Maine Academy of Family Physicians

JULY 11, 2024

For the past few years, MAFP has provided financial support for this opportunity hoping to encourage young adults in communities under-represented in medicine to become physicians (and hopefully family physicians!). 16 students from Portland High School and Deering High School attended.

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Joy in Family Medicine Coaching

JANUARY 31, 2025

My favorite self-administered workshop for intentionally discovering your purpose is covered in a previous blog. TLDR at bottom* The Challenge of Staying Engaged in Medicine There’s no doubt that practicing medicine is rewarding, but it can also be exhausting. Joy is not the same thing as pleasure. Write about it.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 26, 2025

series The Pitt has drawn praise for its unflinching portrayal of the ED, including a widely discussed episode in which a patient’s family member violently assaults a nurse. The emergency room has become a pressure cooker, and healthcare professionals are paying the price. The severity of this problem has even made its way into pop culture.

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Common Sense Family Doctor

JUNE 8, 2025

In 2024, the New York City Department of Health held a series of workshops on hospital emergency responses to an improvised nuclear detonation by a nonstate terrorist actor. The world is woefully unprepared for the health consequences of the use of a single nuclear device, much less a nuclear war.

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BMJ

AUGUST 20, 2021

By Paul Amendola, Executive Director, VecnaCares Reference: Bartlett L , Avery L , Ponnappan P , et al, Insights into the design, development and implementation of a novel digital health tool for skilled birth attendants to support quality maternity care in Kenya, Family Medicine and Community Health 2021; 9: e000845.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 2, 2022

She directs UCSF MERI’s patient, family, and clinician support with classes and consultation on resiliency, well-being, and grief. Summary Transcript Summary. What would it take to transform dementia care? Judy Long, MDiv, BCC , palliative care chaplain and educator at UCSF and caregiver. Alex: We have a full house today. Judy: Thank you.

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Aspiring Minority Doctor

JUNE 1, 2022

I love my Plastic Surgery residency family! My intent this year was to at least update everyone at the end of every month, but work and life distracted me from my favorite hobby of writing. I'll try my best to catch everyone up with this post, and for the sake of time, I'll try to keep it relatively brief since I know I can get a bit wordy.

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CDOCS

JUNE 3, 2021

<p><span style="font-size:14px;">The Spear Facially Generated Treatment Planning workshop I took early in my career had a massive impact on the amount of comprehensive dentistry I can now see and diagnose and present to my patients. </span></p> <p>[image:Anterior_Case_005.jpg]<br

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FDA Law Blog

MARCH 13, 2023

To further expand patient input into product development, the FDA’s Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research (CBER) Office of Therapeutic Products or “OTP” (formerly the Office of Tissues and Advanced Therapies, or “OTAT”) is holding a free public workshop titled, Clinical Trials: The Patient Experience.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Often, the way surgeons communicate about these decisions doesn’t make things any easier for themselves or their patients. And, surgeons often spend the majority of their conversations with patients describing anatomical details and exactly how they plan to ‘fix it’ , with little discussion of what that ‘fix’ will do for a patient’s overall goals.

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Maine Academy of Family Physicians

OCTOBER 22, 2023

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.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 3, 2024

As BJ MIller writes in the foreword, “ May this book be a portal — a way for us to move beyond the unwise territory of trying to ‘do it right’ and into the transcendent terrain of noticing what we can notice, loving who we love, and letting death — like life –surprise us with its ineffable beauty. I got questions. Thank you, Alex.

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GeriPal

MARCH 16, 2023

How do you find time to write and also be doctors and academic professors? Revisions and working with editors Writing an Op Ed – how to start, what to write, where to send it TheOpEdProject as a resource for learning more We look forward to the books and op-eds our listeners will write! Welcome to the GeriPal podcast, Rosanne.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Summary Transcript CME Summary If palliative care was a drug, one question we would want to know before prescribing it is what dose we should give. Give too little – it may not work. But before we jump into that topic, Jennifer, do you have a song request for Alex? Jennifer 01:20 I do have a song request for Alex. Saw them play a couple times.

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GeriPal

JUNE 26, 2025

-Alex Smith Additional links mentioned by Tsai-Chin Cho: – Wealth shocks and mortality in the US – Change in marital status as a risk for wealth shock ** NOTE: To claim CME credit for this episode, click here ** Transcript Eric 00:11 W elcome to the GeriPal p odcast. This is Eric Widera. Alex 00:12 This is Alex Smith. Is it you, Rebecca?

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GeriPal

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

You’d imagine though that our professional expertise and experiences in helping patients and families cope with loss and grief would be helpful in managing our own personal losses. Health care professionals are human, and as humans we experience loss both in and out of work. Turns out, it’s maybe not. Eric: And why’d you pick that song?

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GeriPal

APRIL 21, 2022

Links to Redwing’s poetry workshops: Food for Thought Poetry for Resiliency. Redwing: So I grew up in a pretty intellectual family, but my brother and sister were six and 10 years older than me, and they were always feeding me literature and poetry. To let it go. . Poetry helps us grapple with our own experiences of illness.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 15, 2024

We discuss: What is considered a hate incident, how is it tracked, what do we know about changes over time The wider impact of Anti-Asian hate on older Asians, who are afraid to go out, leading to anxiety, social isolation, loneliness, decreased exercise, missed appointments and medications. Jessica, welcome back to GeriPal. So here is a little bit.

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FDA Law Blog

APRIL 20, 2025

Patients and their families and caregivers have long fought to have a seat at the table with decision-makers. Last year, FDA heard this message and established the Rare Disease Innovation Hub to create a greater teamwork approach to considering rare diseases scientific and regulatory issues. Youll kill innovation. Its incurable.

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