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Bup-ing Up Residency: A Dose of Change for OUD Care [Education and training]

Annals of Family Medicine

To prepare family medicine (FM) residents for OUD care post graduation, it is critical they receive robust residency training in OUD diagnosis and management. It included training in OUD diagnosis and management with modules, medication assisted therapy (MAT) clinics, inpatient addiction psychiatry rotations and didactic lectures.

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Coach McLungsSM, Facilitating Shared Decision Making for Asthma - Patients and Caregivers Perspectives [Health care informatics]

Annals of Family Medicine

SDM involves a collaborative process between patients and providers to make informed healthcare choices. Population Studied: English speaking patients ages 7-17 years old with a diagnosis of asthma without a severe learning disability, blindness, or hearing loss. Results: As of 3/25/24, 189 families have completed the survey.

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Differences in Confidence Levels in Eight Sources of Information between Rural and Urban Cancer Patients and Survivors [Health care disparities]

Annals of Family Medicine

Understanding health information seeking behavior is critical in providing effective interventions and improving quality of life for patients, especially for those facing complex health needs. The data was obtained from the 2022 Health Information National Trends Survey® (HINTS). Objectives. Conclusions.

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Evaluating effectiveness of educational intervention on syphilis screening and interpretation in a Family Medicine Residency [Infectious diseases (not respiratory tract)]

Annals of Family Medicine

Post-hoc power analysis for appropriate versus inappropriate diagnosis and management was very low (2.7% A t-test and discrimination index was performed to evaluate responses to the survey with descriptive statistics, Chi-square and Fisher Exact test performed on chart review data. respectively).

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Discussing autism diagnosis with kids

Medical Xpress

With better awareness and acceptance, approximately one out of every 50 children is receiving an autism diagnosis. More and more families are deciding when to share this information with their child. Some parents worry that doing so will "label" their child, or make others treat them differently.

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November: National Diabetes Month

Center for Family Medicine (CFM)

million Americans are living with diabetes without a formal diagnosis. Because it is National Diabetes Month, we wanted to provide some information that can help you learn about and, if applicable, manage the disease. Want More Information about Diabetes? According to the Center for Disease Control (CDC) around 29.7

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AI Model Can Aid Physicians in Skin Cancer Diagnoses

Physician's Weekly

TUESDAY, June 17, 2025 (HealthDay News) — The PanDerm artificial intelligence (AI) model improves skin cancer diagnosis when used by doctors, according to a research article published online June 6 in Nature Medicine. PanDerm outperformed clinicians by 10.2 percent across 128 skin conditions on clinical photographs.