Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: Cervical cancer burden is high in the Chinese and Latinx communities. Partnerships between Comprehensive Cancer Centers and federally qualified health centers (FQHCs) in these communities is critical to build capacity among primary care providers (PCPs) and staff (e.g.,

Education 130

Education Screening Patient-Centered Primary Care 130

Minnesota Academy of Family Physicians

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

We’ve been hearing from family physicians across Minnesota about the rapid pace of recent federal policy changes and concerns about their impact on patient care and the communities we serve. To help you navigate these changes, we’ve compiled a list of timely resources for family physicians.

Family Physician 52

Family Physician Family Families Patient-Centered 52

Physicians Alliance of Connecticut

MAY 20, 2025

They support patients and clinical staff by handling the essential administrative tasks that keep healthcare facilities running smoothly. As a medical office assistant, some of your day-to-day responsibilities may include: Greeting and checking in patients. Confirming patients’ insurance coverage. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

Medical 52

Medical Healthcare Professional Patient-Centered Healthcare 52

Physicians Alliance of Connecticut

APRIL 12, 2025

For medical assistant positions in CT, typical tasks may include: Interviewing patients about their symptoms and main complaints. Checking patients’ vital signs, such as blood pressure and temperature. Measuring patients’ height and weight. Typical tasks may include: Recording information in patients’ medical records.

Medical 52

Medical Healthcare Patient-Centered Primary Care Physician 52

GeriPal

JANUARY 23, 2025

Today, we explore four fascinating studies highlighting innovative approaches to reducing medication use and improving patient outcomes. Patients received brochures detailing the risks of gabapentinoids, nonpharmacologic alternatives, and a proposed deprescribing regimen (see here for the brochure ). in the usual care group.

Specialization 120

Specialization IT Patient-Centered Medical 120

GeriPal

AUGUST 4, 2022

My take home from this is that while the most preferred explanation for deprescribing statins and sedative-hypnotics is one focused on the risk of side effects, we also need to individualize it to the patient and the medication that they are taking. But how to talk to patients about the risk and benefits when starting. Welcome, Ariel.

Specialization 105

Specialization Medical Patient-Centered Provider 105

GeriPal

OCTOBER 13, 2022

When I’m on service these days there is inevitably a moment when a resident says “Patient so-and-so is on X” – and I have absolutely no idea what X is. In this context, we’re excited to hear from infectious disease experts and nephrologists about updates in the care of older adults. Summary Transcript Summary.

Complication 97

Complication Patient-Centered IT Patients 97

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.

IT 121

IT Patient-Centered Patients Clinic 121

PEMBlog

OCTOBER 2, 2024

I’ll make the important distinction between gastritis – which is diagnosed only via endoscopy – and dyspepsia, the term best used to describe the symptoms many patients experience. Gastroesophageal reflux disease is when the patients have severe symptoms that persist and cause long term issues.

Diagnosis 52

Diagnosis Management IT Patient-Centered 52

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

So, the question becomes, what, if anything, should we do differently in the primary care setting to diagnose the disease? On todays podcast, weve invited Nathaniel Chin back to the GeriPal podcast to talk about what primary care needs to manage this new world of Alzheimers disease effectively. Great to be back.

Primary Care 97

Primary Care Diagnosis Screening IT 97

Common Sense Family Doctor

FEBRUARY 1, 2025

Since the turn of the century, the rise of hospitalists and the corresponding decline in the number of office-based family physicians who provide inpatient care for their own patients has magnified the value of optimizing the handoff from hospital-based teams to primary care physicians.

Hospital 52

Hospital Management Primary Care Primary Care Physician 52

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

The insight started when Carmen, an orthopedic surgeon-researcher, and Katie, a physical therapist- researcher participated in ride-alongs with EMS providers to patient’s homes. Going into patient’s homes was eye opening. So Carmen and Katie developed an EMS Community Partnership program. Word of mouth spread rapidly.

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Community Transportation IT PCP 116

GeriPal

JANUARY 25, 2024

Summary Transcript Summary In a JAMA 2020 systematic review of palliative care for non-cancer serious illness, Kieran Quinn found many positives, as we discussed on our podcast and in our editorial. He also found gaps, including very few studies of patients with lung disease, and little impact of trials on quality of life.

Patient-Centered 123

Patient-Centered IT Illness Patients 123

GeriPal

JUNE 19, 2025

Alex 00:41 And we’re delighted to welcome Noelle Marie Javier, who goes by “she” “her” and is a geriatrician and palliative care doc professor, newly minted – c ongratulations – And a clinician educator at Mount Sinai in New York City. – Rainbows of Aging : Jace Flatt’s research site. Johnson, actually.

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Individual Community IT Chronic Condition 82

GeriPal

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Today we talk with DorAnne Donesky, Michelle Milic, Naomi Saks, & Cara Wallace about the notion that we should revolutionize our education programs, training programs, teams, incentive structures, and practice to be intentionally interprofessional in all phases. The collaboration is actually the center. DorAnne, welcome to GeriPal.

Screening 121

Screening IT Families Family 121

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Does it improve outcomes that patients, caregivers, and clinicians care about? hint: 80% can be done in advance by patients or caregivers) Why is it that some oncologists are resistant to conducting a geriatric assessment, yet have no problem ordering tests that cost thousands of dollars? Welcome back, William. Alex: Yeah.

Patient-Centered 130

Patient-Centered IT Patients Clinic 130

GeriPal

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

So the data relating to the number of geriatricians in this country, salaries in comparison to hospitalists or primary care physicians. We have the new geriatric surgical verification process where they’re, I think now eight or so level one geriatric surgical centers with 40 more somewhere in that process of becoming certified.

Board-Certified 91

Board-Certified IT Community Medical Student 91

GeriPal

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Within hours of recording this podcast, I joined a family meeting of an older patient who had multiple medical problems including cancer, and a slow but inexorable decline in function, weight, and cognition. The patient’s capacity to make decisions was marginal, and his sons were shouldering much of the responsibility.

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Patient-Centered Hospital Patients IT 133

GeriPal

OCTOBER 20, 2022

And, who within ASPE guides aging policy and connects policy to every day health challenges experienced by patients and clinicians? How HHS and ASPE solicit input from clinicians, community leaders, and older adults and how much it impacts policy decisions (spoiler alert: this involvement is CRUCIAL). Rasheeda, welcome to GeriPal.

Complication 52

Complication Patient-Centered IT Patients 52

GeriPal

APRIL 10, 2025

Summary Transcript CME Summary Early in my research career, I was fascinated by the (then) frontier area of palliative care in the emergency department. I asked emergency medicine clinicians what they thought when a patient who is seriously ill and DNR comes to the ED, and some responded, (paraphrasing), what are they doing here?

Patient-Centered 78

Patient-Centered IT Hospital Patients 78

GeriPal

MARCH 28, 2024

And we have Kate Courtright, who’s at University of Pennsylvania, the PAIR Center. They study palliative care. She’s pulmonary critical care and palliative medicine trained. And we have Tom LeBlanc, who’s from Duke, who is also palliative care trained and an oncologist. And that’s it. Kate: Sure.

Consulting 116

Consulting Patient-Centered IT Patients 116

GeriPal

MARCH 6, 2025

Just out of fellowship, Naheed built a palliative care program for homeless persons called the Palliative Education and Care for the Homeless (PEACH) Program. He’s the founder and leader of the Palliative Education and Care for the Homeless program in Toronto, Palliative care physician at St.

Healthcare 102

Healthcare IT Community Illness 102

GeriPal

MARCH 24, 2022

Alex: We are delighted to welcome to the GeriPal podcast, Susan Hickman, who is professor at the Indiana University schools of nursing and medicine, and is director of the IU Center for Aging Research at the Regenstrief Institute. Alex: And we have returning, Bob Arnold, who is a palliative care doctor at the University of Pittsburgh.

Illness 73

Illness IT Healthcare Patient-Centered 73

GeriPal

JUNE 23, 2022

Mara Schonberg is associate professor of medicine at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School. So that would be palatable to the community that I could look at, whether we were over-screening those 80 and older. Do you think most patients know that? Eric: Alex, who do we have with us today? Mara: Yeah.

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Screening PCP PCP IT 100

GeriPal

MARCH 7, 2024

And then second, I was someone who was a Parrot Head for years and years and it was just amazing how the community came together. That was really the theme song of how the community came together. But in the end, I see these as my patients and I’m trying to define what is the right model. How do you see the light?

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Provider Illness IT Healthcare 119

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

If you want a deeper dive, check out the following resources: Our Nature of Suffering podcast with BJ Miller and Naomi Saks Dani Chammas Annals paper on countertransference and why we shouldnt say that the patient was difficult rather than that I felt frustrated. So there’s a lot of different ways to think about it.

IT 67

IT Patient-Centered Individual Screening 67

GeriPal

MARCH 27, 2025

Today we are delighted to welcome Jennifer Wolff, Sydney Dy, and Danny Scerpella, who conducted a pragmatic trial of advance care planning (ACP) in primary care practices; and Jasmine Santoyo-Olsson, who wrote an accompanying commentary in JAMA Internal Medicine. Jennifer, welcome to the GeriPal Podcast. Sydney 00:41 Thank you.

Primary Care 80

Primary Care IT Clinic Illness 80

Maine Academy of Family Physicians

JUNE 21, 2024

Despite broad support from all aspects of health care, the flavored tobacco bill, LD 2416, was passed by the senate but never came up for a vote in the House. Opposition from a coalition of the tobacco lobby and the recovery community prevailed to kill the bill.

Family Physician 40

Family Physician DO Family Medicine Primary Care 40

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

We talk with Bruce Leff and Tacara Soones about the hospital-at-home movement, which has been shown to reduce costs, improve outcomes and improve the patient experience. 2020 Hospital at Home-Plus: A Platform of Facility-Based Care. We had, since the late seventies, a home-based primary care program. Annals of Int Med.

Hospital 115

Hospital Patient-Centered Supply Chain IT 115

GeriPal

JULY 20, 2023

Clinicians could care for patients across state lines, could prescribe opioids without in person visits, could bill at higher rates for telemedicine than previous to the pandemic. Many patients benefited, not only those isolating due to covid, but also patients in rural areas, patients who are homebound, and many others.

Telemedicine 73

Telemedicine Telehealth Patient-Centered Board-Certified 73

Physicians News Digest

APRIL 17, 2025

in 2022, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. 27, the cancer institute had more than 10,800 active projects, the highest share of the NIH’s roughly two dozen institutes and centers, according to the NIH’s website. health care system and academia.

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Vaccination Government Patient-Centered Hospital 52