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Maryland's Primary Care Program: incremental progress or breakthrough?

The Health Policy Exchange

MDPCP practices must implement "data-driven, risk-stratified care management," integrate behavioral health services, screen patients for social needs, convene a patient advisory council, and use health information technology for continuous quality improvement.

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Didn’t Match into Residency.What are Some of my Options?

Aspiring Minority Doctor

Also, when you do re-apply for a residency position, you will be considered a graduating medical student senior which is useful for those residency programs that automatically screen out graduates. I heavily explored my options and decided urgent care would be the best fit for me. Urgent care work definitely isn’t for everyone though.

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Pearls profiles: Get to know Neil Baum, MD

Physician's Practice

Physicians Practice Pearls Profiles is a dynamic new feature designed to bring our trusted columnists off the page and onto your screen. Reynolds Feature Video Introducing Neil Baum, MD, Professor of Clinical Urology at Tulane Medical School in New Orleans, Louisiana, and the author of multiple books.

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Hearing Loss in Geriatrics and Palliative Care: A Podcast with Nick Reed and Meg Wallhagen

GeriPal

Screening for addressing hearing loss should be an integral part of what we do in geriatrics and palliative care, but it often is either a passing thought or completely ignored. How to screen for hearing loss. On today’s podcast, we talk to Nick Reed and Meg Wallhagen about hearing loss in geriatrics and palliative care.

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Podcast: AI, innovation, and value-based care in medicine

Permanente Medicine

They’re due for cervical cancer screening, that they get that if they are due for a lab test, they get that. Our patients stay with us for just a really long time and longer than any other health insurance. The reception does the same thing, the medical assistant does the same thing. By the way.

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Psychedelics – reasons for caution: Stacy Fischer, Brian Anderson, Theora Cimino

GeriPal

Psilocybin, the most commonly used psychedelic, increases heart rate and blood pressure, which may potentially lead to cardiovascular events. Stacy: We’re using anxiety, baseline anxiety, as our screening. Alex: So that’s not our prototypical screening ESAS question. Most participants are White and well-resourced.

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Stories We Tell Each Other to Heal: Ricky Leiter, Alexis Drutchas, & Emily Silverman

GeriPal

It was like kind of a co op with this common space that different groups could rent for events and meetings and things like that. We have recently, for our larger events, and even not as large events, we have people send us their stories. It was all covered by my mom’s insurance. And that works really well.

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