Physicians Alliance of Connecticut

MAY 20, 2025

Knowledge of medical terminology: Understanding common abbreviations, diagnoses, and procedures helps you do your job effectively. Education and Certification Requirements The typical path to becoming a medical office assistant involves getting your high school diploma (or GED) and then completing a certificate/diploma program.

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The Medical Futurist

JUNE 21, 2025

Although this revolution has been brewing for years, the past few months marked a major change , as algorithms finally moved out of the specialized labs and into our daily lives. The future of medicine is undoubtedly inextricably linked to the development of artificial intelligence (AI). This is far beyond what any AI is capable of today.

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

DECEMBER 16, 2020

Our guests explain how we can incorporate race-conscious medicine in clinical settings, medical education, and biomedical/epidemiological research to responsibly recognize and address the harms of racial inequality. education, income, number of previous hospitalizations) that also lead to clinical outcomes, not only race-based stratification.

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GeriPal

MAY 11, 2023

It’s just another example of, I think, that there’s a little extra special sauce there in the Beeson program. Certainly education, quality of education is extremely important. Some of them, like education, definitely social determinants of health. That’s really falling apart. So, that’s one thing.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 19, 2025

Ellen had been diagnosed with vascular dementia, peripheral vascular disease, and Type 2 diabetes. The number of nurse practitioners specializing in geriatrics has more than tripled since 2010, increasing the availability of care to the current population of seniors, a recent study in JAMA Network Open found.

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GeriPal

MAY 9, 2024

all of whom focus their efforts on educating the general public about living and dying with a serious illness. So we are going to leapfrog over the healthcare system education and we’re going to go straight to the citizens of the world and we’re going to give them the insider tips to how to improve their illness experience.”

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

And when I think about some of the … There was actually a meta-analysis looking at specialized palliative care studies, only half of the 10 randomized control studies had a social worker as part of that team. It’s used a lot in the education world. And then my mom was diagnosed with lung cancer and she was treated there.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 17, 2024

Because I think we have someone special, a guest host. And so, unfortunately, I think for a while, this condition, for many people, isn’t diagnosed until you end up seeing a cardiologist or a heart failure doctor who’s really honed in on this to say, actually, this is a heart failure syndrome. This is Eric Widera.

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GeriPal

JULY 28, 2022

Alex: And we are also delighted to welcome Areej El-Jawahri, who is an oncologist at Massachusetts General Hospital as well, who specializes in blood cancers. So I really opted to specialize in lung cancer because I thought that was the appropriate population to build a supportive and palliative care research agenda. Jennifer: Thanks.

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GeriPal

APRIL 14, 2022

We got some really special guests with us. And I remember being there and there was a patient who had seen inpatient and then subsequently outpatient who was so thankful in the weirdest in just this irrational way for having been diagnosed with liver cancer. Management of chronic pain in the elderly: focus on transdermal buprenorphine.

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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.

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GeriPal

APRIL 4, 2024

She was resuscitated by EMS, but did not regain higher brain function, and was eventually diagnosed as being in a persistent vegetative state. Arguing for the state of Missouri against the Cruzan’s was Ken Starr, who would later be assigned the role of special prosecutor in the investigation of the Clintons (Whitewater, Lewensky, etc).

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GeriPal

MARCH 24, 2023

It’s going to be published as a special report in JPM I hope in May with as of today, 279, I think HPM physician colleagues, signatures including 21 of the living past presidents of the academy. How do we make this work for patients and families? I’ll give you a perfect example. ” But we’re still on paper.

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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.

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GeriPal

JUNE 6, 2024

On today’s podcast Areej El-Jawahri, oncologist specializing in blood cancers at MGH, says that sexual health is one of the top if not the top issue among cancer survivors. Alex 00:06 We are delighted to welcome back Areej El-Jawahri, who’s an oncologist at Massachusetts General Hospital who specializes in blood cancers.

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GeriPal

MARCH 27, 2025

But most people with dementia are initially diagnosed and medically managed in primary care, and they really desire clinicians to initiate these conversations but there are a number of really important barriers for these conversations taking place. There’s also education that goes with it, educating, like, what does that mean?

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GeriPal

MAY 1, 2025

One in 10 people with newly diagnosed HIV is an older adult. And over that first 15 years, which was a very difficult time when there was no treatment at all available, everybody died and usually within months or a year or two of when they were diagnosed. And I also read that 1 out of 10 newly diagnosed HIV cases are in older adults.

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GeriPal

APRIL 21, 2022

We talk not only about reading poetry, but also writing poetry, and using poetry in medical education as a healing modality. She’s a palliative care nurse educator and a writer, and she’s joining us from the great state of Hawaii. And along the way, we really felt like we got to the heart of things. Redwing: Thank you.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 21, 2023

This model will give participating programs a per-member-per-month payment to offer care management, care coordination, and other services such as caregiver training, disease education, and respite. I had the tenacity and education to try to figure this out. They could have diagnosed him earlier. I had a supportive spouse.

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Pamela Wible MD

JUNE 19, 2025

An inspiring leader and educator of the next generation of physicians, Doctor Wible has been named one of the 2015 Women Leaders in Medicine and the “Physicians Guardian Angel.” Well, we had an inadequate medical education. And you’re paying extra because your medical education lacked what you wished you would have received.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 17, 2025

He was diagnosed as a baby with Prader-Willi syndrome — a rare disorder sparked by a genetic abnormality. But Strong said that already some of the contacts at the FDA she’d spent nearly 15 years educating about the disorder have left the agency. Dean attends a special education program, his mother said.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

You can broaden the scope of diagnoses. And then, it did, finally, come to an end, but the hospital-at-home community was able to educate policymakers. We’re moving back to an earlier time, in a way, in which the locus of care wasn’t in these highly specialized hospitals. It really doesn’t matter all that much.

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PEMBlog

MAY 9, 2024

And then there’s genetic epilepsy plus febrile seizures, which you are not going to diagnose in the ED. So that’s one special population with a complex febrile seizure, even two in a 24 hour period that deserves special workup. You’re providing education and reassurance to a worried family.

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