GeriPal

AUGUST 4, 2022

Next up, we chat with Liz Bayliss about her JAMA IM article that studied whether increasing awareness about deprescribing prior to primary care visits can reduce the use of potentially inappropriate long-term medications for individuals with cognitive impairment. Eric: So an educational component potentially going on there.

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GeriPal

JUNE 20, 2024

Accreditation In support of improving patient care, UCSF Office of CME is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

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IT Patient-Centered Patients Clinic 120

GeriPal

MAY 11, 2023

Certainly education, quality of education is extremely important. Some of them, like education, definitely social determinants of health. Like, education, is it that it prevents you from getting Alzheimer’s disease, or does it just give you more reserve so Alzheimer’s peeks out later?

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The Medical Futurist

JUNE 21, 2025

Here, we collected the top dermatology apps to aid your digital skin care. There are widely varying figures, ranging from 66% to 90% depending on the source of information.) Self-surveillance solutions, disease guides, educational apps as well as telehealth platforms appeared naturally in dermatology in the past decade.

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Patients Healthcare Board-Certified Telemedicine 111

GeriPal

JUNE 12, 2025

During my training, I didn’t receive much education about radiation oncology, and I’m not entirely sure what some of the terms mean (hypofractionated means fewer sessions, right?). Anish 07:54 I would say sort of echoing what Emily was just referring to is education is key. So I think education is key.

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The Motivated MD

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

In medicine, it is commonly agreed that ‘to err is human’ Most healthcare professionals would agree that humans make mistakes. From the moment you start post-graduate education (internship and residency), this is seen as a physician’s first ‘real job.’ So yes, humans make mistakes.

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Finance Individual Education Healthcare Professional 52

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Accreditation In support of improving patient care, UCSF Office of CME is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Thats my main take-home point after learning from our three guests today when talking about trauma-informed care, an approach that highlights key principles including safety, trustworthiness, peer support, collaboration, empowerment, and cultural sensitivity. She is a guest host and she’s a palliative care social worker.

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IT Patient-Centered Individual Screening 66

GeriPal

JANUARY 25, 2024

Accreditation In support of improving patient care, UCSF Office of CME is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

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Patient-Centered IT Illness Patients 122

GeriPal

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Today we talk with DorAnne Donesky, Michelle Milic, Naomi Saks, & Cara Wallace about the notion that we should revolutionize our education programs, training programs, teams, incentive structures, and practice to be intentionally interprofessional in all phases. In other words, in addition to being a specialist (e.g. Alex 22:05 Yeah.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 17, 2024

Alex 00:12 We have a guest host who has requested this episode, Matt Shuster, who’s a geriatrician and palliative care doc. And also I was in the HVMA primary care program. So kind of from a primary care point of view, the guys are doing okay. He’s in Boston. And Matt brought today’s topic to us.

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Primary Care Patient-Centered IT Patients 113

GeriPal

JULY 21, 2022

Eric: But before we jump into talking to your patients about driving retirement cessation, let’s talk about what is the role of the healthcare professional in this at all? Certainly my bias is that healthcare professionals really do have a role in this discussion. I can get you guys that information.

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GeriPal

JUNE 19, 2025

Alex 00:41 And we’re delighted to welcome Noelle Marie Javier, who goes by “she” “her” and is a geriatrician and palliative care doc professor, newly minted – c ongratulations – And a clinician educator at Mount Sinai in New York City. Noelle Marie, welcome to the GeriPal Podcast. Noelle Marie 00:57 Hi, everyone.

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Individual Community IT Chronic Condition 85

GeriPal

JUNE 27, 2024

Accreditation In support of improving patient care, UCSF Office of CME is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

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Illness IT Diagnosis Patient-Centered 129

GeriPal

OCTOBER 26, 2023

It’s very challenging from a hospitalist standpoint because I think there’s definitely a population of people who are not educated well about what are the outcomes when people go to subacute rehab, who benefits from that. We provide critical education. Sarguni: I hear what you’re saying and I struggle.

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Patient-Centered Hospital Patients IT 132

GeriPal

JANUARY 18, 2024

It is the CME activity provider’s responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABIM MOC credit. But the cancer specific databases just don’t have this information. It’s opening this stock box of, all of a sudden, now what do I do with this information? Katie: Yeah.

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Illness Patient-Centered Screening Clinic 136

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

So I would say that a lot of the education we received were on cutting edge research and the latest drugs in clinical trials, the latest cellular therapies that are coming out. Or is it the primary care document, who’s busy doing other things too, who probably won’t have the time to do a comprehensive geriatric assessment?

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Patient-Centered IT Patients Clinic 129

GeriPal

APRIL 4, 2024

The Cruzan ruling led to a flood of interest in Advance Directives, and eventually to the Patient Self Determination Act, which mandates provision of information about advanced directives to all hospitalized patients. Designation University of California, San Francisco, designates this enduring material for a maximum of 0.75

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Family Families Patient-Centered IT 112

GeriPal

MARCH 6, 2025

Just out of fellowship, Naheed built a palliative care program for homeless persons called the Palliative Education and Care for the Homeless (PEACH) Program. What is unique about the practice of palliative care for people experiencing homelessness? We have world class primary care, cancer care, palliative care.

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Healthcare IT Community Illness 100

GeriPal

JUNE 23, 2022

And that’s another huge source of data and that’s the data that generally informs the USPSTF and other guidelines. And that’s why I want women to have an informed decision. We sent PCPs a copy of the educational tool they would receive. Eric: So how do you actually convey the risk then? Mara: Exactly.

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Screening PCP PCP IT 99

GeriPal

AUGUST 17, 2023

So these folks who are taking it for the first time are going to be part of the new information that we have. And many people, many geriatricians and colleagues are going to be participating in databases where we collect information about people who are on these drugs. There’s a lot of stops along the way for education.

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Patient-Centered IT Clinic Patients 98

GeriPal

MAY 18, 2023

So the intention of the AGS Beers Criteria is to provide information primarily to clinicians, although to other audience as well, but medications that we consider to be potentially inappropriate in older adults. Eric: And Mike, you were talking about not being misunderstood. What is the intention of the Beers criteria, the AGS Beers Criteria?

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Medical IT Patients Clinic 97

GeriPal

JUNE 5, 2025

Kathleen 14:03 I mean, back to Cari’s, you know, what Cari was talking about, about financial barriers to palliative care services in the nursing home setting. Eric 14:32 So there’s financial disincentives for interdisciplinary palliative care teams. And so there was a lot of misconceptions around palliative care.

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Referral Nurse Practitioner Consulting Board-Certified 78

GeriPal

APRIL 10, 2025

But we felt like we want to give like the primary thing about clinical decision support is to give the provider information they don’t already have. Do they have documents in the record like medical orders for life sustaining treatment or a healthcare proxy? The emergency physician knows it’s not new information.

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Patient-Centered IT Hospital Patients 77

GeriPal

MARCH 24, 2022

I worry, as a ex-primary care doctor, how much time I have. So it’s an example of something that can start outside of the healthcare system and move its way in. Ideally, there’ll be a place in the chart that actually captures the name of that person and their contact information. I need structure.”

Illness 72

Illness IT Healthcare Patient-Centered 72

GeriPal

AUGUST 11, 2022

And so my first introduction to the field came with my first job in 1982, when I went to the Cambridge Hospital to do primary care and internal medicine. Brian: I guess I’m thinking about hearing all this as a more recent product of medical education here. Was before the Medicare hospice benefit. Susan: Great. Eric: Okay.

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Illness IT Families Family 109

GeriPal

MAY 26, 2022

Emily: I would say too that nothing in our framework is inconsistent with and I think we would actually very strongly encourage, but we’re told we didn’t have a word count to elaborate upon the point that there’s still an important role for outreach and education of individuals, right?

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Vaccination Individual IT Healthcare 87

GeriPal

MARCH 28, 2024

We all, when bombarded with information have to take certain elements of a decision and focus on those; and in the ICU, you can imagine, we’re bombarded with information a lot. Kate: Yeah, some of the thoughts I’ve had in thinking about this: we did not require communication, training and education of the clinicians.

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Consulting Patient-Centered IT Patients 115

GeriPal

MARCH 7, 2024

Whenever I take care of a patient, I see myself as a family practice doctor, but I’ve been a hospitalist, I’ve been a primary care doctor, and I’ve done palliative. ” I spent 32 years in information technology, would you believe, and switched over to this full time a few years ago. Alex: Yeah.

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Provider Illness IT Healthcare 117

GeriPal

APRIL 24, 2025

Accreditation In support of improving patient care, UCSF Office of CME is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

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Patient-Centered IT Patients Illness 77

GeriPal

MARCH 10, 2022

Ruth: Decision-making processes, we saw the lower nursing homes tended to have a clear process for advanced care planning and for decision making to include families in an informed decision. But if people aren’t given all the information that they need, they’re not even provided with a choice, then that’s a disparity.

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Nurse Practitioner Hospital Family Families 60

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

Alex 00:27 And we’re delighted to welcome for the first time, guest Bill Ander e ch, who’s a primary care internist and senior scholar in Sutter Health’s program in M edicine and Human Values, a program that he co-founded with a former UCSF faculty member, Al Johnson. Louise, welcome back to GeriPal.

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Patients IT Patient-Centered Hospital 98

GeriPal

APRIL 18, 2024

And the actors were blinded to whether this was a primary care doctor or a chat bot answering them. It was specific to the relationship with the patient, the patient’s social context in which they might take this information. I don’t need to know how to bill, to enter encounter information to code. Eric: Yeah.

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IT Electronics Patients Healthcare 139

GeriPal

MARCH 27, 2025

Today we are delighted to welcome Jennifer Wolff, Sydney Dy, and Danny Scerpella, who conducted a pragmatic trial of advance care planning (ACP) in primary care practices; and Jasmine Santoyo-Olsson, who wrote an accompanying commentary in JAMA Internal Medicine. Jennifer, welcome to the GeriPal Podcast. Sydney 00:41 Thank you.

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Primary Care IT Clinic Patient-Centered 79

GeriPal

JUNE 6, 2024

And that really is what prompted me to get certified as a sexual education provider. So most of us in primary care, it’s probably even worse. So cancer.net has information on this. I think there’s a lot more good, high quality information available to folks, and. We just don’t have time.

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Illness IT Physicals Patients 130

GeriPal

JULY 20, 2023

So recognizing that the public health emergency was going to be declared over and all those temporary waivers were going to expire, the DEA actually put out a request for information about should it go back to life as it was, or should they potentially have some new rules or new flexibilities? I want to be mindful of time.

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