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Celebrating Ten Years of ECHO Ontario Chronic Pain and Opioid Stewardship [Pain management]

Annals of Family Medicine

Extension for Community Healthcare Outcomes (ECHO) is a health professions education model that uses telehealth technology to bridge specialists to community clinicians to disseminate best practices and foster interprofessional collaboration.

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Disaster preparedness, What we have learned from COVID 19 pandemic [COVID-19]

Annals of Family Medicine

COVID-19's impact surpasses previous pandemics, disrupting medical education by delaying clinical rotations and necessitating a rapid transition to telemedicine due to isolation and PPE shortages. We aim to highlight educational gaps for future pandemic preparedness.

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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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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.

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Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism Board Meeting Summary | Spring 2025

ABIM

Dr. McDonald spoke about ABIM’s work engaging early career physicians (those who earned initial certification within the last 10 years), including presentations and listening sessions at recent national meetings. The group discussed evolving trends in telehealth and how to capture that as a category of community practice.

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Infectious Disease Board Meeting Summary | Spring 2025

ABIM

Initial Certification and Training Data in Infectious Disease* The Infectious Disease Board also reviewed new data from the National Resident Matching Program, Board Eligibility data, outcomes for candidates requiring retraining, faculty pathway pass rates and approved Advancing Innovation in Residency Education programs in infectious disease.

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GeriPal Takeover! Nancy Lundeberg and Annie Medina-Walpole

GeriPal

So, you know, using telehealth companies to shuttle patients to neurologists who will, you know, prescribe the drug with questionable oversight. Ken 26:17 You presented that. Eric 29:27 And initially the one we presented was like, what happens to people when they come to the hospital? Ken 19:41 Amen. And it’s.

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