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Forecasting and adapting to the family medicine workforce shortage

The Health Policy Exchange

In the mid-1990s, the American Medical Association confidently predicted that the penetration of managed care would lead to a large "physician surplus" and convinced Congress to cap the number of graduate medical education (GME) positions subsidized by the Medicare program. Two decades later, there is a widespread consensus that the U.S.

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Personalized Diabetes Treatment Plans: How Connecticut Specialists Approach Care

Physicians Alliance of Connecticut

Have a Diabetes Consultation Your first visit with a diabetes specialist may involve a physical exam. Learn Your Diabetes Treatment Goals The diabetes specialist will set treatment goals for your diabetes, based on what they learned about you during your consultation. Here’s what that looks like, step by step.

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Supporting Healthy Aging With Tailored Obesity Management Strategies

Physician's Weekly

The second piece is getting folks to be successful at restricting their calories, which works well when nutrition education and behavioral counseling strategies are combined—and even better when provided in a group setting. Many older adults may have limited access to training facilities or experience with resistance training.

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Stand by you.

Reflections of a Grady Doctor

But as soon as she saw me, her face erupted into this complicated smile. We talked to him and to each other and to radiologists and consultants. Sometimes my job as a clinician-educator calls for lots of high-level medical knowledge. You came anyway," she said with a chuckle. Then she sighed this breath of relief.

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Updates in ID and Nephrology: Lona Mody, Rasheeda Hall, Devika Nair, Sonali Advani

GeriPal

And they should be forced by doing research, followed by translating research into practice and continued education of a wide variety of individuals to then care for our aging population. There’s the complications associated with immune senescence, comorbidities, atypical clinical presentations. So you’re right.

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New Technologies and 3D Imaging — “The Virtual Microscope”

CDOCS

Three technologies in particular &mdash; magnification/illumination, 2D digital imaging, and 3D CBCT imaging have improved my diagnostic, patient-education and clinical skills to help to keep our practice ahead of the curve. Some other uses for CBCT are when I sense complicated anatomy, resorption, perforations, or instrument failures.</span></p>

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Improving Hospital Care for Older Adults through Acute Care for Elders (ACE Units): Kellie Flood and Stephanie Rogers

GeriPal

After coming out of residency and taking care of lots of complicated older adults as of now, a brand new physician attending, I really needed that team to help me out. Number four, again, structure and process that promotes early mobilization which may or may not require a formal OT and PT consultation. And that model just made sense.

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