Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

The Virginia Mental Health Access Program (VMAP) is a statewide initiative that helps health care providers take better care of children and adolescents with mental health conditions through provider education and increasing access to child psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers, and care navigators. Results: 20.2%

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Annals of Family Medicine

JANUARY 27, 2025

We describe a primary care office-based opioid treatment program and addiction consultation service model designed to support small, rural clinics to increase their capacity for MOUD. The intervention consists of a standardized curriculum, addiction medicine consultants, practice facilitation, and financial incentives.

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Pamela Wible MD

MAY 21, 2025

Tax-deductible & includes CME Design Your Coaching Practice Physician Retreat Sept 2–6, 2025 ~ 1:1 personal retreat Curious how to launch a coaching or consulting business as a physician—without an MBA, coaching certification, or a medical license? Earn 30 hours of Category 2 CME (continuing medical education) credit.

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Private Practice Consulting Medical Student Engineering 180

Myriad Genetics

MAY 1, 2025

That’s how often Chelsea Mulheron finds herself asking women in her clinic about their family history of cancer. To educate and inform patients about what their family history might tell them about their risk of cancer. “I Enhancing Hereditary Cancer Screening at NMC Every day, every patient.

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Patients Screening Patient-Centered Families 52

Vida Family Medicine

JUNE 26, 2025

At Vida Family Medicine, I’ve helped hundreds of patients improve their blood sugar without extreme dieting or cutting out the foods they love. Schedule a visit with Vida Family Medicine to get personalized, compassionate care that puts you at the center of the plan. You can call the office or schedule a consultation here.

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Management Diabetes Family Medicine DO 52

The Clinical Problem Solvers

JULY 18, 2021

He completed his undergraduate education at the University of Texas at Dallas and his medical training at the University of North Texas Health Science Center – Texas College of Osteopathic Medicine. His current career interests include clinical reasoning, medical education, and cardiology.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 11, 2025

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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The Clinical Problem Solvers

APRIL 24, 2025

Simon is a pediatric addiction medicine psychiatrist at Boston Children’s Hospital; an assistant professor in psychiatry at Harvard Medical School; a recent Commonwealth Fund fellow in health policy at Harvard University; and the medical director of Wayside Youth & Family Support Network. 

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Vida Family Medicine

JUNE 28, 2024

If there are specific conditions you are worried about based on your family history or Googling or social media, write these down too. They do not hold an educational credential that qualifies them to diagnose and treat you. If you have already been diagnosed with any medical conditions, write down all of the diagnoses you have.

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PEMBlog

MAY 20, 2025

Learning Objectives Demonstrate the ability to use shared decision-making strategies when discussing imaging options with families of pediatric patients presenting to the Emergency Department. Focusing a lot on when to image, when not to image, and how to communicate imaging decisions effectively with families.

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Families Family Hospital Patient-Centered 101

FDA Law Blog

AUGUST 23, 2021

PhRMA has updated its guidance regarding speaker programs through the following additions to the Code: The purpose of a speaker program should be to present substantive educational information to address a bona fide educational need, and only those with a bona fide educational need for the information should be invited (i.e.,

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StorytellERdoc

JULY 2, 2014

I asked him about his family. And yet, he was without a supportive family. My thoughts immediately went to my sister, Susie, who has had a long and fulfilling career as a Special Education Teacher. Following this, he was caught stealing from a grocery store. Michael," I continued, "why are you staying at a City Mission?

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 2, 2022

He wrote a book titled “ Psychiatric consultation in long term care ” that has a strengths based approach to staging dementia (how cool is that). Judy Long, MDiv, BCC , palliative care chaplain and educator at UCSF and caregiver. Alex: First three words would be, family and history and diversity. Anne: Is there a movement?

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Community IT Individual Patient-Centered 101

GeriPal

APRIL 27, 2023

Attendee 3: PCHETA, the Palliative Care Hospice and Education Training Act, of course. Attendee 9: Early integration of palliative care in medical education. So I worry about burnout for our teams, but I’m hopeful that we can continue to grow and educate each other. Eric: What is PCHETA? Attendee 4: Oh, gosh.

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GeriPal

JUNE 8, 2023

When I’m on palliative care consults and attending in our hospice unit we have to counsel patients about deprescribing and de-intensifying diabetes medications. What is the role of the family caregiver system, how they play a role? We don’t need to check sugars all the time,” that also is a shock for patients and families.

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Diabetes Management Patient-Centered Families 73

Aspiring Minority Doctor

JUNE 1, 2022

I love my Plastic Surgery residency family! One part of me loves being able to relax at home, shower, and sleep in my own bed during my call shifts, but the other part of me did not like all the gas I used having to drive back and forth between the two hospitals I was covering for consults, or the fact that home call means no post call days.

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Hospital IT Medical Student ER 52

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Addiction medicine consult services have emerged to help address the shortage in access to SUD treatment. This intervention used a primary care addiction consultation service model including education, an addiction medicine consultant, and practice facilitation to increase capacity for opioid use disorder (OUD) treatment.

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GeriPal

MAY 5, 2022

So, it’s a critical component if you really want to have conversations about goals of care, you want to have conversations about the types of treatments that the person wishes to have, or doesn’t wish to have, and to really engage the person and the family in these conversation. Anecdote away. Alex: Yeah.

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IT Screening Hospital Clinic 102

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Clinicians report a lack of education and confidence in screening for and treating alcohol use disorder (AUD). Intervention: TTA engages with primary care practices using a multi-pronged approach, including online modules, live continuing medical education, and multi-layered data collection.

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Primary Care Education IT Consulting 130

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

This week, we talk about the other major palliative care trial of default palliative care consults for hospitalized older adults with COPD, kidney disease, or dementia, published in the same issue of JAMA. and consulting for Papa Health. And, of course, this is what families of patients undergoing palliative care go through.

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Consulting Hospital Patient-Centered IT 120

Physician's Weekly

JUNE 19, 2025

On a gloomy Friday in January, Johnson, a nurse practitioner who treats older adults, had a hospice consult with Ellen, a patient in her 90s in declining health. She enjoyed talking with the half dozen other residents at her adult family home in Washington state. ” A month after the consult, Ellen died peacefully in her sleep.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Today we talk with DorAnne Donesky, Michelle Milic, Naomi Saks, & Cara Wallace about the notion that we should revolutionize our education programs, training programs, teams, incentive structures, and practice to be intentionally interprofessional in all phases. For instance, a family meeting or an update or communication with families.

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Screening IT Families Family 119

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

The patient is sick and getting sicker, and refuses to let you talk with family or other members of her inner circle. We owe it to the patient to explore the reasons behind the “no,” commonly not wanting to be a burden to their family. And the sort of the ask was, “Oh yeah, you can talk to the family, right?

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Families Family Patient-Centered IT 97

GeriPal

AUGUST 29, 2024

It feels nearly impossible if you add another degree of difficulty, whether it be a crying interpreter or a grandchild from another state who shows up at the end of a family meeting yelling how you are killing grandma. We’ve done work with medical improvised, we’ve done work in museum based education. Alex 19:04 Yep.

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IT Illness Families Family 132

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.

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Patient-Centered IT Illness Patients 122

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.

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Community Transportation IT PCP 114

GeriPal

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Within hours of recording this podcast, I joined a family meeting of an older patient who had multiple medical problems including cancer, and a slow but inexorable decline in function, weight, and cognition. Tamra: I wrote this… Eric: Thinking that the perceived role for inpatient physical therapist is a discharge consultant.

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Patient-Centered Hospital Patients IT 132

GeriPal

APRIL 4, 2024

Bernie Lo discloses being an Honorarium Recipient and consultant for Takeda starting on 01/23/2024. If they didn’t do it all by themselves, they talked to the family and it was a conversation, but also there wasn’t a whole lot that doctors can do then. AMA PRA Category 1 credit(s) ™. ICU care was pretty rudimentary.

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Families Family Patient-Centered IT 112

GeriPal

OCTOBER 12, 2023

” Somehow, there’s this signal that the patients and families had to pick up that maybe the surgeon wasn’t so enthusiastic, or if I just dump risk on them, maybe they’ll say, “I don’t want this.” And that’s how we connected. Justin: That’s probably the million dollar question.

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IT Families Family Patient-Centered 128

GeriPal

JANUARY 16, 2025

Summary Transcript CME Summary Many older adults lose decision-making capacity during serious illnesses, and a significant percentage lack family or friends to assist with decisions. And there are no default pathways of family or friends to rely on and no known people who could potentially represent this person from within their inner circle.

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GeriPal

JUNE 19, 2025

Alex 00:41 And we’re delighted to welcome Noelle Marie Javier, who goes by “she” “her” and is a geriatrician and palliative care doc professor, newly minted – c ongratulations – And a clinician educator at Mount Sinai in New York City. If we think of discrimination, how people are treated by their biological family.

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Individual Community IT Chronic Condition 81

GeriPal

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Our loves, our triumphs, our failures, our work, our families. . Unpacking characteristics of spirituality through the lens of persons of colour living with serious illness: The need for nurse-based education to increase understanding of the spiritual dimension in healthcare. It’s since spread to over 70 VAs. Heather: Sure.

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GeriPal

JUNE 5, 2025

Kathleen 03:47 I think any of us who’ve spent any time in nursing homes have spent time working in a nursing home setting, have visited, had family members in nursing homes and looked around and seen the population there. So we see a lot of problems with symptom management, a lot of family conflict. That’s a big question.

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GeriPal

MARCH 28, 2024

It did not change the frequency of palliative care consultation, the timing of such, ICU mortality, or six-month mortality. Kate: I think the main one for me being asked on the fly is that one of the nudged specialist palliative care consultation, which we know has limitations. Eric: So how do you put that all together? Eric: Okay.

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Consulting Patient-Centered IT Patients 115

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

You did a rural tele-palliative care consultation study. And so the video consult was what became the mode. Marie 03:42 So probably the most important thing is we developed the consultation as a culturally based consultation process. And then we incorporated that information into the consultation process.

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Consulting Community Patient-Centered Families 63

GeriPal

DECEMBER 15, 2022

So I think as palliative care clinicians, we use narrative as we try to understand more about the persons that we’re caring for and their families. Been in the hospital four times, vented, been told the story to her family, she won’t live. So those questions we ask when we’re doing a palliative care consult.

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IT Patient-Centered Healthcare Illness 105

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. Here’s another clinician saying, “I ignored a patient’s tears and gave a speech about cardiac physiology during a family meeting.” That’s scare tactics.

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