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Register Now for the AAFP 2024 Fall Forum CME Event

Alabama Academy of Family Physicians

The Alabama Academy of Family Physicians invites medical professionals in the state to register now for the 2024 Fall Forum scheduled for the weekend of Saturday, December 14, and Sunday, December 15. The event focuses on the latest clinical practices, innovations in healthcare, and topics trending in the field of family medicine.

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Breaking: Healthcare Workers Experiencing Hope as Side Effect of COVID-19 Vaccine

GomerBlog

In a joint statement today, the CDC and FDA wanted to remind vaccinated healthcare workers should they develop a sudden onset of positivity or an acute facial defect known as a smile to seek medical attention immediately. “These symptoms have ceased to exist since the start of the coronavirus pandemic, so it is indeed alarming.

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

GeriPal

Meg is a researcher and professor of Gerontological Nursing and a Geriatric Nurse Practitioner in the School of Nursing at UCSF. And there’s multiple survival analyses looking at incident dementia, and hearing loss is strong, independently associated with the time to event dementia.

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MAFP Supports Two Student Programs This Summer!

Maine Academy of Family Physicians

6-week Medical Student Externship - Medical Student Externship Report – Molly Mann, MS2 2023 July – August "My externship experience consisted of shadowing Dr. Der Simonian at the Falmouth Family Medicine office and at the Maine Medical Center Mother Baby Unit. Der Simonian and her patients.

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CDC Proposes Updating Practice Guideline for Prescribing Opioids, Warning Against Continued Misapplication

FDA Law

It is intended for clinicians (primary care, physicians, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, and oral health practitioners) who provide pain care to outpatients aged 18 years or older with acute pain (lasting less than a month), subacute pain (lasting 1-3 months) or chronic pain (lasting more than 3 months) in outpatient settings.

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How State and Local Agencies on Aging Help Older Adults: Susan DeMarois, Greg Olsen, and Lindsey Yourman

GeriPal

Not just with our aging and independent services, but also with our behavioral health services, with our public health services, with our medical care services, to really have everyone see older people as part of their work. 60% of all medical costs have nothing to do with your health diagnosis. And then, the system responds in turn.

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Jumpstarting Goals of Care Convos: Erin Kross, Bob Lee, and Ruth Engelberg

GeriPal

So somebody had to write something down in the medical record that talked about goals of care, and there was no template, there was no form that you filled out for this. We really said anything that’s looking at overarching goals of medical care. You just have to be talking about the overarching goals of medical care.