PEMBlog

MAY 20, 2025

Learning Objectives Demonstrate the ability to use shared decision-making strategies when discussing imaging options with families of pediatric patients presenting to the Emergency Department. There’s an education series, a lecture series, and I had the opportunity to give a talk on this very topic to those providers.

Family 101

Family Families Hospital Patient-Centered 101

PEMBlog

OCTOBER 2, 2024

Understanding dyspepsia and its clinical presentation. Both conditions can present with similar symptoms. Adolescents with GERD often present similarly to adults with heartburn and regurgitation as the primary complaints. And the presentation for GERD varies by age. Now there are some risk factors for GERD.

Diagnosis 52

Diagnosis Management IT Patient-Centered 52

GeriPal

OCTOBER 13, 2022

And they should be forced by doing research, followed by translating research into practice and continued education of a wide variety of individuals to then care for our aging population. There’s the complications associated with immune senescence, comorbidities, atypical clinical presentations.

Complication 97

Complication Patient-Centered IT Patients 97

ABIM

JUNE 24, 2025

The group discussed policy shifts and potential implications for graduate medical education and health equity. Dr. McDonald acknowledged that recent executive orders have emphasized more competition in medical and legal education accreditation, but reaffirmed ABIM’s commitment to evidence-based practice and health equity.

Board-Certified 40

Board-Certified Board-Certified Physicians Government Community 40

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 22, 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.

Mental Health 122

Mental Health Patient-Centered Illness Screening 122

PEMBlog

JANUARY 16, 2025

Well dive into the clinical presentations, including acute and chronic symptoms, the dangers of sudden sniffing death, and the specific risks associated with nitrites, hydrocarbons, and nitrous oxide. It presents as erythema and inflammation around the mouth and nose. Students should be educated about the dangers of inhalants.

Complication 52

Complication Patient-Centered Management Patients 52

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.

Patient-Centered 109

Patient-Centered IT Patients Clinic 109

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

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. ” Whether it’s referrals that need to be made, or whether they’re specific actions that the person at home needs to take, like a home safety change.

Patient-Centered 129

Patient-Centered IT Patients Clinic 129

GeriPal

MARCH 6, 2025

Just out of fellowship, Naheed built a palliative care program for homeless persons called the Palliative Education and Care for the Homeless (PEACH) Program. He’s the founder and leader of the Palliative Education and Care for the Homeless program in Toronto, Palliative care physician at St. Who, his name was Terry.

Healthcare 100

Healthcare IT Community Illness 100

GeriPal

APRIL 6, 2023

Today we have a star-studded lineup, including Lexy Torke of Indiana University, who discusses her RCT of a chaplaincy intervention for surrogates of patients in the ICU , published in JPSM and plenary presentation at AAHPM/HPNA. In addition to that long list, I was also a chaplain educator.

IT 99

IT Patient-Centered Families Family 99

GeriPal

JULY 21, 2022

And I’ve been to some presentations that use that same breaking bad news model for having these driving conversations, as are used in palliative care. Emmy: So I think shifting that a little bit is what helped me do a lot of the education that I do to therapists and physicians, just to have it on their radar. Absolutely.

IT 102

IT Family Families Diagnosis 102

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

So I get all the referrals from my great colleagues in primary care. Nate 26:42 And so if we’re going to be using that term in a new way, there’s a lot that has to go into the education and reframing of that. And I pretty much present it as. So that’s a powerful term. Eric 26:42 Yeah. Eric 26:50 Yeah.

Primary Care 95

Primary Care Diagnosis Screening IT 95

GeriPal

OCTOBER 17, 2024

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. If you have access to that, I think, is the way to go. Eric 14:10 Yeah. I don’t know.

Primary Care 113

Primary Care Patient-Centered IT Patients 113

GeriPal

OCTOBER 20, 2022

And they should be forced by doing research, followed by translating research into practice and continued education of a wide variety of individuals to then care for our aging population. There’s the complications associated with immune senescence, comorbidities, atypical clinical presentations.

Patient-Centered 52

Patient-Centered Complication IT Patients 52

GeriPal

MARCH 10, 2022

So we looked at hospital referral regions, and we looked at high- and low- intensity regions. Caroline: Again, just further educating on the front lines and families in particular, I think is really important as well as these policy implications. It’s way more complex than an educational program. This doesn’t work.”

Nurse Practitioner 60

Nurse Practitioner Hospital Family Families 60

Family Medicine Initiative

APRIL 10, 2024

Adherence to medical advice improves and unnecessary self-referrals to other doctors decrease. Each issue I addressed above would require a systematic review to present the available evidence entirely, which is not feasible for a blog post. Over time, more trust develops. Over time, communication improves.

Family Physician 130

Family Physician Family Families GP 130

GeriPal

JULY 6, 2023

It could be in housing, it could be a standalone senior center, home delivered meals, nutrition counseling and nutrition education done by registered dieticians. And that referral can be done in real time, a soft handoff. It’s really the nutrition program, which is inclusive of congregate meals. I think most states have them.

Community 89

Community Nurse Practitioner Provider IT 89

GeriPal

MARCH 27, 2025

There’s also education that goes with it, educating, like, what does that mean? Ideally the conversation would happen before, but also clinicians were able to make referrals to facilitators. Even if we found a positive effect, I think we’d have to be very tentative about how we presented the implications.

Primary Care 79

Primary Care IT Clinic Patient-Centered 79

GeriPal

JUNE 6, 2024

Areej 03:50 So at the state of the science, I was actually presenting a study that was focused on addressing sexual health concerns in transplant survivors, and I actually told the story of the state of the science for those of you who were there. And that really is what prompted me to get certified as a sexual education provider.

Illness 130

Illness IT Physicals Patients 130

PEMBlog

MAY 9, 2024

Do All Children Who Present With a Complex Febrile Seizure Need a Lumbar Puncture? Admittedly, 25 percent of children with meningitis will have seizures at or before the initial presentation, but almost all of these kids will also have other signs and symptoms of meningitis, like altered consciousness, nuclear rigidity, a petechial rash.

Illness 59

Illness Vaccination Family Families 59