Physicians Alliance of Connecticut

MAY 15, 2025

Make An Impact on Your Community Healthcare is more than a job — it’s a calling. Many healthcare professionals are drawn to the field because they want to help others and make a positive impact on people’s lives. For some, that involves providing high-quality care to individual patients.

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Physicians Alliance of Connecticut

APRIL 12, 2025

Bureau of Labor Statistics projects that the field will grow by 15 percent from 2023 to 2033 , which is higher than the average for roles that provide support to healthcare professionals. Education and Training A career in medical assisting begins with enrolling in a medical assistant training program.

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

OCTOBER 18, 2022

All healthcare professionals will have patients who are directly or indirectly impacted by the carceral system. Providing communities with the resources they need to survive, such as educational opportunities, jobs, and quality healthcare, will eliminate the need for incarceration.

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GeriPal

MAY 11, 2023

It’s just another example of, I think, that there’s a little extra special sauce there in the Beeson program. Certainly education, quality of education is extremely important. Some of them, like education, definitely social determinants of health. That’s really falling apart. So, that’s one thing.

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GeriPal

MAY 19, 2022

I think we are obliged, and speaking as a clinician educator here. Eric: But is that just something special about methadone and buprenorphine? The post Rethinking Opioid Conversions: Mary Lynn McPherson and Drew Rosielle appeared first on A Geriatrics and Palliative Care Podcast for Every Healthcare Professional.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 12, 2023

Number three, this specialized prepared environment that promotes safe mobility and cognitive stimulation and delirium prevention, so sort of environmental changes. And that’s to include making sure we’re using safe prescribing practices. Can we set up systems that allow them to make the right choices in caring for older adults?

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GeriPal

JULY 27, 2023

Alex: And we have Cathy Alessi, who is a geriatrician, Director of the Geriatrics Research Education and Clinical Care Center at the VA, greater Los Angeles and Professor of Medicine at UCLA. And in preparation for this, I’m seeing that sleep hygiene by itself really doesn’t do anything, education around sleep hygiene.

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GeriPal

MAY 9, 2024

all of whom focus their efforts on educating the general public about living and dying with a serious illness. Well, I think it was from a place of serious frustration that Hsien and I both felt in our careers that we had spent decades between us trying to change the healthcare system. AMA PRA Category 1 credit(s) ™.

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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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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. It actually can be applied to research and education, too.

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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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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

And when I think about some of the … There was actually a meta-analysis looking at specialized palliative care studies, only half of the 10 randomized control studies had a social worker as part of that team. It’s used a lot in the education world. And that’s something we have to just think about.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 29, 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

MAY 22, 2025

My voice is nothing special. The post Music as Medicine: Jenny Chen, Tyler Jorgensen, & Theresa Allison appeared first on A Geriatrics and Palliative Care Podcast for Every Healthcare Professional. I rely on recorded music for my patients mostly, and I think that’s based on my singing. Alex 09:00 Not true.

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GeriPal

JULY 11, 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 8, 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

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

So I make the point, they often say, “Oh, you have this special population,” like pediatrics, where it’s 10% or something. 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.

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GeriPal

APRIL 14, 2022

We got some really special guests with us. And so that lends it properties of being a pretty strong analgesic and it lends its special properties for safety, from a safety profile. Management of chronic pain in the elderly: focus on transdermal buprenorphine. Transcript. Eric: Welcome to the GeriPal Podcast. This is Eric Widera.

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GeriPal

MAY 8, 2025

So in our trial, because of security reasons, we are required by Health Canada to store the substance in a special secure area in my office. 7 out of 10 of these patients said it was one of the top five most educational and meaningful experiences of their entire lives. Do you educate them not to drive? And they drive.

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GeriPal

APRIL 4, 2024

Arguing for the state of Missouri against the Cruzan’s was Ken Starr, who would later be assigned the role of special prosecutor in the investigation of the Clintons (Whitewater, Lewensky, etc). He was the special prosecutor. The hospital refused without a court order, and the case eventually made its way to the Supreme Court.

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GeriPal

JULY 28, 2022

Alex: And we are also delighted to welcome Areej El-Jawahri, who is an oncologist at Massachusetts General Hospital as well, who specializes in blood cancers. So I really opted to specialize in lung cancer because I thought that was the appropriate population to build a supportive and palliative care research agenda. Jennifer: Thanks.

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GeriPal

JUNE 13, 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

JUNE 5, 2025

Despite these substantial needs, specialized palliative care beyond hospice is rare in nursing homes. How to think about primary and specialized palliative care in this setting. But some of these things are addressable potentially through education. Many also suffer from distressing symptoms like pain. What do we know about.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 29, 2024

We’ve done work with medical improvised, we’ve done work in museum based education. And my grandkid, like, I need you to see this child and, like, how wonderful and special they are. And then we’ve had colleagues that have helped us think about other ways to grow some of these. I heard that.

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GeriPal

APRIL 28, 2022

He uses comics and other artwork to share his experiences in palliative care and educate others about topics like empathy and communication skills. And then also potentially from an educational standpoint. So this one really hit home for me as a great educational tool. Eric: Do you use this also in more formal education?

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GeriPal

APRIL 10, 2025

primary palliative care interventions seem to fail, whereas specialized palliative care interventions have a relatively robust track record of success. Eric 19:30 Should we add that to special effects as our producer? The one thing that we know is that education alone will not actually deliver behavior change.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 11, 2022

Brian: I guess I’m thinking about hearing all this as a more recent product of medical education here. And learners were excited about it and interested in it because a lot of these people were fantastic educators. The things that I’m most proud of are my people, the people who I’ve educated and trained.

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Illness IT Family Families 109

GeriPal

OCTOBER 17, 2024

Because I think we have someone special, a guest host. And I think one key part is educating the field, not just my fellow cardiologists, but also primary care doctors, geriatricians, that there’s this heart failure syndrome that is kind of sneaky, and it’s kind of difficult to diagnose any. This is Eric Widera.

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GeriPal

APRIL 6, 2023

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. It meets in-person, once a month, over nine sessions.

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GeriPal

MARCH 24, 2023

It’s going to be published as a special report in JPM I hope in May with as of today, 279, I think HPM physician colleagues, signatures including 21 of the living past presidents of the academy. How do we make this work for patients and families? I’ll give you a perfect example. ” But we’re still on paper.

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GeriPal

MARCH 28, 2024

Kate: Yeah, some of the thoughts I’ve had in thinking about this: we did not require communication, training and education of the clinicians. The post PC Trials at State of Science: Tom LeBlanc, Kate Courtright, & Corita Grudzen appeared first on A Geriatrics and Palliative Care Podcast for Every Healthcare Professional.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

So thinking about, you know, if you are in sort of a home where you’re more likely to Experience childhood abuse that may potentially limit your education trajectory and your ability to attend school. And I think as an educator it’s been really important in particular to focus on that final, that last one.

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GeriPal

JUNE 29, 2023

This week we’re going on to episode two, which is for me one of the most special episodes we’ve done in GeriPal for a very, very long time. Eric: And in the end, we have a very special part where we actually get a tour of their gardens outside of the hospice unit. Alex: This is Alex Smith. I only know what I see.

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GeriPal

MARCH 10, 2022

She’s a geriatric nurse practitioner specializing in palliative care, and assistant professor at the University of Maryland School of Nursing. Caroline: Again, just further educating on the front lines and families in particular, I think is really important as well as these policy implications. Joan: Thanks.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 5, 2024

So has a special resonance for, I think, a lot of people who are Tragically H ip fans. I can remember two instances of storytelling in training or in education, I guess. It was my first concert without my parents. Alex 01:54 And you’ve been requesting, I think, the Tragically Hip previously, but we got denied.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

They have a special skill, and when they see someone who needs it, they need to use it. That makes it really special for them and for me. The post Allowing Patients to Die: Louise Aronson and Bill Andereck appeared first on A Geriatrics and Palliative Care Podcast for Every Healthcare Professional. And I was.

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GeriPal

MARCH 31, 2022

Marilyn is joined by Guy Micco to talk about why poetry is important in general, why it’s important in medical or nursing education, and why it’s important for people who care for older adults. Steve had a very special ability in that. Poetry deals in surprise and subversion and turns old words to new purposes. Have you ever done that?

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