The Motivated MD

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

From the moment you start post-graduate education (internship and residency), this is seen as a physician’s first ‘real job.’ Automate Your 529 Savings The last large savings I can foresee is for your children’s education. Since these savings are so important, automated savings is another avenue to utilize.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Physical therapy had walked with him that day and noted improvement compared to previous walks, suggesting that he should be discharged to a skilled nursing facility for rehabilitation on discharge. At the end of the day, I lamented that physical, occupational, and speech therapists aren’t more tightly integrated with palliative care teams.

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PEMBlog

MAY 24, 2023

This entails utilizing the least invasive non-pharmacologic means of assisting them, before moving to physical or chemical restraints. Deaths due to physical restraint. Physical and chemical restraints. Patient that are agitated should always be treated with dignity and respect. Dtsch Arztebl Int. 2012 Jan;109(3):27-32.

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Management Patient-Centered Physicals Finance 54

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

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 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. Where are my colleagues?”

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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. It’s one of the core things that we think about palliative care is you got the physical, psychological, social and spiritual symptoms. I sound smart.

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Illness Mental Health IT Patient-Centered 101

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. I’m just stunned even writing that! We’ve come so far as a field. Eric: Okay. Next, what should we do with this study? I’m going to go to stem cell transplants.

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Consulting Patient-Centered IT Patients 115

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. We did not just rely on a physical symptom measure, which many of our colleagues are doing. It’s not just about physical symptom management.

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Patient-Centered IT Patients Hospital 119

GeriPal

JUNE 26, 2025

Wait, so one key message is that social health is linked to physical and cognitive health?!? And it was her conceptual, like incorporation of functional decline, some measure of functional decline along with a serious illness diagnosis that you’re utilizing here. And the government can do something about that?!?

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 21, 2023

This model will give participating programs a per-member-per-month payment to offer care management, care coordination, and other services such as caregiver training, disease education, and respite. I had the tenacity and education to try to figure this out. This money allow me to take care of the caregiver, educate them, support them.

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Patient-Centered IT Families Family 125

GeriPal

JULY 20, 2023

And so I’m not sure if this is true for Joe or for Brooke, but even before the pandemic in our practice here, we saw somewhere around 40 to 50% of our patients via telemedicine anyway, because we have a catchment area of patients who live very far away, many of whom have a lot of physical disability and other limitations to coming in person.

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