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Exploring Influences on Specialty Aspirations [Education and training]

Annals of Family Medicine

Context The number of physicians in primary care is declining, with fewer medical students pursuing the field. Study Design This IRB-approved cross-sectional study utilizes survey data from four classes of medical students attending a medical school in Dallas, TX at the beginning of their education.

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Green Practice News: May 2025

My Green Doctor

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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Social Workers as Leaders on Palliative Care Teams: A Podcast with Barbara Jones

GeriPal

And we’ll tell you the scope of practice, and this is top of license, and this is how you can best utilize a social worker and, no, actually that skillset belongs over here.” It’s a first Department of Health Social Work in a medical school in the country. It’s used a lot in the education world.

IT 102
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Buprenorphine Use in Serious Illness: A Podcast with Katie Fitzgerald Jones, Zachary Sager and Janet Ho

GeriPal

Zachary: I mean, I did my med school and residency training in Louisville, Kentucky, and I had a second year med student lecture from Joe Rotella who was, I think the chief medical officer at Hospices at the time. towards addiction, towards people who use drugs and then even towards the medications that we can use to treat this right.

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

GeriPal

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. Where are my colleagues?”

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