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Electronic Health Record Use and Patient-Centredness [Education and training]

Annals of Family Medicine

Context: Large-scale electronic health record (EHR) programs have reported a number of issues to their implementation in primary care including physician patient-centredness and clinical performance. Overall, this was not a statistically significant correlation.

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Implementing quality improvement into practice: Exploring the work to develop and implement a QI project in primary care [Dissemination and implementation research]

Annals of Family Medicine

Physicians receive little QI training in their formal education and require professional development opportunities to learn necessary QI training and skills.

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Episode 56 – Human Dx unknown with Reza & Northwestern’s residents – Drs. Peigh & McGee – loss of consciousness

The Clinical Problem Solvers

[link] Episode description Dr. David Kudlowitz presents a Human Dx case to Reza and Northwestern’s Drs. After residency she plans to pursue training in cardiology, and takes particular interest in transcatheter interventions and medical education. He works as a hospitalist and primary care physician.

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Book Review: Has Medicine Lost Its Mind? by Dr. Robert C. Smith

Common Sense Family Doctor

Smith, a general internist and professor of medicine and psychiatry at Michigan State University, explains why our medical system consistently prioritizes physical over emotional health and presents some ambitious proposals for how to rectify this harmful disparity. This relatively slim volume is divided into three parts.

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Supporting Healthy Aging With Tailored Obesity Management Strategies

Physician's Weekly

If low bone density is present, it’s often treated alongside a weight loss program. The second piece is getting folks to be successful at restricting their calories, which works well when nutrition education and behavioral counseling strategies are combined—and even better when provided in a group setting.

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Episode 293 – Antiracism in Medicine Series – Episode 22 – Live from SGIM 2023: Best of Antiracism Research at the Society of General Internal Medicine’s 2023 Annual Meeting

The Clinical Problem Solvers

Calac June 22, 2023 Summary : This episode highlights a selection of antiracism research presentations at a live recording of the podcast at the 2023 SGIM Annual Meeting. Clinically, she is boarded in both Internal Medicine and Addiction Medicine and practices as a primary care physician and teaching hospitalist.

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Digital Skin Care: Top 8 Dermatology Apps

The Medical Futurist

Self-surveillance solutions, disease guides, educational apps as well as telehealth platforms appeared naturally in dermatology in the past decade. 2) iDoc24 The award-winning dermatology service is present in more than 160 countries and is available in 7 languages. It’s a jackpot software for eczema troubles.

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