GeriPal

DECEMBER 8, 2022

And then we also have another Vas, many of the interviews are done by medical students or other healthcare trainees as part of their clinical rotation at the VA. You would love this because in that story that was in that patient CHR was a particular song that had meant a lot to this individual. Why did you think that?”

Patient-Centered 116

Patient-Centered Illness Healthcare IT 116

GeriPal

MARCH 13, 2025

You’re a disgruntled medical student. You’re thinking about dropping out of medical school. And so I went and I kind of reached out and found that they were doing a one week training, multidisciplinary training, which they offered me a place on as a medical student. But I want to go back in time now.

IT 105

IT Patient-Centered Families Family 105

GeriPal

DECEMBER 15, 2022

And then we also have another Vas, many of the interviews are done by medical students or other healthcare trainees as part of their clinical rotation at the VA. You would love this because in that story that was in that patient CHR was a particular song that had meant a lot to this individual. Why did you think that?”

IT 106

IT Patient-Centered Healthcare Illness 106

GeriPal

MAY 12, 2022

Raj: It was indeed very, very gradual, and the seeds were sown when I was a medical student. What she called total pain, physical, psychosocial, and spiritual, and she started addressing it. We know that this is necessary in theory, we know that health is not only absence of disease, but physical, social, and mental wellbeing.

Community 116

Community IT Relationship Healthcare 116

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

I think the first time I noticed it was, like as a medical student when you would rotate on one service with one attending and they would make decisions about how to treat a case one way. They look at the signs and symptoms, they do a physical exam, maybe some lab tests or some imaging. They’re side to side.

Patient-Centered 112

Patient-Centered Patients IT Healthcare 112

GeriPal

MARCH 3, 2022

So it’s a five component scale and it includes slow gate speed, weak and grip strength, exhaustion, unintentional weight loss, and low physical activity, which I really like thinking about those components. Lauren: Although again, still thinking about what that means for an individual older adult is really important.

Patient-Centered 96

Patient-Centered Patients IT Illness 96

GeriPal

APRIL 6, 2023

Chaplains can do an assessment of the spirituality of the individual and then they use interventions that are part of their discipline and those interventions are tailored to the individual’s spiritual and religious needs of the person that they’re caring for. They followed them during the course of their hospital stay.

IT 99

IT Patient-Centered Families Family 99

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

So one end of the spectrum is somebody who’s just a total novice, and it’s clearly very awkward and they’re not used to talking to people in a clinical encounter, like a medical student or something like that. Stop thinking the physical exam or the differential diagnose, whatever, and just be there.

Illness 102

Illness IT Patient-Centered Patients 102

GeriPal

MARCH 31, 2022

Who is a long time teacher in the joint medical program, now Emeritus. Joint medical program is between UC Berkeley and UCSF. I was a medical student there some 25 years ago or so. And that poetry has helped in the process of both psychological and even sometimes physical healing.

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IT Patients Medical Illness 70

Doctors for America

JUNE 23, 2025

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Medical Student 89

Medical Student Mental Health Healthcare Patient-Centered 89