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Reflecting on the Success of the AAFP 2024 Annual Meeting & Scientific Symposium

Alabama Academy of Family Physicians

This year’s event was a testament to the vibrant community of family physicians, medical students, residents, and healthcare professionals dedicated to advancing family medicine in Alabama. This year’s educational program was exceptional, developed and presented by our Family Medicine Residency Programs.

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Empowerment Self-Defense Arms ED Staff Against Rising Workplace Violence

Physician's Weekly

The emergency room has become a pressure cooker, and healthcare professionals are paying the price. Created in consultation with emergency medicine professionals, the show aims to raise awareness and provide validation to frontline healthcare workers everywhere. The Warner Bros. The Warner Bros.

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Green Practice News: April 2025

My Green Doctor

It tells your office colleagues and patients that your healthcare practice or clinic is committed to forging a healthier work space and community. Earth Day is an opportunity for medical professionals to lead the conversation on how sustainability directly affects health. The healthcare sector contributes 8.5% Let’s talk!

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Goodbye NSURE, Hello ACNU! FDA Issues Long-Awaited Proposed Rule to Bring OTC Drugs with a Little Something Extra to Market

FDA Law Blog

A flurry of activity followed the 2012 meeting including several workshops organized by the Brookings Institute and the launch of a new (and apparently now abandoned) acronym by FDA: NSURE – Nonprescription Drug Safe Use Regulatory Expansion.

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Transforming the Culture of Dementia Care: Podcast with Anne Basting, Ab Desai, Susan McFadden, and Judy Long

GeriPal

Anne, you’ve been going to a lot of conferences on arts and healthcare, and I was thinking back to Ab years ago. We talk about arts in healthcare and people talk about hanging better paintings on the wall, but there’s a lot more that we could do. How about transforming care in healthcare institutions? But we have to.

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Urinary Incontinence Revisited: George Kuchel & Alison Huang

GeriPal

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. So it works.

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Improving Hospital Care for Older Adults through Acute Care for Elders (ACE Units): Kellie Flood and Stephanie Rogers

GeriPal

And then we had half day workshops to get the frontline team just really excited about being the first ACE unit in the State of Alabama. Kellie: You can’t get stuck in analysis paralysis, right? And so we had spent a year with all the senior stakeholder engagement and support and the leadership roles and things like that.

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