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What is a Leadership Course

LEAD Physician

For these reasons, physicians must learn about leadership skills not just as part of their general education but also as part of their continuing medical education (CME). For example, a physician might be dealing with a patient who has just been diagnosed with cancer. How can a physician lead their field?

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Urinary Incontinence Revisited: George Kuchel & Alison Huang

GeriPal

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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Transforming the Culture of Dementia Care: Podcast with Anne Basting, Ab Desai, Susan McFadden, and Judy Long

GeriPal

And for people with dementia and their caregivers, who both feel very devalued in the social system, support systems, their communities, the medical system. And then the people with the other kinds of diagnoses feel left out because we talk about Alzheimer’s all the time. They get very little build up, they’re depleted.

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Images of the Dying: A Podcast with Wendy MacNaughton, Lingsheng Li, and Frank Ostaseski

GeriPal

I was on a retreat with Guy Micco , who’s been on this podcast several times, and he was teaching a class on death while I was in medical school. What is it about the images of the dying that helps teach medical students? And dying is too big, too profound for any one model, including the medical model.

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Stepped Palliative Care: A Podcast with Jennifer Temel, Chris Jones, and Pallavi Kumar

GeriPal

So, for example, everyone who was diagnosed with an advanced or metastatic lung cancer had a prognosis on the order of months. Eric 16:38 So everybody was diagnosed with an advanced lung cancer sometime in the last twelve weeks and then they were randomized. So there’s some trade offs there. I don’t know if any of you.

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Health and Wealth Shocks: Lauren Hunt, Rebecca Rodin, Tsai-Chin Cho

GeriPal

Disruptive events are medical, surgical. And hospitalization for pneumonia is like a medical event. May not even know that the patient has dementia, or they might think that, but it’s not been diagnosed. And maybe we’ll turn now from these medical and surgical events to start talking about social events.

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Poetry & Palliative Care: Podcast with Mike Rabow and Redwing Keyssar

GeriPal

We talk not only about reading poetry, but also writing poetry, and using poetry in medical education as a healing modality. Redwing: When you’re diagnosed with cancer, the first thing you think about is when you’re going to die. Alex: It sounds like that might be a part of the workshops that you run. AlexSmithMD .