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Effect of brief dermoscopy training on primary care providers' diagnostic accuracy on a test and in practice [Education and training]

Annals of Family Medicine

Setting: Divisions of Family Medicine and Community Internal Medicine at a large academic medical center in Southeast Minnesota. Population studied: Primary care providers (physicians, nurse practitioners, and physician assistants), 43 in phase 1 and 13 in phase 2.

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Experiences of Canadians without a primary care clinician [Survey research or cross-sectional study]

Annals of Family Medicine

Outcome Measures Sociodemographic characteristics of people without a family physician or nurse practitioner (primary care clinician), related healthcare seeking behaviours, importance of primary care attributes, and preferences towards reorganizing primary care. Setting Canada. Results 22.0%

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Building Capacity to Address Opioid Use Disorder: Results from an embedded education program in health profession curricula [Behavioral, psychosocial, and mental illness]

Annals of Family Medicine

The population of focus included medical students, nurse practitioners and physician assistants. Intervention: Our university developed a training for pre-licensure physicians, physician assistants and nurse practitioners that included the required training for prescribers and a shadowing experience.

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Your Guide to Healthcare Careers in New Haven County, CT

Physicians Alliance of Connecticut

including in-demand jobs, education options, and career outlooks, can help you find a fulfilling position in the area. The state’s Department of Labor projects that healthcare practitioners and healthcare support occupations will see greater employment through 2030, particularly in chronic care and family medicine.

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Primary Care Clinician Perspectives on Managing Hypertension in Black Patients: Lifestyle Changes and Shared Decision Making [Hypertension]

Annals of Family Medicine

Population Studied: Primary care clinicians with prescribing privileges including physicians, physician assistants, and nurse practitioners (N=58). Setting: Two health care systems in New York City. Instrument: Self-administered survey.

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Substance Use Disorder in Aging and Serious Illness: A Podcast with Katie Fitzgerald Jones, Jessica Merlin, Devon Check

GeriPal

Alex: We are delighted to welcome back to the GeriPal podcast, Katie Fitzgerald Jones, who’s a nurse scientist at the New England Geriatric Research Education and Clinical Center, and a palliative and addiction nurse practitioner at the VA in Boston. AMA PRA Category 1 credit(s) â„¢. Katie, welcome back to GeriPal.

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RCT of Chaplaincy: Lexy Torke, Karen Steinhauser, LaVera Crawley

GeriPal

Practice-PC is an intentionally interprofessional and cutting edge year-long group continuing education course in palliative care for working professionals from all disciplines, in the Bay Area. In addition to that long list, I was also a chaplain educator. LaVera: I trained at UCSF in family medicine. LaVera: Yes.

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