GeriPal

AUGUST 4, 2022

A year ago we did our first “Deprescribing Super Special”. Next up, we chat with Liz Bayliss about her JAMA IM article that studied whether increasing awareness about deprescribing prior to primary care visits can reduce the use of potentially inappropriate long-term medications for individuals with cognitive impairment.

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Physicians Alliance of Connecticut

APRIL 12, 2025

They may support primary care physicians, specialist physicians, or multi-specialty groups. In Connecticut, you could work as a: Clinical medical assistant: Clinical medical assistants focus on direct patient care activities, including interviewing patients and helping physicians with procedures. According to the U.S.

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Physicians Alliance of Connecticut

MAY 20, 2025

Education and Certification Requirements The typical path to becoming a medical office assistant involves getting your high school diploma (or GED) and then completing a certificate/diploma program. Technical skills: Being comfortable with technology helps you learn to navigate electronic health records (EHRs).

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Physicians Alliance of Connecticut

MAY 15, 2025

PACT provides continuing education opportunities to help employees learn new skills and stay up-to-date in their fields. When you join the PACT team, you’ll receive a variety of competitive benefits to promote good health: Medical care benefits: Health insurance helps you pay for the care you need, from doctor visits to hospital stays.

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Minnesota Academy of Family Physicians

MARCH 27, 2025

SENATE EDUCATION POLICY COMMITTEE S.F. 1354 ( Senator Boldon ): On Wednesday, March 19, 2025, the Senate Education Policy Committee heard S.F. This will trigger a special election in District 6. The post MN Legislative Session 2025: Updates on Health Care Bills appeared first on MAFP.

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GeriPal

MAY 11, 2023

It’s just another example of, I think, that there’s a little extra special sauce there in the Beeson program. Certainly education, quality of education is extremely important. Some of them, like education, definitely social determinants of health. That’s really falling apart. So, that’s one thing.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Primary care practices are often the first location a patient seeks treatment for substance use disorder (SUD). This intervention used a primary care addiction consultation service model including education, an addiction medicine consultant, and practice facilitation to increase capacity for opioid use disorder (OUD) treatment.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 19, 2025

That means many older adults will be relying on other primary care physicians, who already can’t keep up with demand , and nurse practitioners, whose ranks are booming. Their growth has bolstered primary care, and, like doctors, they can specialize in particular branches of medicine.

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Hitchcock Family Medicine

MAY 31, 2022

have 19% lower odds of prematurely dying if they have a primary care provider compared to those who only seek medical specialists for their care. For internists, their education consists of specialized medical care which is not the focus of the education of family doctors.

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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.’ According to the latest Medscape Physician Compensation Report for 2024 , the average physician salary was approximately $363,000 ($277,000 for primary care and $394,000 for specialists).

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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

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Today we talk with DorAnne Donesky, Michelle Milic, Naomi Saks, & Cara Wallace about the notion that we should revolutionize our education programs, training programs, teams, incentive structures, and practice to be intentionally interprofessional in all phases. In other words, in addition to being a specialist (e.g. Alex 22:05 Yeah.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 17, 2024

Because I think we have someone special, a guest host. Alex 00:12 We have a guest host who has requested this episode, Matt Shuster, who’s a geriatrician and palliative care doc. And also I was in the HVMA primary care program. So kind of from a primary care point of view, the guys are doing okay.

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GeriPal

JUNE 5, 2025

Despite these substantial needs, specialized palliative care beyond hospice is rare in nursing homes. Furthermore, only about half of nursing home residents nearing the end of life receive hospice care. So, how can we improve palliative care for individuals in nursing homes? What do we know about. Go ahead, Alex.

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GeriPal

APRIL 4, 2024

Arguing for the state of Missouri against the Cruzan’s was Ken Starr, who would later be assigned the role of special prosecutor in the investigation of the Clintons (Whitewater, Lewensky, etc). And it gives us the opportunity because we have more time in palliative care to focus on those things. He was the special prosecutor.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

So I make the point, they often say, “Oh, you have this special population,” like pediatrics, where it’s 10% or something. 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.

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GeriPal

APRIL 10, 2025

Yael Shenkers negative study of primary palliative care for cancer , Randy Curtiss negative study of a Vital Talk-ish intervention , Lieve Van den Blocks negative study of primary PC in nursing homes. Should we give up on primary palliative care? Whats next for primary palliative care interventions in the ED?

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GeriPal

AUGUST 11, 2022

And so my first introduction to the field came with my first job in 1982, when I went to the Cambridge Hospital to do primary care and internal medicine. Brian: I guess I’m thinking about hearing all this as a more recent product of medical education here. Was before the Medicare hospice benefit. Susan: Great. Eric: Okay.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

So thinking about, you know, if you are in sort of a home where you’re more likely to Experience childhood abuse that may potentially limit your education trajectory and your ability to attend school. And I think as an educator it’s been really important in particular to focus on that final, that last one.

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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. Tom: Do you think they relayed that info to the primary care [inaudible 00:34:14]. Eric: Okay. Next, what should we do with this study? Why another study?

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 5, 2024

So has a special resonance for, I think, a lot of people who are Tragically H ip fans. I can remember two instances of storytelling in training or in education, I guess. And I turned to my dad and I said, I think mom needs palliative care. And she did have a primary care doctor. Alex 07:35 Can I interject here?

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

Alex 00:27 And we’re delighted to welcome for the first time, guest Bill Ander e ch, who’s a primary care internist and senior scholar in Sutter Health’s program in M edicine and Human Values, a program that he co-founded with a former UCSF faculty member, Al Johnson. That makes it really special for them and for me.

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GeriPal

MARCH 10, 2022

She’s a geriatric nurse practitioner specializing in palliative care, and assistant professor at the University of Maryland School of Nursing. Caroline: Again, just further educating on the front lines and families in particular, I think is really important as well as these policy implications. Joan: Thanks.

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GeriPal

MARCH 27, 2025

Today we are delighted to welcome Jennifer Wolff, Sydney Dy, and Danny Scerpella, who conducted a pragmatic trial of advance care planning (ACP) in primary care practices; and Jasmine Santoyo-Olsson, who wrote an accompanying commentary in JAMA Internal Medicine. Jennifer, welcome to the GeriPal Podcast. Sydney 00:41 Thank you.

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GeriPal

MAY 1, 2025

Older adults may not have received AIDS education. I mean, treatment is really best done in a chronic or continuity setting, whether it’s in a primary care setting or some other. But I think primary care clinicians, geriatricians, should be able to do at least the basic management and HIV care.

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GeriPal

JUNE 6, 2024

On today’s podcast Areej El-Jawahri, oncologist specializing in blood cancers at MGH, says that sexual health is one of the top if not the top issue among cancer survivors. Alex 00:06 We are delighted to welcome back Areej El-Jawahri, who’s an oncologist at Massachusetts General Hospital who specializes in blood cancers.

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GeriPal

APRIL 20, 2023

Alex: But the longer title’s Ethno-Geriatrics and Special Populations. You add to that employment discrimination, criminal justice discrimination, and of course educational system discrimination, and of course, we pay for our public schools based on local taxes. Margot: Yes. So they wind up paying more for lower-quality housing.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

We had, since the late seventies, a home-based primary care program. And we would provide ongoing longitudinal care to them in the home, much like the Mount Sinai Visiting Doctors programs, and other programs like that. We relied on our clinical experience as geriatricians, that home-based primary care experience.

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GeriPal

JULY 20, 2023

I’ll just add one other thing that we would ask for, and it really was in the Ryan Haight Act and that is that there was supposed to be a mechanism to get a special certificate that would allow you to prescribe through telehealth without a face-to-face that was supposed to happen before the pandemic was never implemented. Joe: Yeah.

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