The Clinical Problem Solvers

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

This year’s episode, our fourth conducted at SGIM, is focused on the importance of qualitative research and the role it plays in antiracism research, community-based work, and scholarship. JAMA Internal Medicine , 183 (10), 1172–1175. Annals of Internal Medicine , 170 (9_Supplement), S33–S35. Zakaria, S.,

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

JUNE 9, 2021

[link] Summary In this special episode of the Antiracism in Medicine Series, originally recorded for the 2021 Society of General Internal Medicine Annual Meeting, the CPSolvers Antiracism team discusses what must be done to make medical education more antiracist. Does the institution involve community members in training?

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Common Sense Family Doctor

DECEMBER 14, 2024

A 2019 AFP editorial provided more guidance for estimating and having conversations about life expectancy with older patients. ** This post first appeared on the AFP Community Blog. times more likely to develop urinary or sexual complications, 2.78

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ABIM

APRIL 24, 2025

Expanding ABIM’s engagement with stakeholder communities such as early career physicians, specialty societies and patient-focused organizations. Dr. McDonald explained that the LKA provides MOC points for questions answered correctly, but since ABIM is not an accreditation organization, it does not offer CME credit.

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Sound Physicians

OCTOBER 30, 2024

Osman Saleem Osman Saleem, MD Medical Director, Mercy Hospital of Buffalo We’re honored to host, and even launch, the careers of so many incredible healthcare professionals who are not only experts in their field but also dedicated to the health and vitality of their community. When prospective providers visit Mercy Hospital of Buffalo team.

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PEMBlog

AUGUST 30, 2023

This is a blog post and a podcast episode designed to disseminate the important work of Choosing Wisely , an initiative of the the American Board of Internal Medicine Foundation, the goal of which is the spark conversations between clinicians and patients about what tests, treatments, and procedures are needed – and which ones are not.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 23, 2025

Alex 00:36 And next we have Connie Fung, who I know well through the Beeson community and is a physician, researcher, professor of medicine at UCLA. We’re starting to adopt them as well for different cultural communities. It was done as a pragmatic trial because we weren’t changing the medicines.

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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.

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Physicians News Digest

MARCH 31, 2025

By The American College of Physicians Rural communities in the United States face a dire health crisis that threatens the population’s well-being, says the American College of Physicians, in a new policy published today in the Annals of Internal Medicine. More needs to be done to help our patients who live in rural communities.

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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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ABIM

JUNE 4, 2025

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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ABIM

MAY 30, 2025

Expanding ABIM’s engagement with stakeholder communities such as early career physicians, specialty societies and patient-focused organizations. ABIM currently publishes internal medicine residency program pass rates for three-year periods. Community Practice in ABIM Governance* Erica N.

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ABIM

JUNE 24, 2025

Expanding ABIM’s engagement with stakeholder communities such as early career physicians, specialty societies and patient-focused organizations. Many hematologists maintain multiple certifications, the most common combination being hematology-medical oncology (9,280) and hematology-hospice and palliative medicine (176).

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ABIM

JUNE 11, 2025

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. ABIM and the Infectious Disease Board gratefully acknowledge the service of Wendy Armstrong, MD , and Jesse Milan, Jr.,

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GeriPal

MARCH 6, 2025

link] PEACH Good Wishes Program A program that provides meaningful gifts for unhoused individuals who are terminally ill. Michael’s Hospital in the Department of Family and Community Medicine. The social determinants of health and what community well being was a big part of. those experiencing homelessness).

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GeriPal

JANUARY 16, 2025

But you worry that the advance directive does not provide enough guidance for the specific decision at Yael Jo, do you. So it defines unrepresented as someone who lacks decisional capacity to provide informed consent to a particular medical treatment. It doesn’t provide enough guidance for the clinicians to make decisions.

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GeriPal

APRIL 28, 2022

He uses comics and other artwork to share his experiences in palliative care and educate others about topics like empathy and communication skills. Times , The BMJ , and Annals of Internal Medicine. . And so here’s a picture of four healthcare providers behind bars. You never want to be punching down. Nathan: Yeah.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 8, 2022

And which of those experiences would you like to share with us that we could then write into a story that we’ll share with providers? It started here at Madison at one and it’s also spread outside the VA now to hospitals in Boston, Providence and now starting up actually in California and UCLA and UCSF.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

We covered some of our questions on the podcast, others you can ponder on your own or in your journal clubs, including: Maries tele/video palliative care intervention was tailored/refined with the help of a community advisory board. Eric 04:27 Yeah, I gotta ask about the community advisor. So I don’t want my Marin community to.

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GeriPal

APRIL 10, 2025

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? This is not why I went into emergency medicine. I went into emergency medicine to act. We weren’t randomizing providers or patients.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Inspired by Dani Chammass paper in Annals of Internal Medicine titled, Wishing for a no show we talk about countertransference: start by asking yourself, Why am I having difficulty? But, you know, I’ve talked to a lot of palliative care providers, a lot of people caring for people with serious illness. We have this.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 15, 2022

And which of those experiences would you like to share with us that we could then write into a story that we’ll share with providers? It started here at Madison at one and it’s also spread outside the VA now to hospitals in Boston, Providence and now starting up actually in California and UCLA and UCSF.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 14, 2023

On this podcast we talk about her paper in JAMA Internal Medicine which studied three hospitals that varied in the intensity of care they provided to seriously ill patients. And so one of the things that I felt as a resident was moral distress around some of the treatments that we provide near the end-of-life.

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GeriPal

MAY 15, 2025

This specific study , published in JAMA Internal Medicine, was conducted in 17 ICUs in North Carolina. Many were community hospitals. At one end of the spectrum you can provide decision makers with information that doesn’t work very well in most contexts. Prior-auth forms? Kate 23:23 Hospital length of stay.

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GeriPal

MAY 22, 2025

We’re looking at community based organizations and we’re just going to keep synthesizing this to try and construct a picture of music in everyday life. MOC points per podcast in the American Board of Internal Medicines (ABIM) Maintenance of Certification (MOC) program. You’re coming back.

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GeriPal

MARCH 3, 2022

And Lauren Ferrante has found in a study published in JAMA Internal Medicine that trajectories of disability in the year prior to ICU admission were highly predictive of disability post-ICU, on the same order of magnitude as mechanical ventilation. It was this slow build, I would say.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Summary Transcript CME Summary Trauma is a universal experience, and our approach as health care providers to trauma should be universal as well. And we often do, as healthcare providers, care for people who are going through traumatic events, through just being sick in the hospital or a home or dying at home. Like, does that indirect?

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GeriPal

MARCH 10, 2022

Archives of Internal Medicine 2010. The Lived Experience of Providing Feeding Assistance to a Family Member with Dementia. One of them is Karen Steinhauser’s Annals of Internal Medicine paper on, In Search of a Good Death. Rehabbed to Death. Ruth: Aw, thanks. Ruth: Sure. Ruth: Mm-hmm (affirmative).

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 3, 2024

You can find her illustrations online at her Twitter account, particularly those about the anti-asian hate study that we did recently and had a podcast about, as well as in annals of internal medicine. And I just want to give a shout out to wendy’s grown ups table community. Lingsheng, welcome back to GeriPal.

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GeriPal

JULY 6, 2023

Alex: We’ve got a lot to talk about…what states are doing and cities are doing to support older adults in the community. It was designed to really balance what Medicaid at the time was to provide nursing homes and Medicare is obviously health insurance. But, what you need is a community-based game there.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 15, 2024

Lingsheng (and I) recently published studies on this in JAMA Internal Medicine , and JAGS. This question, while providing an opportunity to talk about direct and indirect experiences, can be asked of all patients, and opens the door to conversations about anti-semitism, islamophobia, or anti-Black racism.

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GeriPal

APRIL 21, 2022

To the deeper emotions – of loss and grief, of wonder and transcendence – that are at the heart of the complex care we provide. Mike: It was really then it was when I was a internal medicine resident that I heard a Mary Oliver poem, and it really connected to where I was at. AlexSmithMD . Alex: Mm-hmm (affirmative).

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GeriPal

AUGUST 1, 2024

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. AMA PRA Category 1 credit(s) ™. Great to be here.

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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. This is what I do here. Did it matter if you had dementia or if you had.

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GeriPal

JULY 25, 2024

Next, we talk with James Deardorff about whether we can accurately predict nursing home level of care in community-dwelling older adults with dementia. It’ll provide you with like a percentage estimate of probability of nursing home level of care at two, five and ten years, and also the median predicted time to nursing home care.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Don’t get me wrong, the evidence points to cost savings, but as Chris Callahan and Kathleen Unroe pointed out in a JAGS editorial in 2020 “in comprehensive dementia care models, savings may accrue to Medicare, but the expenses accrue to a fluid and unstable network of local service providers, patients, and their families.”

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Ill end this intro with a quote from Deb Grady in an editors commentary to our thought piece in JAMA Internal Medicine about this topic: Voice technology that creates a searchable database of patients every encounter with a health care professional? Using data from wearable devices, internet searches, and purchasing history?

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