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Multi-year Evaluation of Family Medicine Residency Programs for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Milestones [Education and training]

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: As the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) began to ask programs to report their efforts surrounding diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI), program directors felt ill prepared to evaluate their programs and measure change. Population Studied: Program directors of ACGME-accredited family medicine residencies.

Family Medicine

Family Medicine DO Families Family

Practice patterns of Ontario physicians working in 'boutique' medical clinics [Economic or policy analysis]

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Objective: Identify practice patterns of family physicians practicing within boutique clinics in Ontario. Boutique clinics were more likely to see patients for musculoskeletal, dermatologic, and infectious disease illnesses. There was a higher rate of referrals to dermatology, surgery, and family practice from boutique clinics.

Clinic

Clinic Referral Primary Care Physician Primary Care

What Does Behavioral Health Provider Practice in Primary Care Look Like? [Behavioral, psychosocial, and mental illness]

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Setting: Seven family medicine practices in one Colorado USA health system. Patients were seen by the BHPs for a wide variety of presenting concerns. Analysis involved descriptive statistics and a qualitative modified rapid matrix approach. Results: 76 patient visits were conducted during the observation period by BHPs.

Primary Care

Primary Care Provider Illness Consulting

Substance Use Disorder Screening in Adolescent Patients in Primary Care: Findings, Challenges, Lessons Learned [Behavioral, psychosocial, and mental illness]

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

In our institution, screenings are completed for patients ≥15 years during well visits; those not presenting for well visits and under 15 may represent missed opportunities. Early identification and intervention of substance use disorders (SUD) could reduce morbidity and mortality. Design: Convenience survey design.

Primary Care

Primary Care Screening Referral Wellness Visit

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

Common Sense Family Doctor

MARCH 18, 2025

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.

Mental Health

Mental Health IT Primary Care Primary Care Physician

Scope This! A Podcast on Gastroesophageal Reflux and Gastritis

PEMBlog

OCTOBER 2, 2024

Understanding dyspepsia and its clinical presentation. Both conditions can present with similar symptoms. Adolescents with GERD often present similarly to adults with heartburn and regurgitation as the primary complaints. And the presentation for GERD varies by age. Now there are some risk factors for GERD.

Diagnosis

Diagnosis Management IT Patient-Centered

Why Regular Check-ups Matter: Preventive Care at Mesa Family Physicians

Mesa Family Physician

MARCH 13, 2025

However, at Mesa Family Physicians , we believe that preventive healthcare is the cornerstone of long-term wellness for our Mesa, Arizona community. Regular visits to your primary care physician at Mesa Family Physicians provide opportunities for early detection of potential health issues before they become serious problems.

Family Physician

Family Physician Preventative Care Preventive Care Families

Deprescribing Super Special Part II: Podcast with Elizabeth Bayliss, Ariel Green, and Kevin McConeghy

GeriPal

AUGUST 4, 2022

Liz Bayliss is Senior Investigator at Kaiser Permanente Colorado Institute for Health Research, and Professor of Family Medicine at the University of Colorado. Alex: And we have Ariel Green, who’s a geriatrician and Associate Professor of Medicine at Johns Hopkins. Welcome, Liz, to the GeriPal Podcast. Ariel: Sure.

Specialization

Specialization Medical Patient-Centered Provider

Primary Care Addiction Consultation Service: Colorados Implementation Support for Medication for Opioid Use Disorder (MOUD) [Behavioral, psychosocial, and mental illness]

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

This intervention used a primary care addiction consultation service model including education, an addiction medicine consultant, and practice facilitation to increase capacity for opioid use disorder (OUD) treatment. Results Practice types included clinician-owned, FQHCs, and system-owned; most specialized in family medicine (91%, N=22).

Primary Care

Primary Care Consulting Medical Illness

Episode 236: ARM Episode 16 – Live from SGIM: Best of Antiracism Research at the Society of General Internal Medicine’s 2022 Annual Meeting

The Clinical Problem Solvers

MAY 2, 2022

Dr. Okah is a family medicine clinician and NRSA research fellow at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine, and she studies the association between the use of race in medical decision-making and beliefs regarding the etiology of disparities in health outcomes. His team found that 1.5% Orlando, FL. Orlando, FL.

Healthcare

Healthcare Utilities Hospital Internal Medicine

Black History Month: 10 Champions of Children’s Health & Wellness

Georgetown Pediatrics & Family Medicine

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

From The Children’s Foundation : In celebration of Black History Month, we are reflecting and honoring the contributions Black leaders have made toward the advancement of equality and improvement of children’s health and wellness, both historically and in the present day. It doesn’t always have to be about mental illness.”

Mental Health

Mental Health Patient-Centered Hospital Education

Potentially Unsafe Low-evidence Treatments: Adam Marks, Laura Taylor, & Jill Schneiderhan

GeriPal

APRIL 24, 2025

Daneila Lamas wrote about this issue in the New York Times this week -after we recorded – in her story, a family requested an herbal infusion for their dying mother via feeding tube. If its potentially unsafe, but has robust evidence, well thats most of the treatments we offer seriously ill patients! Ivermectin to treat cancer.

Patient-Centered

Patient-Centered IT Patients Illness

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

GeriPal

APRIL 6, 2023

Today we have a star-studded lineup, including Lexy Torke of Indiana University, who discusses her RCT of a chaplaincy intervention for surrogates of patients in the ICU , published in JPSM and plenary presentation at AAHPM/HPNA. LaVera: I trained at UCSF in family medicine. You started off as a physician, right? LaVera: Yes.

IT

IT Patient-Centered Families Family

Stories We Tell Each Other to Heal: Ricky Leiter, Alexis Drutchas, & Emily Silverman

GeriPal

DECEMBER 5, 2024

And I was interviewing candidates for our clinical fellowship and interviewed Alexis, who had been like family medicine doc before, done all kinds of cool things. Maybe the alternative of the patient whose family hopes for a miracle in the face of certain death, for only that death to occur as anticipated by all.

IT

IT Community Patients Families

HIV, Aging, and Palliative Care: Peter Selwyn and Meredith Greene

GeriPal

MAY 1, 2025

Alex 00:07 We are delighted to welcome Peter Selwyn, who is a family medicine and palliative medicine doctor and chairman of the Department of Family and Social Medicine and director of the Palliative Care Program at Montefiore E instein and author of Surviving the the Personal Journey of an AIDS Doctor.

Primary Care

Primary Care IT Clinic Provider

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Multi-year Evaluation of Family Medicine Residency Programs for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Milestones [Education and training]

Practice patterns of Ontario physicians working in 'boutique' medical clinics [Economic or policy analysis]

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What Does Behavioral Health Provider Practice in Primary Care Look Like? [Behavioral, psychosocial, and mental illness]

Substance Use Disorder Screening in Adolescent Patients in Primary Care: Findings, Challenges, Lessons Learned [Behavioral, psychosocial, and mental illness]

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

Scope This! A Podcast on Gastroesophageal Reflux and Gastritis

Why Regular Check-ups Matter: Preventive Care at Mesa Family Physicians

Deprescribing Super Special Part II: Podcast with Elizabeth Bayliss, Ariel Green, and Kevin McConeghy

Primary Care Addiction Consultation Service: Colorados Implementation Support for Medication for Opioid Use Disorder (MOUD) [Behavioral, psychosocial, and mental illness]

Episode 236: ARM Episode 16 – Live from SGIM: Best of Antiracism Research at the Society of General Internal Medicine’s 2022 Annual Meeting

Black History Month: 10 Champions of Children’s Health & Wellness

Potentially Unsafe Low-evidence Treatments: Adam Marks, Laura Taylor, & Jill Schneiderhan

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

Stories We Tell Each Other to Heal: Ricky Leiter, Alexis Drutchas, & Emily Silverman

HIV, Aging, and Palliative Care: Peter Selwyn and Meredith Greene

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