Center for Family Medicine (CFM)

MAY 1, 2025

Knowing these numbers, it’s imperative we take the opportunity for education and discussion. We have the chance to support each other by breaking the stigma, utilizing local and federal resources, and better recognizing the signs and symptoms. Nearly 1 in 5 U.S. adults experience mental illness each year. What is Mental Health?

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Minnesota Academy of Family Physicians

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

How Family Physicians Can Help Address Food Insecurity Family physicians are often the first point of contact for patients, uniquely positioning them to identify food insecurity and connect individuals to vital resources. Park Nicollet Health Services combines nutrition education with SNAP referrals.

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LEAD Physician

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

For these reasons, physicians must learn about leadership skills not just as part of their general education but also as part of their continuing medical education (CME). Build Relationships Physicians must establish solid and lasting relationships with the individuals in their practice. How can a physician lead their field?

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Today's Hospitalist

APRIL 24, 2025

“Our local leadership group wanted to focus on it,” says Dr. Baskin, who serves as chief physician utilization management advisor. As for standardizing bed assignment procedures, the solution was to give that staff extensive education. ” Phyllis Maguire has been Executive Editor of Today’s Hospitalist since 2006.

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

DECEMBER 16, 2020

Our guests explain how we can incorporate race-conscious medicine in clinical settings, medical education, and biomedical/epidemiological research to responsibly recognize and address the harms of racial inequality. education, income, number of previous hospitalizations) that also lead to clinical outcomes, not only race-based stratification.

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My Green Doctor

MAY 3, 2025

That’s why our Practice Management program includes a guided, meeting-by-meeting path for helping clinics transition to renewable energy and cut utility bills—without overwhelming staff or adding to your to-do list. Looking for a tailored approach? My personal advocacy project is the problem of single use eyedrops.

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The Motivated MD

DECEMBER 18, 2024

However, I think it is important to highlight some of the more frequent offenders to describe how this commonly affects individuals’ lives. Though this is in no way an exhaustive list, the following represents what I believe to be the most common culprits of lifestyle creep and financial pressures in individuals’ lives.

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The Motivated MD

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

The decision to rent or buy a home is the root of much anxiety in many individuals’ lives. I overhear individuals say things like ‘owning a home is the best investment you can make,’ and’ if you are renting, you are just ‘throwing your money away.’ Take the time to play around with these calculators.

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Permanente Medicine

MAY 20, 2025

These priorities include supporting the physician workforce, utilizing data and predictive interventions to improve patient outcomes, and boosting quality and affordability for patients. I know we go back quite a ways and that this is a very important topic for all of us to really to talk about and to be educated about.

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The Motivated MD

OCTOBER 3, 2024

Helene highlighted that even wealthy communities and well-financed and well-educated populations can be caught off guard and devastated. In the wake of a hurricane as devastating as Helene, tens of thousands of individuals are likely filing claims, surely totaling billions of dollars. Stay motivated! The Motivated M.D.

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GeriPal

MAY 5, 2022

We talk with Nick and Meg about: Why hearing loss is important not just in geriatrics but also for those caring for seriously ill individuals. Communication techniques we can use when talking to individuals with hearing loss. Association of Sensory and Cognitive Impairment With Healthcare Utilization and Cost in Older Adults.

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FDA Law Blog

JANUARY 26, 2022

In defending the complete broadcast, Lilly called out similar elements from each of the individual components as demonstrating its intent to have all three viewed sequentially. And in this case the presentation would be compliant whether each component was shown individually, or, when combining all three sequentially.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 22, 2025

Hispanic), 64% (95% CI, 59-69%) reported social risks in 1 or more domains, including food insecurity (22%), financial hardship (28%), housing instability (14%), transportation needs (9%), education and employment (9%), and discrimination (41%). 10.2]) and cost-related medication non-adherence (OR, 11.8 [2.7-52.1]),

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The Motivated MD

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

For the better half of 2024, I have been periodically writing posts that are individual articles that double as potential chapters to a future book. Before we discuss each individual savings account, let us first highlight exactly what it means to ‘automate’ your savings. Saving money is simple but not easy.

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

MAY 2, 2022

Dr. Valtis is a 4th year Med-Peds Resident at Brigham & Women’s Hospital and Boston Children’s Hospital, and his research focuses on race and the utilization of security responses in the inpatient hospital setting. Race and the Utilization of Security Responses in a Hospital Setting. Orlando, FL.

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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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The Clinical Problem Solvers

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Between 2007 – 2019, Black individuals experienced a higher death rate for opioid overdose deaths than any other racial or ethnic group. These narratives have vilified individuals who would benefit from comprehensive, person-centered substance use treatment, rather than incarceration and other adverse harms.

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Alabama Academy of Family Physicians

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

The bill also requires the Alabama Statewide Area Health Education Center Program Office to administer and verify the eligibility of physicians claiming the credit and mandates an evaluation of the program’s success during the 2030 fiscal year.

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

APRIL 5, 2022

Push back against individual narratives that blame individuals for systemic injustice. Calac, Victor A. If we are not part of the solution, we are complicit in structural injustice. Dr. Kushel and Mr. Watts remind healthcare providers to speak out about the structural causes of homelessness. Push back against dehumanizing language.

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The Physicians Foundation

MAY 20, 2025

At a time when chronic diseases remain the number one cause of illness, disability and death nationwide, it is critical for physicians to have the tools needed to support the collective health of individuals across the United States. As the U.S.

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FDA Law Blog

OCTOBER 28, 2021

The 18 methods of contraception listed in the guidelines are derived from a Birth Control Guide (Guide) that the FDA developed in the late 1990s to provide education around relative rates of efficacy across types of contraceptives. 300gg-13(a)(4).

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Setting: 2 primary care clinics, 2 school-based clinics, and 2 school health education classrooms in the Minneapolis/St. Population Studied: 8 organizational leads (clinicians, clinic staff, and educators). Outcome Measures: Facilitators and barriers to dissemination (qualitative), website reach and utilization metrics (i.e.,

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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

Social workers augment a team’s ability to provide whole-person care, often aiding to identify and meaningfully address the wide variety of challenges and unmet needs faced by individuals and families facing serious illness. It’s used a lot in the education world. And that’s something we have to just think about.

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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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GeriPal

JANUARY 20, 2023

Then there’s workforce, so thinking about the education and training of the workforce and how do we enhance that. As well as, there are significant issues across the workforce when thinking about education and training, for example, that need to be addressed. Jasmine: Technology. Tell me about that. So it’s give and take.

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GeriPal

APRIL 10, 2025

It was really at the level of the ED across 33 EDs in random order, and then tried to see if we could make a difference in healthcare utilization, primarily the primary outcome was admission to the hospital, acute care admission. The one thing that we know is that education alone will not actually deliver behavior change. That is safe.

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GeriPal

MAY 15, 2025

We did another nudging trial where the deep default was for default palliative care consultations for high risk patients, and it significantly increased individuals who were receiving palliative care. We tested two different nudges individually and then we combined them. And especially that requires a lot of education.

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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. We randomized individual patients either to the SKY framework or to usual care.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

And so we worked closely with a community advisory group who, through focus groups, told us how it was that black and white individuals with serious illness had wanted to be treated. The black individuals wanted to have a separate one from the white individuals. And resource utilization was very low in all the groups.

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GeriPal

APRIL 14, 2022

Janet: And so we have this whole spectrum of buprenorphine at these different doses that we should be able to utilize but people can feel limited just because of this X waiver policy to not fully access and be able to offer all of the medications. And you don’t have to be limited by these arbitrary policies anymore.

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GeriPal

JUNE 5, 2025

So, how can we improve palliative care for individuals in nursing homes? Eric 17:06 Think like almost 50% of nursing home decedents utilize hospice, and that number has grown over the last two decades. Like, yeah, utilization of hospice has increased pretty well. Some will have stronger relationships with hospice.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Background: The University of Maryland School of Medicine (UMSOM) combats COVID-19 misinformation in youth to reduce vaccine hesitancy through targeted outreach and education. Community members were hired as outreach workers (COW) from these communities to provide outreach, education, and connections to vaccination resources.

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GeriPal

MARCH 7, 2024

It sets space between us and the individuals we’re trying to take care of. I think that consistency of what is the expectation of our roles is crucial in a lot of ways, but that role is determined by the individuals we’re serving. I think the market and others will determine those individuals and who they work with.

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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. Eric: I think about it as the first one to address individuals’ curative therapy. I’m just stunned even writing that! We’ve come so far as a field. Eric: Okay.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 19, 2024

Here are a couple of articles if you want to do a deeper dive: Dani and colleagues article on Psychiatry and Palliative Care: Growing the Interface Through Education. So we’re going to be talking about palliative care for individuals with mental illness. And so why are we not educating psychiatrists and palliative care.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

So, basically, with a stepped care model, the goal is to tailor care delivery to the patient’s needs while at the same time utilizing less clinician resources. There was a difference, though, in hospice utilization, right? Can someone describe for me what a stepped model is? Jennifer 04:25 I can take that on. That is correct.

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