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Assessment of Project ECHO(R) Opioid Use Disorder Sessions for Primary Care Teams [Education and training]

Annals of Family Medicine

Context: In the US, opioid use disorder (OUD) presents significant and urgent public health concerns. Unfortunately, most individuals suffering from OUD do not have access to necessary care. Participants were more confident in screening and diagnosing, harm reduction, and motivational interviewing.

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Project ECHO Rheumatology - Rationale and Results from a Multi-Method Study to Capture Impact [Musculoskeletal and rheumatology]

Annals of Family Medicine

Context Project ECHO (Extension for Community Healthcare Outcomes) is a virtually-delivered health professions education model, designed to improve patient care by enhancing primary care capacity in specialty topics. Conclusion The burden of rheumatic disease is rising.

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Book Review: Has Medicine Lost Its Mind? by Dr. Robert C. Smith

Common Sense Family Doctor

Smith, a general internist and professor of medicine and psychiatry at Michigan State University, explains why our medical system consistently prioritizes physical over emotional health and presents some ambitious proposals for how to rectify this harmful disparity. This relatively slim volume is divided into three parts.

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Development and external validation of the FluScoreVax risk score for influenza that incorporates vaccine status (EAST-PC) [Acute respiratory infections]

Annals of Family Medicine

Setting or Dataset: Adults presenting to the outpatient setting in 12 European countries during flu season with a chief complaint of acute cough between 2007 and 2010 were used to derive and internally validate the risk score (GRACE data). It was then externally validated in a contemporary US population (EAST-PC data).

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Episode 307: Rafael Medina Subspecialty Series – Fever and Chills

The Clinical Problem Solvers

[link] In this Infectious Disease Rafael Medina Subspecialty Episode, Dr. Navila Sharif presents a case to Dr. Natasha Spottiswoode of a patient presenting for fevers and chills.

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US Adults Lack Awareness of Testicular Cancer

Physician's Weekly

While nearly 10,000 US adults are diagnosed with the disease each year, the survey results indicate that more needs to be done to educate the public about testicular cancer, particularly among younger men. We are fortunate in testicular cancer that the vast majority of patients are diagnosed at an early stage,” said Dr. Dason.

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Episode 79: Human Dx unknown with Reza & U of C residents – abdominal pain

The Clinical Problem Solvers

[link] Dr. Anand Jagannath presents a Human Dx unknown to Reza and U of C residents – Drs. Dr. Austin Rezigh Austin Rezigh is a third-year internal medicine, primary care track resident at the University of Colorado. Patients classically present with hypercalcemia, metabolic alkalosis, and renal insufficiency.