GeriPal

JUNE 12, 2025

During my training, I didn’t receive much education about radiation oncology, and I’m not entirely sure what some of the terms mean (hypofractionated means fewer sessions, right?). Anish 07:54 I would say sort of echoing what Emily was just referring to is education is key. So I think education is key.

Patient-Centered 102

Patient-Centered Referral Patients IT 102

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 15, 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.

Community 114

Community Transportation IT PCP 114

GeriPal

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Summary Transcript CME Summary Cannabis is complicated. Eloise 10:29 Yeah, I think what we saw in California was, prior to legalization, there was curiosity, but also a lot of their healthcare professionals didn’t know enough about it, so they didn’t discuss it with them. Is that your feeling, too? David 12:34 Yeah.

Medical 98

Medical IT Patient-Centered Healthcare 98

GeriPal

JANUARY 25, 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.

Patient-Centered 122

Patient-Centered IT Illness Patients 122

GeriPal

JULY 21, 2022

If they’re in a major car crash, they’re going to have more long-term complications probably than a 20-year-old would. But I think then the other factor in this that makes it complicated is the decision for someone in Manhattan might be very different than the decision for someone in, like, rural Wyoming. Is this our role?

IT 102

IT Family Families Diagnosis 102

GeriPal

JULY 11, 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.

Patient-Centered 109

Patient-Centered IT Patients Clinic 109

GeriPal

JUNE 27, 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.

Illness 129

Illness IT Diagnosis Patient-Centered 129

GeriPal

AUGUST 29, 2024

We must often deliver complex medical information that carries heavy emotional weight in pressured settings to individuals with varying cultural backgrounds, values, and beliefs. And one of the hardest things is to distill it down to a sentence or two about what is information, what does it mean? This is a complicated case.

IT 132

IT Illness Families Family 132

GeriPal

OCTOBER 26, 2023

It’s very challenging from a hospitalist standpoint because I think there’s definitely a population of people who are not educated well about what are the outcomes when people go to subacute rehab, who benefits from that. We provide critical education. Sarguni: I hear what you’re saying and I struggle.

Patient-Centered 132

Patient-Centered Hospital Patients IT 132

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

And several times now, I read the notes and it’s just that someone has copied the contact information for someone into that note, but no one has actually contacted them or confirmed that they would want that person present. Emily: Looks like informed decision making around family involvement. Eric: Yeah, I love that too.

Family 97

Family Families Patient-Centered IT 97

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

So I would say that a lot of the education we received were on cutting edge research and the latest drugs in clinical trials, the latest cellular therapies that are coming out. We have the chemo talks tool posted, so people can go there and click and immediately get the information about this. What do they do with this information?

Patient-Centered 129

Patient-Centered IT Patients Clinic 129

GeriPal

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

And so I let him educate me. As much information and control I can give, I’m going to give because I think that this coping is helping them stay rooted. And if the information comes back, then I can make a decision about which way I want to go. This is so complicated. To get even more complicated. You had me.

Illness 125

Illness IT Patient-Centered Patients 125

GeriPal

MAY 22, 2025

We start each podcast with a song in part to shift the frame, taking people out of their academic selves and into a more informal conversation. Relationships are usually more complicated. It is the CME activity providers responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABIM MOC credit.

IT 96

IT Patient-Centered Patients Board-Certified 96

GeriPal

MARCH 9, 2023

Alex: It’s complicated. We, for very complicated reasons, ended up with niacin. Brian: I mean, bottom line in clinical research or psychedelic medicines, we don’t have a lot of information on safety anyway, and we definitely don’t have it in older adults. So, creating a- Alex: Control condition. Eric: Yeah.

Patient-Centered 91

Patient-Centered Community IT Medical 91

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 8, 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 137

IT Families Family Physicals 137

GeriPal

APRIL 10, 2025

But we felt like we want to give like the primary thing about clinical decision support is to give the provider information they don’t already have. Do they have documents in the record like medical orders for life sustaining treatment or a healthcare proxy? The emergency physician knows it’s not new information.

Patient-Centered 77

Patient-Centered IT Hospital Patients 77

GeriPal

OCTOBER 12, 2023

And, what if your surgeon openly discussed the expected ‘bad stuff’ of post-operative recovery, instead of rotely reciting a list of possible complications? I think the two spaces it comes out of, one is informed consent, which is this idea that people need to have an understanding of their disease and treatment. Gretchen: Absolutely.

IT 128

IT Families Family Patient-Centered 128

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. We discuss the principles of harm reduction, social determinants of health, and trauma informed care. The Palliative Education and Care for the Homeless program?

Healthcare 100

Healthcare IT Community Illness 100

GeriPal

MAY 26, 2022

Emily: I would say too that nothing in our framework is inconsistent with and I think we would actually very strongly encourage, but we’re told we didn’t have a word count to elaborate upon the point that there’s still an important role for outreach and education of individuals, right?

Vaccination 87

Vaccination Individual IT Healthcare 87

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

To me, that feels hard because I guess my inclination is that I want communication to be fixable, and there’s so much medical information and there’s a lot of reasons for families to feel like they’re struggling to understand. Abby: I’m going to use Alex’s words from before, that’s really complicated.

Family 144

Family Families Patient-Centered IT 144

GeriPal

MARCH 24, 2022

Although, certainly when you start facing complications of serious illness, it is increasingly important to engage as individuals and conversations about goals, values, and preferences. So it’s an example of something that can start outside of the healthcare system and move its way in. Rebecca: I think I’ll also add too.

Illness 72

Illness IT Healthcare Patient-Centered 72

GeriPal

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

Or is it just this lingering practice of starting dialysis early before really severe complications develop? One is they’re defining the intervention using future information, which Maria always tells me is a big no, no. Alex 06:10 Or having watched that John Oliver episode about DaVita, we will have a link.

Management 116

Management Patient-Centered Patients IT 116

GeriPal

AUGUST 11, 2022

We didn’t really have any available information about changing from one opioid to the other, about… Medicines were used in a very unsophisticated way because we just didn’t know any stuff. Brian: I guess I’m thinking about hearing all this as a more recent product of medical education here. Susan: Great.

Illness 109

Illness IT Families Family 109

GeriPal

MAY 15, 2025

At one end of the spectrum you can provide decision makers with information that doesn’t work very well in most contexts. We didn’t make them do anything with that information, just document it. And especially that requires a lot of education. Eric 38:32 I just want to know what do we do with this information?

Patient-Centered 116

Patient-Centered Hospital IT Illness 116

GeriPal

JANUARY 11, 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.

Illness 144

Illness IT Medical Provider 144

GeriPal

MARCH 28, 2024

We all, when bombarded with information have to take certain elements of a decision and focus on those; and in the ICU, you can imagine, we’re bombarded with information a lot. Kate: Yeah, some of the thoughts I’ve had in thinking about this: we did not require communication, training and education of the clinicians.

Consulting 115

Consulting Patient-Centered IT Patients 115

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

And then we incorporated that information into the consultation process. Later on, of course, we added health professionals to, you know, give us more information. We gave these tools to oncology and fusion room N that was complicated. You just email them or email them information on prepare for your care.

Consulting 63

Consulting Community Patient-Centered Family 63

GeriPal

JUNE 13, 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.

Illness 133

Illness Patient-Centered Patients IT 133

GeriPal

MAY 29, 2025

Andrew complicates this definition , stating it raises more questions than answers. And then I think the flip side of that is we don’t deal with it as clinicians and help them understand how to interpret that information. And like, she retained that information for so long, but she does not really Speak.

Family 93

Family Families IT Patient-Centered 93

GeriPal

JULY 28, 2022

So their practices were really collaborative and informed. And so when we’ve tried to scale and implement the early palliative care model to other institutions, that’s the area where we’ve had to do a lot of teaching, mentoring, and education with palliative care clinicians, because for many of them, it is a brand new skill.

Illness 110

Illness Hospital Patient-Centered Patients 110

GeriPal

MARCH 7, 2024

And then, I did a lot of introspection and realized that I’ve actually been doing this for folks in an informal way, family church members and friends, but I didn’t do it so well with my own mother. ” I spent 32 years in information technology, would you believe, and switched over to this full time a few years ago.

Provider 117

Provider Illness IT Healthcare 117

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

Alex 15:13 This is really complicated. And it’s not the same, but it does provide information. And in fact, after a complicated ethics issue, we will oftentimes go in and try and debrief them. So I think that was a factor also that they thought, like, this is fixable. This shouldn’t have happened.

Patients 98

Patients IT Patient-Centered Hospital 98

GeriPal

JULY 25, 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.

Family 106

Family Families Patient-Centered Patients 106

GeriPal

MARCH 27, 2025

But the process of implementing this project across two big health systems in our area was very complicated and had its share of both challenges and rewards. It was information about our ACP facilitator. There’s also education that goes with it, educating, like, what does that mean? This is a pragmatic trial.

Primary Care 79

Primary Care IT Clinic Patient-Centered 79

GeriPal

JUNE 6, 2024

And that really is what prompted me to get certified as a sexual education provider. So cancer.net has information on this. I mean, there are many professional societies that all have patient facing resources now with a lot of information around, I would say, sexual health and chronic illness. Sharon 15:21 Right.

Illness 130

Illness IT Physicals Patients 130

GeriPal

AUGUST 22, 2024

Something which draws on some idea of what a human being is, which many of our citizens will disagree with, holding a different philosophical or religiously informed review about that. It is the CME activity provider’s responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABIM MOC credit.

IT 113

IT Families Family Patient-Centered 113

GeriPal

JULY 16, 2024

Louise 08:10 Well, I think obviously, you don’t want to break the law and you don’t want to violate professional ethics. If you are concerned that your silence can be a form of complicity and bad behavior, too, we have a certain amount of expertise. With that said, we don’t have a lot of information.

Diagnosis 141

Diagnosis IT Diagnose Physicals 141