GeriPal

FEBRUARY 8, 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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IT Families Family Physicals 137

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

So I make the point, they often say, “Oh, you have this special population,” like pediatrics, where it’s 10% or something. So falls, mobility concerns, polypharmacy, comorbidities, nutrition, social support, and mental health. Do you worry about that? We actually have the majority. I like it, John.

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Patient-Centered IT Patients Clinic 129

GeriPal

JULY 11, 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.

Patient-Centered 109

Patient-Centered IT Patients Clinic 109

GeriPal

APRIL 6, 2023

These hick pick codes are available to any chaplain in a healthcare system. And the problem with that, one of those codes is about spiritual assessment, so for me, in a system that has hundreds of hospitals that are now trying to come together as one, we’re the result of a merger of two major health systems.

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IT Patient-Centered Families Family 99

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Kate and Ashwin talked about their research on the prevalence of lifetime trauma and its association with physical and psychosocial health among adults at the end of life. And we often do, as healthcare providers, care for people who are going through traumatic events, through just being sick in the hospital or a home or dying at home.

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IT Patient-Centered Individual Screening 66

GeriPal

DECEMBER 7, 2023

I actually wonder though, since we’re on a GeriPal broadcast, I think that people are under emphasizing the special risk of older people. So our elders who are people of color, people who live in places that are already challenged by poor air quality and those things and access to healthcare, they also have greater risks.

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Healthcare IT Education Community 129

GeriPal

AUGUST 15, 2024

And in our reporting center, we tracked physical assaults, verbal harassment. And also physical assault from serious injuries to just kind of hearing about friends who have died from this incident. And that has an impact, as we’ve shown in the papers, on your social health, your mental health and physical health.

Mental Health 116

Mental Health Community IT Screening 116

GeriPal

JULY 7, 2022

Haider: Yeah, this is a special song. Like yourself, when I was a resident, and pain has been shaped in our mind as being a purely physical sensation, especially on the clinical side, where this idea that pain is complex and that pain is as much an emotion as much as physical sensation is not really something we are trained to do.

Patient-Centered 105

Patient-Centered Physicals IT Patients 105

GeriPal

APRIL 20, 2023

Alex: But the longer title’s Ethno-Geriatrics and Special Populations. When they think about homelessness, their mind goes to what I would call the individual risk factors, things like having a substance use disability or mental health disability. Margot: Yes. Those are structural factors.

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Mental Health IT Community Individual 123

GeriPal

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Too many people do because it’s really hard to keep their loved ones at home for the cost, the enormous financial, mental and physical strain for the family. Eric: And looking back at that time, what do you think the healthcare system could have done to help with that? But in the healthcare system, they are not the same.

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Patient-Centered IT Families Family 125

Pamela Wible MD

JUNE 19, 2025

Read transcript and/or download & listen to MP3 below:  Physician burnout—symptom of a broken system “Burnout” has become one of the most talked-about issues in healthcare—but behind the buzzword lies a deeper crisis. And now what we have all been waiting for, our keynote speaker on today’s theme of mental health.

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Clinic Nurse Practitioner IT Medical 246

Doctors for America

JUNE 23, 2025

As a nonpartisan organization of thousands of physicians and medical trainees committed to health justice, we bear witness to the trauma these policies inflict on our patients, our communities, and the healthcare system as a whole. Bar ICE presence in hospitals, clinics, and health centers without a judicial warrant.

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Medical Student Mental Health Healthcare Patient-Centered 86