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Multi-year Evaluation of Family Medicine Residency Programs for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Milestones [Education and training]

Annals of Family Medicine

Context: As the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) began to ask programs to report their efforts surrounding diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI), program directors felt ill prepared to evaluate their programs and measure change. Subgroup comparisons will be presented at the meeting.

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A deeper dive into GPA – Jack Penner

The Clinical Problem Solvers

In this post we’ll dive deeper into our illness script for Granulomatosis with Polyangiitis (GPA). Let’s review the case: A 70-year-old man with COPD presented with subacute pleuritic chest pain and dyspnea. A CXR showed a left upper lobe consolidation, and he was treated with antibiotics for presumed community-acquired pneumonia.

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How Mental Health & SUD Bias Impact ED Physical Care

Physician's Weekly

Patients with documented mental illness or substance use disorders (SUDs) continue to encounter a mixed—sometimes starkly divergent—quality of emergency department (ED) care when they present with chest pain, abdominal pain, or other non‑psychiatric complaints, according to a patient‑interview study published in Health Services Research.

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How Locum Tenens Fits Into Modern Healthcare Staffing Solutions

Barton Associates

Doing so builds your reputation in the community as a trusted source of excellent care, but relying solely on permanent staff can present challenges in maintaining this standard. As a healthcare facility, your primary focus is on consistently providing the highest-quality services possible to your patients.

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Reasoning during the COVID-19 pandemic

The Clinical Problem Solvers

An essential part of the diagnostic process involves creating a problem representation (PR) and then trying to match that PR to a specific illness script. But, this requires an adequate understanding of the syndrome and having well-defined illness scripts. Part of the problem is that we are still figuring out this illness.

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Episode 209: Antiracism in Medicine Series – Episode 12 – Our Land is Our Health: Addressing Anti-Indigenous Racism in Medicine

The Clinical Problem Solvers

Episode Learning Objectives: After listening to this episode learners will be able to… Understand the historical and present-day role of settler colonialism behind health disparities in Indigenous populations. Learn tangible ways to center the Indigenous communities in advocacy efforts at the interpersonal and institutional level.

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The Mycoplasma Comeback: Why This Atypical Pneumonia is Back – A PEMCurrents Podcast

PEMBlog

In this episode we dive into the resurgence of Mycoplasma pneumoniae an atypical bacterial cause of community-acquired pneumonia thats making waves in pediatric emergency medicine. Well cover its clinical presentation, epidemiology, diagnostic approach, and management, including why standard beta-lactam antibiotics wont work.