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Evaluating the Impact of a Longitudinal Clerkship Lecture on Medical Students Knowledge and Response to Human Trafficking [Education and training]

Annals of Family Medicine

People who experience HT interact with the healthcare system before, during, and after the period of victimization, yet there remains limited knowledge and intervention among healthcare professionals. Few medical schools include this topic in their curriculum, and it is not standardized in undergraduate medical education.

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Artificial Intelligence in Health Care

Integrated Care News by CFHA

I believe that as clinicians, educators and supervisors, we are called to guide this shift. When used intentionally, AI can help us: draft progress notes or referral letters, suggest evidence‑based interventions or psycho‑educational handouts, and organize task lists, reminders and teaching materials so we can focus on patients and learners.

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

GeriPal

After discussing screening options for substance use disorder, we go on to talk about both the treatments for it and the issues that arise. So, we are not screening for substance use in cancer care, so we don’t get good estimates among people with cancer, which is really how we would prefer to ask the question. Katie: Yeah.

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Psychological Issues in Palliative Care: Elissa Kozlov and Des Azizoddin

GeriPal

Analyzing the Health and Retirement Study, she found 60% of older adults screened positive for depression in the last year of life (related study here ). We saw that around 60% of people were screening positive for depression in the last month before death. Or is it that I’m just not screening? That’s a lot.

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EMS Intervention to Reduce Falls: Carmen Quatman and Katie Quatman-Yates

GeriPal

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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How to Make an Alzheimer’s Diagnosis in Primary Care: A Podcast with Nathaniel Chin

GeriPal

How should we screen for cognitive impairment? Who do you think we should be screening and how should we be screening them for these symptoms? Well, so I guess it depends on what you say screening. That screening influences kind of further treatment, actually, probably more importantly, patient outcomes.

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Time for Geriatric Assessments in Cancer Care: William Dale, Mazie Tsang, and John Simmons

GeriPal

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. There’s really no added extra resource or time that the coordinators really need to put to doing the screening, themselves. And there are only two of us.”