Physicians Alliance of Connecticut

MARCH 5, 2025

After completing medical school, they must complete a three-year residency in internal medicine. Our experienced endocrinologist, Dr. James Case, is dedicated to providing individualized care to patients living with a wide range of endocrine conditions, including diabetes, osteoporosis, and thyroid disease.

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ABIM

APRIL 24, 2025

Thousands of subspecialists are also using the LKA to reinstate their lapsed certifications in internal medicine. ABIM does not contact individual programs with a lower pass rate to initiate changes to the program. Representatives from the American College of Rheumatology (ACR) joined for a portion of the meeting*.

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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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GeriPal

JUNE 20, 2024

MOC points per podcast in the American Board of Internal Medicine’s (ABIM) Maintenance of Certification (MOC) program. Alex 00:30 And we’re delighted to welcome Alison Huang, who’s a primary care doc and researcher and professor of medicine, urology, and epi-biostats at UCSF in the division of General Internal Medicine.

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Aspiring Minority Doctor

JUNE 18, 2023

Additionally, this past week alone, a large number of former medical students who rotated with me during my intern year graduated from the shorter duration residencies in Internal Medicine, Family Medicine, etc and are now getting to do what they set out to do.

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GeriPal

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Kemi Doll , a physician-researcher and coach, has a terrific podcast I highly recommend everyone listen to, though it is targeted at women of color in academic medicine. Summary Transcript Summary Coaching is in. When I was a junior faculty, coaching wasn’t a thing. We address: What is coaching? How does it differ from therapy? Vicky: Yay.

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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

MAY 11, 2023

Should do medicine?” ” Because I loved internal medicine. Kristine, do you have a song request for Alex? Kristine: Well, I did have a song, but I was negligent at giving it to him. So, he tried to read my mind… Eric: What was your song? Alex: (singing) Eric: That was wonderful. Kristine: Yeah, yeah, yeah.

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GeriPal

JUNE 12, 2025

Anish 00:24 Thanks so much for having me. Alex 00:26 And we’re delighted to welcome Emily Martin, who is a palliative care doc at UCLA. Emily, welcome to GeriPal. Emily 00:32 It’s good to be here. Alex 00:33 And delighted to welcome Evie K a lmar, who’s a geriatrician and palliative care doc at UCSF. Evie, welcome to GeriPal.

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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. Oral Presentation at Society of General Internal Medicine 2022 Annual Meeting. Oral Presentation at Society of General Internal Medicine 2022 Annual Meeting.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Eric: So we’ve had an interesting topic today, storytelling and medicine, narrative medicine… We’ll talk about what we should call it, but before we do, Heather, I think you have a song request. Summary Transcript Summary. But wait, there’s a shiny new anti-amyloid drug, lecanemab! (No Transcript. Here we go.

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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. A representative from the American Society of Hematology (ASH) joined for a portion of the meeting*.

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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. He’s in Boston. Parag 01:06 Thank you.

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ABIM

JUNE 11, 2025

A small number of infectious disease physicians are dual-certified, meaning they maintain an additional certification—the largest number (208) in critical care medicine. 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*.

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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? Why not use the older term unbefriended?

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GeriPal

MAY 18, 2023

We’re delighted to welcome Mike Steinman, who’s a geriatrician professor of medicine at UCSF in the division of geriatrics, prior guest on this podcast. Alex: And we’re delighted to welcome Todd Semla, who is a clinical pharmacist and associate professor at the Feinberg School of Medicine at Northwestern University.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Eric and I weren’t sure what to call this podcast – storytelling and medicine? Narrative medicine? VA “gets” the importance of storytelling in medicine, without the need for reams of research to back it up. Summary Transcript Summary. It wasn’t until the end that the best term emerged – storycatching. Here we go.

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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. Turns out, in summary people who initiate dialysis have mildly longer lives, but spend more time in facilities, away from home. Well, I got.

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GeriPal

MAY 15, 2025

This specific study , published in JAMA Internal Medicine, was conducted in 17 ICUs in North Carolina. For example, putting the healthy food at the back of the grocery store is sludge; making an applicant for health insurance climb the flight of stairs to the office – weeding out those less fit – is also sludge.

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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? Do you need to be an addiction medicine trained physician to start such a clinic (no: Sach is not). What is making this hard for me?

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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. Mariah, welcome to the GeriPal Podcast. Here we go.

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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. This field is not new. In his book The Hour of our Death Philip Aries described a long evolution in western civilization of cultural attitudes towards dying.

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GeriPal

MARCH 6, 2025

link] PEACH Good Wishes Program A program that provides meaningful gifts for unhoused individuals who are terminally ill. Today we discuss: What is the best terminology? Homelessness? Marginally housed? What makes palliative care for people experiencing homelessness challenging? What makes it rewarding? those experiencing homelessness).

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GeriPal

APRIL 10, 2025

Tammie 04:51 Yeah, so I would say that 30 years we’ve been in the palliative care space, not in emergency medicine, but we’ve been advancing the science in general palliative care for over 30 years and just plugging away with it, study after study after study to build the field. They got training in Vital Talk and ELNEC.

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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. Julien: Thanks Alex, thanks Eric. It’s great to be here. Alex: (Singing).

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GeriPal

MAY 29, 2025

Summary Transcript CME Summary Have any of you watched the movie The Notebook ? At the end, one of the characters, who has dementia, experiences an episode of lucidity. When I watched it, between tears (Im a complete softie) I remember thinking, Oh no! This will give people false hope! That their loved one is in there. Andrew 00:42 Hey, everyone.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 24, 2023

And although it wasn’t a conscious decision, or connection, in my mind between entering medicine and the experience of having grown up in a family with Ellen. But once I got into medicine, I found myself attracted to the field of psychiatry. Just an extraordinary cast of individuals who were really so incredibly inspiring.

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GeriPal

APRIL 24, 2025

We discuss an article they wrote about PULET for the American Journal of Hospice and Palliative Medicine, including: What makes a PULET a PULET? And I get to sing Bon Jovis Bad Medicine, which is such a fun song! Adam 01:12 American Journal of Palliative Medicine. Key ingredients are both potentially unsafe and low evidence.

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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. Some highlights from our conversation: The role of art in humanizing the dying process. Lingsheng, welcome back to GeriPal.

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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. For a deeper dive, check out some of these other studies and resources we talked about in the podcast: The Influence of Nursing Home Culture on the Use of Feeding Tubes.

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GeriPal

MARCH 31, 2022

Summary Transcript Summary. In her essay “ Why Read a Poem in a Time Like This? ”, Marilyn McEntyre writes: All of us need it. We need it because good poems do something prose can’t do. They invite and enable us to notice the precarious fissures in what we think is solid ground. I think it’s titled Patient Poets Illness. Eric: Thank you Guy.

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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. Another interpretation is that clinicians avoided telling the parents prognosis in order to bolster their ratings of trust and communication quality.

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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. MOC points per podcast in the American Board of Internal Medicine’s (ABIM) Maintenance of Certification (MOC) program. Who do we have with us on this podcast?

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GeriPal

JULY 6, 2023

Summary Transcript Summary You may have heard of Area Agencies on Aging, but do you really know what they do or how they do it? What about State Departments of Aging or state master plans for aging? Do you know how these agencies fit in with programs like Meals-on-Wheels or other nutritional support programs? Susan: It is my anthem.

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GeriPal

JULY 25, 2024

MOC points per podcast in the American Board of Internal Medicine’s (ABIM) Maintenance of Certification (MOC) program. MOC Successful completion of this CME activity, which includes participation in the evaluation component, enables the participant to earn up to 0.75 ABIM MOC credit will be offered to subscribers in November, 2024.

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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. Jennifer, welcome to the GeriPal Podcast. Jasmine, is it you?

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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. On today’s podcast we talk with Malaz Boustani of Indiana University, as well as Diane Ty, the senior director of the Milken Institute Center for the Future of Aging, about the GUIDE model.

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