Remove Community Remove Diagnose Remove Illness Remove Medical Student
article thumbnail

Doctors for America Calls for Transparency in COVID-19 Vaccine Regulation

Doctors for America

As physicians, we know that access to these evidence-based tools to prevent severe illness, disability, and death, are essential to the care of our patients and our shared goal to improve the health of all Americans. DFA teaches physicians and medical students advocacy skills and does advocacy at a state and federal level.

article thumbnail

Social Workers as Leaders on Palliative Care Teams: A Podcast with Barbara Jones

GeriPal

Social workers augment a team’s ability to provide whole-person care, often aiding to identify and meaningfully address the wide variety of challenges and unmet needs faced by individuals and families facing serious illness. We need to figure out how to create this community of palliative care social work scholars. It’s good.

IT 102
Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

What can we learn from simulations? Amber Barnato

GeriPal

For example, we spend the first half talking about a RCT simulation study of clinician verbal and non-verbal communication with a seriously ill patient with cancer. And if the doctors still come up with different diagnoses or perceptions of what’s happening with the patient and or treatment plans, that’s all on them.

article thumbnail

Images of the Dying: A Podcast with Wendy MacNaughton, Lingsheng Li, and Frank Ostaseski

GeriPal

What is it about the images of the dying that helps teach medical students? They had triple diagnoses, often life threatening illness, but also mental illness and usually some kind of addiction. And I just want to give a shout out to wendy’s grown ups table community. I wonder why you did that.

IT 123