Maine Academy of Family Physicians

JULY 11, 2024

3 Tufts University School of Medicine Maine Track students and 5 University of New England College of Osteopathic Medicine students participated as teachers during the event. 16 students from Portland High School and Deering High School attended.

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BMJ

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Value, challenges and practical considerations when designing, conducting and analysing a longitudinal qualitative study in family medicine | Family Medicine and Community Health (bmj.com). While it is being increasingly used in applied health research, it is relatively underutilised in family medicine.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: Western values of heroism and individualistic empowerment exert significant influence over how we make meaning out of patient stories. Currently, the field of narrative-based medicine (NBM) lacks research that examines the potential harms of using dominant Western narrative forms to represent patients’ lived experiences.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: Leading the OECD PaRIS Project in Saskatchewan (SK) was an integrated primary care collaborative team consisting of primary care providers (PCPs), people with lived experience (PWLE) aka patients, health system partners and researchers. Instrument: Survey developed and approved by the OECD-PaRIS Working Group.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Objective The PORTRAIT Registry tracked 797 patients with new or worsening PAD symptoms at vascular specialty clinics and highlighted the underutilization of prevention services and significant disparities in quality of life among women, non-white patients, and those with financial barriers.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

There were no adverse events. Prolotherapy may be appropriate care for carefully selected patients who have failed other therapy. Oswestry-based function score improvements also favored the prolotherapy group at 6 (16±19 vs 5±18 points; p =.001; 001; 95% CI [4.0-18.5]) 18.5]) and 12 (16±20 vs 8±19 points; p=.04;

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context Ten percent of patients using prescription drugs experience adverse drug events (ADE). family medicine) and the need for education in this area. Conclusions The role and responsibilities of Family Medicine providers about PGx require further study. Recurrent themes were identified.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

An Ad Hoc Overdose Response program was created taking a Peer Support Specialist (a recovered addict) to 911 overdose calls to bring the lived experience of the Peer Support Specialist to the scene of calls and post event issues at local hospitals and after the calls if no contact was made with the patient. Through a funded grant.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

CONTEXT Chronic ankle instability (CAI) is common in primary care; up to 43% patients report residual instability and 21.4% Satisfaction with DPT was high; no procedure-related adverse events were reported. report recurrent sprains after conservative care. Better non-surgical care is needed. to 6.89, P=0.017).

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Joy in Family Medicine Coaching

JANUARY 10, 2025

You Know This - still - it’s a good time to review through the lens of self instead of patient care. Lower risks of cardiovascular events and all-cause mortality. Last week we reviewed a helpful lifestyle change framework. Today we go a bit more in depth on movement and exercise. At the end of the day most of us are wiped.

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Imperial Center Family Medicine

APRIL 14, 2025

Early screening reveals these “silent” health threats that may otherwise go undetected for years until more serious heart issues such as chest pain, heart failure, or events such as heart attacks or strokes arise. As always, the decision requires thoughtful discussions between patients and doctors.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: Clinicians and patients often face a decision to continue or discontinue statins to maximize benefit and minimize the risk of harm. Population Studied: Adults ≥18 years Intervention/Instrument: Discontinuation of statin medications Outcome Measures: All-cause mortality, cardiovascular (CV) mortality, and CV events (e.g.,

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Joy in Family Medicine Coaching

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

TLDR at bottom* The Challenge of Emotions in Medicine As physicians, we encounter a LOT of interesting situations and can experience a LOT of emotions. We often distance ourselves from emotions to stay focused in emergencies or maintain professionalism with patients or in power differential situations in training. I'm still driving.

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ABIM

JUNE 12, 2025

Expanding ABIM’s engagement with stakeholder communities such as early career physicians, specialty societies and patient-focused organizations. The conversation touched on the need to more consistently reference “older adult(s)” instead of “elderly” and the relatively low percentage of geriatric content in internal medicine assessments.

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Permanente Medicine

MAY 20, 2025

Khang Nguyen, MD, chief transformation officer of the Southern California Permanente Medical Group, discusses how AI can increase clinicians’ joy in medicine and improve patient outcomes with Chris Grant, chief operating offer and executive vice president of Kaiser Permanente, The Permanente Federation, and host of the Permanente Medicine Podcast.

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Plum Health

JUNE 29, 2023

Here are some of the key findings: A wildfire event can cause feelings of confusion, anger, fear, and loss, all of which can have long-term impacts on the people and communities that experience them. In general, for all patients, I recommend limiting the amount of time outside today or wearing a mask if outside, ideally an N95.

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Priority Physicians

JANUARY 27, 2025

In fact, for people who’ve experienced terrifying or anxiety-inducing events, therapists apply eye movement desensitization and reprocessing, or EMDR, a technique that mimics the patient’s REM-sleep eye movements, allowing them to “relive” and discuss the incident with decreased anxiety.) He completed his residency at St.

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PEMBlog

OCTOBER 2, 2024

I’ll make the important distinction between gastritis – which is diagnosed only via endoscopy – and dyspepsia, the term best used to describe the symptoms many patients experience. Gastroesophageal reflux disease is when the patients have severe symptoms that persist and cause long term issues.

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New South Family Medicine and MedSpa

NOVEMBER 24, 2022

Direct primary care offers you and your family top-notch health care, and so much more.like a high patient and provider satisfaction with an improved quality of care. Instead, they establish a direct patient-provider relationship, for a flat fee. You can continue to use your insurance for medications and for labs as well.

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Family Medicine Initiative

APRIL 28, 2025

The Phase 3 study (November 2022) involving 1,795 patients with mild Alzheimer’s disease showed that, after 18 months, there was a modest reduction in the decline of cognitive and functional symptoms of dementia: The difference of 0.45 However, for patients, the absolute difference is what matters. points is very small. CDR-SB points).

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Methods: In-depth semi-structured interviews using the Database of Individual Patient Experiences (DIPEx) methodology. Participants were recruited via electronic healthcare records, community tabling events, and social media efforts. Verbatim transcripts in English and Spanish were analyzed in NVivo 14.

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Center for Family Medicine

JUNE 13, 2025

The gradual buildup of plaque in the arteries often goes unnoticed until a major event occurs. During check-ups, patients should ask primary care providers about current blood pressure and cholesterol levels. These conditions can lead to heart attacks, strokes, and other serious complications.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Using linked administrative databases, we identified all instances of PIP-AP according to the STOPP-START criteria, which have previously been shown to predict adverse clinical events such as ED visits and hospitalizations. Residents were followed for 1 year or to date of death, whichever occurred first.

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Maine Academy of Family Physicians

OCTOBER 22, 2023

6-week Medical Student Externship - Medical Student Externship Report – Molly Mann, MS2 2023 July – August "My externship experience consisted of shadowing Dr. Der Simonian at the Falmouth Family Medicine office and at the Maine Medical Center Mother Baby Unit.

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GeriPal

MARCH 9, 2023

Early data on efficacy in patients with anxiety and demoralization are promising. Two of our guests today, Stacy Fischer and Brian Anderson, are involved in large multicenter trials of psychedelics for patients with advanced cancer (Fischer) or life-limiting illness (Anderson). Research is exploding. You’ve been trained?

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 5, 2024

We talked with Thor Ringler, who helped found the My Life My Story Project at the VA and beyond, and Heather Coats about the evidence base for capturing patient stories. It was like kind of a co op with this common space that different groups could rent for events and meetings and things like that. Ricky 11:23 Yeah.

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BMJ

JUNE 25, 2021

Findings from a longitudinal study using primary care records, Family Medicine and Community Health 2021; 9: e000780. 2–5 These drugs are usually taken over long time periods to prevent cardiac events, yet little is known about the long-term effects on all-cause mortality.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

The decision to initiate insulin is a critical aspect of diabetes management and is influenced by various patient-specific factors. Study Design and Analysis: A cohort design using routine care data, we utilized Fine and Gray’s survival analysis to examine time-to-insulin initiation while accounting for death as a competing event.

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