, 2025

Preventive care is often referred to as the first line of defense in healthcare—and for good reason. These exclusive preventive methods are central to modern healthcare because they help detect issues early or prevent them altogether. Some people ask: What is another term for preventive medicine services?

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Vida Family Medicine

MARCH 28, 2024

In reality, GLP-1 receptor agonists have been available for many years for the treatment of type 2 diabetes (Victoza, Trulicity, etc) and for weight loss (Saxenda), while tirzepatide is new in the last few years. I do not prescribe "weight loss" medication for the sole purpose of reducing the number on the scale.

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GeriPal

JUNE 19, 2025

Knowing that the community is really underrepresented in sort of our knowledge, what we do, how we provide care that’s truly inclusive and welcoming. For instance, our indigenous communities, such as some of our indigenous communities use the Term two spirit, to identify their sexual orientation and also sometimes their gender identity.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: Significant structural barriers exist concerning access to healthcare for transgender (TG) individuals. Population Studied: Adult, community-dwelling, non-institutionalized TG (N=6,238). These barriers may prevent TG from receiving the necessary care to address chronic conditions, such as cardiovascular disease (CVD).

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GeriPal

MAY 25, 2023

Sarah Nouri, Hillary Lum, and LJ Van Scoy argue that diverse communities are asking for ACP. Sarah Nouri gives an example from her work in the LGBTQ+ community of a trans woman who was buried as a man because existing laws/rules did not protect her wishes. I would like to request the Friendship Train by Gladys Knight and the Pips.

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Plum Health

OCTOBER 16, 2024

Michigan residents have been buzzing about a primary care clinic that’s setting a new standard for healthcare across the state. Comprehensive Primary Care for Michigan Communities What sets this clinic apart is its comprehensive approach to primary care. Here’s why everyone is talking about it! What Makes This Medical Clinic Different?

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GeriPal

JANUARY 16, 2025

So like as an example, in New York State, if someone has no healthcare proxy that they’ve designated, there is a legal structure by which we can assign a surrogate, whereas other states don’t have that same structure. But they also did not do the DPOA for healthcare form. So there’s no healthcare surrogate.

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Adventures of a Sick Doctor

MARCH 24, 2020

These are the fears of the medical community, and they relate not just to the likelihood that our hospitals and clinics will soon be flooded with people, but that the staff working in those hospitals will be washed away, trampled over or blasted apart by the illness itself.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 26, 2023

I think that, as Ramona will talk about and elucidate a bit further, is just a recognition that in this country we have traditionally, and to my mind continue to do so, cause serious harm to Black people, that you can see that play out within healthcare in ways that are both big and small. Eric: Absolutely. I was going to stop at that point.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Alex and I did a study on over 2000 community dwelling older adults, and we found that over two thirds of people had geriatric conditions, these geriatric syndromes, and palliative care related problems like pain, difficulty climbing stairs. One of my good friends, Jerome Kim, is a community oncologist. Throw it in the trash.”

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 27, 2022

As a springboard for this conversation we discuss new prognostic models developed to predict (simultaneously) mortality, disability, and mobility impairment ( Alex Lee first author, JAGS ) and mortality for people with dementia residing in the community ( James Deardorff first author, JAMA IM ). . Alex, what other decisions? Alex Lee: Sure.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

And I gotta manage their blood pressure and their diabetes meds. We’ve had difficulty in recruiting and engaging in those communities, and that’s on our end. It’s not on the community’s end. So it matters a lot to the person, to their family, to the community. We save healthcare.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

I you use the Lee Schonberg prognostic index for community dwelling older adults you will be directed to the tool, and it will automatically place the life expectancy at the calculated prognostic estimate. . See screenshot below. You can either access it directly here. So yeah, stay tuned. Eric: Great. James: Yes. Alex: Thanks.

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Family Medicine Initiative

APRIL 10, 2024

GPs Are the Backbone of Effective Healthcare Systems Countries with a stronger focus on primary care and family medicine, rather than on hospitals and specialists, enjoy better health, 1 , 2 lower health inequalities, 2 , 3 and prevent hospitalizations. Over time, communication improves. Here are the key results.

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GeriPal

JUNE 13, 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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GeriPal

AUGUST 1, 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. Go on, Anna.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 15, 2024

And actually, just my experience of that actually, I think made me want to be more, to understand more about what was going on in the community and be more part of how we could support older adults in the community, particularly around asian hate, which then I ended up moving to unlock in 2022. Specifically about anti agent hate.

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BMJ

AUGUST 20, 2021

By John Scott Frazer, Glenn Ross Frazer Reference : Frazer JS , Frazer GR, Analysis of primary care prescription trends in England during the COVID-19 pandemic compared against a predictive model, Family Medicine and Community Health 2021; 9: e001143.

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GeriPal

MAY 1, 2025

So it felt like it was being part of this huge kind of change in the whole environment and the whole experience of that community. Or is the aging process and development of serious illness so similar to people who are not living with HIV that we can sort of move on and consider it, you know, sort of like diabetes, for example.

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Maine Academy of Family Physicians

JUNE 21, 2024

This bill proposes to improve the healthcare decision-making and treatment process for prescriptions and testing by reducing the pre-approval (prior authorization) burdens placed on healthcare providers by health insurance carriers. Opposition from a coalition of the tobacco lobby and the recovery community prevailed to kill the bill.

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Pamela Wible MD

JUNE 19, 2025

Read transcript and/or download & listen to MP3 below:  Physician burnout—symptom of a broken system “Burnout” has become one of the most talked-about issues in healthcare—but behind the buzzword lies a deeper crisis. Wible held town hall meetings and she invited citizens in her community to design their own ideal clinic.

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GeriPal

JUNE 2, 2022

But this was a family practice study where they randomized 500 healthcare providers to wear surgical masks in routine interactions, 500 to not wear masks, no difference in like anyone getting colds or anything. They once said every child, not every child but many children got diabetes from COVID. Eric: Yeah.

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Common Sense Family Doctor

JUNE 20, 2025

Diabetes is a big problem. I'm all for preventing diabetes through healthier eating. For decades, five independent scientific advisory panels made evidence-based recommendations on clinical preventive services, community preventive services, newborn screening tests, infection prevention, and immunizations.

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