Physicians Alliance of Connecticut

MAY 20, 2025

Relaying information between patients and providers. Effective communication skills: Medical office assistants must clearly communicate with patients, doctors, nurses, and other healthcare professionals. Certifications provide proof of your skills and help you stand out during the job search process.

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Physicians Alliance of Connecticut

APRIL 12, 2025

Bureau of Labor Statistics projects that the field will grow by 15 percent from 2023 to 2033 , which is higher than the average for roles that provide support to healthcare professionals. What Medical Assistants Do Medical assistants play a crucial role in healthcare by supporting physicians and other providers.

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GeriPal

JULY 19, 2024

Lastly, Soo Borson is a self-described primary care leaning geriatric psychiatrist, developer of the Mini-Cog, and co-leads the CDC-funded BOLD Center on Early Detection of Dementia. Alex 00:09 We are delighted to welcome S oo Borson, who is a primary care oriented geriatric psychiatrist. Who do we have with us today?

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GeriPal

AUGUST 4, 2022

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. It’s underappreciated, I think, by providers and by patients.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 23, 2025

The intervention involved mailing medication-specific brochures to patients before their primary care appointments (click here for the brochure ). We did that and we compared it to just what happens with usual care, which of course is not much. Eric 26:43 And this is in primary care, right? So we did primary care.

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GeriPal

JUNE 20, 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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Plum Health

OCTOBER 11, 2024

This guide will help you understand the different types of clinics and services they offer, so you can make an informed decision about where to seek medical care. Regular visits to a primary care clinic can make a world of difference in your overall health. Regular check-ups ensure early detection of health issues.

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GeriPal

JUNE 12, 2025

Alex 00:33 And delighted to welcome Evie K a lmar, who’s a geriatrician and palliative care doc at UCSF. Eric 00:42 So on this podcast, we’re gonna be talking about what every healthcare provider should know about radiation oncology. Evie, welcome to GeriPal. Evie 00:41 Thank you. Anish 00:54 I do.

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Doctor On Demand

APRIL 28, 2025

Most sore throats heal on their own, but severe cases may require urgent care. Learn more about which symptoms mean you should go to urgent care or the ER, as well as when to use telehealth or see a primary care doctor. Urgent care clinics provide quick diagnoses and treatments, including antibiotics if needed.

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The Motivated MD

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

In medicine, it is commonly agreed that ‘to err is human’ Most healthcare professionals would agree that humans make mistakes. ’ Though it often does not come with the attending salary, medical trainees are getting paid to perform a service, and hospitals provide retirement plans to these individuals.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Summary Transcript CME Summary Trauma is a universal experience, and our approach as health care providers to trauma should be universal as well. With that said, there is so much more that I learned from our guests for this trauma-informed care podcast. She is a guest host and she’s a palliative care social worker.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

The insight started when Carmen, an orthopedic surgeon-researcher, and Katie, a physical therapist- researcher participated in ride-alongs with EMS providers to patient’s homes. And yet, after assisting the older adult to their feet, the EMS providers would leave. I think, as providers, we don’t get to see that.

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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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Vida Family Medicine

JUNE 29, 2022

The healthcare system must provide care in a just way so that those who need care have access to it. This is not to mention the significant harms that we can expect to see shortly from unsafe self-induced abortions and from delays in care for nonviable pregnancies due to limitations placed on healthcare professionals.

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GeriPal

JULY 21, 2022

Eric: But before we jump into talking to your patients about driving retirement cessation, let’s talk about what is the role of the healthcare professional in this at all? Certainly my bias is that healthcare professionals really do have a role in this discussion. And what should we be doing as far as assessment?

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 17, 2024

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. He’s in Boston. And Matt brought today’s topic to us.

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GeriPal

JUNE 19, 2025

Knowing that the community is really underrepresented in sort of our knowledge, what we do, how we provide care that’s truly inclusive and welcoming. In fact, there’s a lot of studies that support that disclosure actually provides a lot of satisfaction for our trans individuals because then they get to be really seen.

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BMJ

MAY 10, 2022

Family physicians and family health workers, considered reliable sources of vaccine information, have a unique position where individuals in rural and urban areas can access frequently, uninterruptedly, cheaply, and easily [2]. Two hundred seventy-six of the healthcare professionals were reached (response rate: 85.4%).

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GeriPal

JUNE 15, 2023

Alex: And joining us via Zoom, we have Charlotta Lindvall, who is a palliative care physician researcher who studies the intersection of natural language processing and communication data at Dana Farber Cancer Institute, where she also works in clinical informatics. I think the AI can allow for that complexity but still provide some guidance.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

And it’s with this information from the geriatric assessment that we can really create interventions, and so that’s something that Alex and I strongly believe that we should move forward with. We have the chemo talks tool posted, so people can go there and click and immediately get the information about this.

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GeriPal

MARCH 6, 2025

What is unique about the practice of palliative care for people experiencing homelessness? We discuss the principles of harm reduction, social determinants of health, and trauma informed care. link] PEACH Good Wishes Program A program that provides meaningful gifts for unhoused individuals who are terminally ill.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 18, 2024

It is the CME activity provider’s responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABIM MOC credit. But the cancer specific databases just don’t have this information. It’s opening this stock box of, all of a sudden, now what do I do with this information?

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GeriPal

JUNE 27, 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

JUNE 5, 2025

So usually they’ll make recommendations, maybe some medication adjustments or something like that, and then the provider that’s caring for them in house will take over from there. So the palliative care service doesn’t necessarily need to provide those potentially. Eric 13:49 Right. Is that a black box?

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 26, 2023

We provide critical education. We provide critical conversations with colleagues and families to coordinate transition planning.” Lynn: Well, I was just going to say there’s such an amazing breadth of things that rehab can provide. ” So that’s something that I think a lot about.

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GeriPal

JUNE 16, 2022

For example, we once thought that the lower urinary tract was sterile, but we now know it has its own microbiome, which may even provide protection against infections. And in my medical training, becoming a primary care doctor, I realized that older adults, women and men were having a lot of these same symptoms. Chrissy: Yeah.

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GeriPal

MAY 25, 2023

And, you know, I really leaned in from my perspective as a primary care geriatrician to hearing from what my patients and their family caregivers are asking me for and asking me about, and they’re asking me about how they can prepare. We don’t push any information at them. Hillary or Sarah. Thoughts on that.

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GeriPal

APRIL 4, 2024

The Cruzan ruling led to a flood of interest in Advance Directives, and eventually to the Patient Self Determination Act, which mandates provision of information about advanced directives to all hospitalized patients. Eric: And Laurie for this patient, were you the outpatient provider? AMA PRA Category 1 credit(s) ™.

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GeriPal

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Summary Transcript CME Summary Falls are very common among older adults but often go unreported or untreated by healthcare providers. Providers may feel a sense of nihilism, that there just isn’t anything they can do to decrease the risk of falling. I think providers feel that way. Anxiety and institutionalization.

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GeriPal

MARCH 7, 2024

We are delighted to welcome Jane Euler, who is lead doula and co-founder of Present for You, which is a benefit LLC company that provides doula support at the end-of-life. Alex: And we’re delighted to welcome John Loughnane who is a palliative care doctor and end-of-life doula and co-founder of Present for You. Jane: Right.

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GeriPal

JUNE 23, 2022

And that’s another huge source of data and that’s the data that generally informs the USPSTF and other guidelines. And that’s why I want women to have an informed decision. And so we did learn in that study that even… Here we were trying to take the burden off primary care doctors. Mara: Exactly.

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GeriPal

MAY 18, 2023

So the intention of the AGS Beers Criteria is to provide information primarily to clinicians, although to other audience as well, but medications that we consider to be potentially inappropriate in older adults. But it does kind of provide that caution, it kind of slows things down to make sure you’re really paying attention.

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GeriPal

JUNE 22, 2023

And that grew into a group of volunteers coming back and at least providing support groups, giving those men a place where they could talk at least. So they can be referred by their primary care doctor or to us. You can choose comfort-focused care or you can choose to continue chemotherapy. They suffered from it.

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GeriPal

APRIL 10, 2025

I cant do the primary thing Ive been trained to do: ABC, ABC, ABCs. Most emergency providers wanted to do the right thing for seriously ill patients, but they didnt have the knowledge, skills, or experience to do it. We weren’t randomizing providers or patients. The emergency physician knows it’s not new information.

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GeriPal

MARCH 24, 2022

I worry, as a ex-primary care doctor, how much time I have. So it’s an example of something that can start outside of the healthcare system and move its way in. Ideally, there’ll be a place in the chart that actually captures the name of that person and their contact information. I need structure.”

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GeriPal

JUNE 30, 2022

But they don’t really have a lot of condition-specific or procedure-specific information at all. Eric: So what do we do with the information? And I think that we do need more of that information and you’re right. We’re available, palliative care. And they don’t really have good data on it.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 17, 2023

So these folks who are taking it for the first time are going to be part of the new information that we have. And many people, many geriatricians and colleagues are going to be participating in databases where we collect information about people who are on these drugs. Sharon: Yeah, they have to understand the risks.

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