Mesa Family Physician

JUNE 24, 2025

The Role of Internal Medicine in Preventive Health Care Internal medicine plays a central role in adult health, especially when it comes to prevention, diagnosis, and long-term care. Let’s explore the meaning and function of internal medicine and its importance in keeping adults healthy through all stages of life.

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PEMBlog

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

This is a blog post designed to disseminate the important work of Choosing Wisely , an initiative of the the American Board of Internal Medicine Foundation, the goal of which is the spark conversations between clinicians and patients about what tests, treatments, and procedures are needed – and which ones are not.

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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. Right, right.

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GeriPal

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

” Eric: It strikes me that there also seems to be a difference between coaching a team, like many of us are familiar with, and this individual coaching, although there may be group coaching as well. Beth: Right now, I’m actually just doing individual coaching, but we are writing a grant to start group coaching next year.

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GeriPal

MAY 11, 2023

Should do medicine?” ” Because I loved internal medicine. I’m thinking of chronic pain, for example, and individuals with chronic pain often have disturbed sleep or other conditions. I was a psychobiology major, surprise, surprise, one of the first at Yale. Should I do neuro? But something with behavior.

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

MAY 2, 2022

Individuals who believe that genetic differences explain racial differences in health outcomes are more likely to practice race-based medicine. On the other hand, those who believed that differences in social conditions explain racial differences in health outcomes were less likely to practice race-based medicine.

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GeriPal

JUNE 12, 2025

Eric 00:42 So on this podcast, we’re gonna be talking about what every healthcare provider should know about radiation oncology. There were a number of opportunities to be involved in medical oncology and doing medical oncology rotations as a medical student, as an internal medicine residential. Evie, welcome to GeriPal.

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ABIM

JUNE 11, 2025

Representatives from the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA) and the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America (SHEA) joined for a portion of the meeting*. The following is a summary of the spring meeting. Visit the ABIM Blog for reports of prior meetings. Society guests departed at this point in the meeting.

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ABIM

JUNE 24, 2025

Of note, 14,777 physicians have been ABIM Board Certified in Hematology since it was first offered in 1972, with 10,730 currently maintaining valid certification and 7,445 simultaneously maintaining certification in internal medicine. There was agreement on a broad need for safe, structured, team-based care.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 16, 2025

These individuals may become unrepresented, meaning they lack the capacity to make a specific medical decision, do not have an advance directive for that decision, and do not have a surrogate to help. How should we care for unrepresented individuals in inpatient and outpatient settings? So there’s no healthcare surrogate.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Heather Coats is hard at work establishing the evidence base for the power of capturing patient stories in healthcare settings, for those health systems that need a little more convincing. . My Life, My Story: VA’s healthcare improvements through deliberate storytelling – YouTube. Wonderful work. Every Veteran has a story.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 17, 2024

We talk about what is heart failure, particularly HFpEF, how we treat it (including the use of sodium–glucose cotransporter-2 inhibitors (SGLT2’s), and how we should apply guidelines to individual patients, especially those with multimorbidity who are taking a lot of other medications. But we’re not perfect individuals.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Tell me how your illness has impacted your relationships with others, your healthcare team, your family, friends, your beliefs, your values, your preferences. And now my program of research is around testing that person-centered narrative intervention or PCNI because you have to give them an acronym in healthcare.

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GeriPal

MARCH 6, 2025

-Alex End Well Talk [link] Resources on the PEACH Program Program Review Paper A recent publication in Longwoods Healthcare Quarterly reviewing the PEACH model. link] PEACH Good Wishes Program A program that provides meaningful gifts for unhoused individuals who are terminally ill. those experiencing homelessness).

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GeriPal

MAY 15, 2025

This specific study , published in JAMA Internal Medicine, was conducted in 17 ICUs in North Carolina. Alex 06:20 Can I what’s the healthcare equivalent to the Starbucks coffee? Inside or outside of healthcare? We tested two different nudges individually and then we combined them. Prior-auth forms?

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

The SAMHSA defines trauma as an event, series events or set of circumstances experienced by an individual as physically or emotionally harmful or life threatening, with lasting adverse effects on the individual’s functioning and mental, physical, social, emotional or spiritual. Well, being a pretty comprehensive definition.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 14, 2023

On this podcast we talk about her paper in JAMA Internal Medicine which studied three hospitals that varied in the intensity of care they provided to seriously ill patients. For example, here’s a quote from somebody at a high intensity hospital, “There’s a culture from the top of the healthcare system down.

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GeriPal

MAY 18, 2023

First is we had a podcast recently about gabapentin, and I know we’d mentioned Mike’s prior study in Annals of Internal Medicine on off-label use of gabapentin. Eric: Or another good example is like for individuals with dementia. There are some different. Where does gabapentin fall out on the Beers criteria?

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GeriPal

AUGUST 24, 2023

Just an extraordinary cast of individuals who were really so incredibly inspiring. And then the final category, the third category is what we called the dignity conserving repertoire, which really has to do with kind of the spiritual, and psychological landscape and makeup of that individual. I mean, I was very much a clinician.

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GeriPal

MARCH 3, 2022

And Lauren Ferrante has found in a study published in JAMA Internal Medicine that trajectories of disability in the year prior to ICU admission were highly predictive of disability post-ICU, on the same order of magnitude as mechanical ventilation. It was this slow build, I would say. So, that part was not surprising.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Inspired by Dani Chammass paper in Annals of Internal Medicine titled, Wishing for a no show we talk about countertransference: start by asking yourself, Why am I having difficulty? The general clinic is called the Internal Medicine Recovery Engagement Program, and our clinic is the Palliative Recovery engagement Program, or PrEP.

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GeriPal

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

And the main topic of today is a paper in Annals of Internal Medicine , Maria first author, that addressed the tradeoffs between initiating dialysis vs continued medical/supportive management. So we created these heat maps where you could see for each individual what actually happened in the days and you. And we have these.

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GeriPal

APRIL 10, 2025

It was really at the level of the ED across 33 EDs in random order, and then tried to see if we could make a difference in healthcare utilization, primarily the primary outcome was admission to the hospital, acute care admission. Do they have documents in the record like medical orders for life sustaining treatment or a healthcare proxy?

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

And so we worked closely with a community advisory group who, through focus groups, told us how it was that black and white individuals with serious illness had wanted to be treated. Like, would you include the doctors that I work with, healthcare providers where I live in Marin? So their caregivers did focus groups. Our consultation.

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GeriPal

MAY 29, 2025

So I think the examples that we’ve seen is an individual will all of a sudden start using humor in a particular way or will using wry humor and that is reminiscent of the kind of humor the person used prior to developing dementia. And Andrea, you can help me out here. And the Clin. But yeah, does that, am I reading remember that?

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GeriPal

MARCH 10, 2022

Archives of Internal Medicine 2010. One of them is Karen Steinhauser’s Annals of Internal Medicine paper on, In Search of a Good Death. Caroline: And I love how you highlight the importance of these staff biases, perhaps implicit bias that is driving some of these healthcare decisions. Rehabbed to Death.

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GeriPal

APRIL 24, 2025

Eric 06:58 It could be CPR in an individual with metastatic cancer in the icu. And that was the last time that he’d been seen by our healthcare system. MOC points per podcast in the American Board of Internal Medicines (ABIM) Maintenance of Certification (MOC) program. Laura 07:03 That could be a PULET.

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Patient-Centered IT Patients Illness 77

GeriPal

MARCH 31, 2022

And you can just think about them as this… Often in medicine these days we’re come to think of our work, for some people as a conveyor belt, just one after another. Oh, is emeritus professor at UCSF, internal medicine. I’ve thought Steve can do it. Steve had a very special ability in that. So Guy go on.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 3, 2024

You can find her illustrations online at her Twitter account, particularly those about the anti-asian hate study that we did recently and had a podcast about, as well as in annals of internal medicine. I cracked myself in my head of these individuals. She has illustrations of clinician moral distress and coping.

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GeriPal

JULY 6, 2023

I have 24,500 veterans on our caseload, 14,000 individuals with diagnosed mental health issue, 8,500 with an alcohol and substance abuse. Eric: Which is, so let’s say I am a provider, a healthcare provider taking, let’s say a nurse practitioner working in an older, a clinic that’s mainly caring for older adults.

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GeriPal

JULY 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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GeriPal

AUGUST 1, 2024

Anna Pleet is an internal medicine resident at Allegheny Health Network who has a collection of amazing YouTube videos on aging and the Mediterranean diet. Elizabeth Eckstrom is a geriatrician, professor of medicine at OHSU, and author of a new book, the Gift of Aging. AMA PRA Category 1 credit(s) ™. Great to be here.

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GeriPal

MARCH 27, 2025

Today we are delighted to welcome Jennifer Wolff, Sydney Dy, and Danny Scerpella, who conducted a pragmatic trial of advance care planning (ACP) in primary care practices; and Jasmine Santoyo-Olsson, who wrote an accompanying commentary in JAMA Internal Medicine. And is it at all individualized to the patient? Is that right?

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Malaz: One day I was in internal medicine residency and I had to take care of a patient who was admitted from a nursing home with dementia. Eric: And looking back at that time, what do you think the healthcare system could have done to help with that? As you know the healthcare system right now, we struggle.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Ill end this intro with a quote from Deb Grady in an editors commentary to our thought piece in JAMA Internal Medicine about this topic: Voice technology that creates a searchable database of patients every encounter with a health care professional? Jenny, welcome back to GeriPal. Jenny 01:27 Thanks. Good to be here.

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GeriPal

JUNE 2, 2022

So take a listen and if you want a deeper dive into some of the references we discuss on the podcast, here is a list: Medscape article on how “ COVID-19 Vaccines Work Better and for Longer Than Expected Across Populations, Including Immunocompromised Individuals”. Stat news article about variants/COVID becoming more predictable. Monica: Yes.

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