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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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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. In the past several years, telehealth has opened tremendous opportunities to improve access to care.

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PC Trials at State of Science: Tom LeBlanc, Kate Courtright, & Corita Grudzen

GeriPal

Kate: Yeah, some of the thoughts I’ve had in thinking about this: we did not require communication, training and education of the clinicians. We started pre-pandemic and very quickly it went to telehealth, so it was primarily telehealth. Eric: Okay. Next, what should we do with this study? Eric: Okay.

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Plenary Abstracts at AAHPM/HPNA: Yael Schenker, Na Ouyang, Marie Bakitas

GeriPal

Marie 16:30 I actually don’t think it matters if you can establish rapport and if you do good telehealth etiquette, which is seeing who else is in the room, addressing everybody that was there, et cetera. When you say telehealth, you mean like video health, like so they could see each other? So absolutely, it is complicated.