Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Some participants described being "sheltered" from the realities of administrative burden during medical school and residency, leaving them unprepared to manage multiple administrative tasks. physician assistants, nurse practitioners) to help "de-clutter the inbox" and manage referrals.

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GomerBlog

JANUARY 23, 2021

Las Vegas, NV – With COVID still raging across the country, medical professionals of all walks have been looking for ways to burn off some steam. Chiropractic: There is zero evidence I provide any benefit, but I’ll give you the best placebo you can imagine! ENT: Like the Weber test, I lateral one toward bad conduct!

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Barton Associates

JUNE 2, 2025

Traveling across state lines to provide critical healthcare services to patients in need is the bread and butter of any locum tenens provider. Not sure how the PA licensure compact will affect you? Read on to learn more about its provisions, history, and how other similar programs have fared. What is the PA Licensure Compact?

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The Physicians Foundation

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

Diminishing Workforce: Primary care clinician shortages worsen access to care The number of primary care clinicians, including physicians, nurse practitioners (NPs), and physician assistants (PAs), decreased from 105.7 Key findings include: 1. health spending, with spending on Medicare falling to 3.4% and Medicaid to 4.3%.

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Plum Health

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

Life happens fast, and sometimes, so do medical issues. Understanding Its Role in Healthcare Urgent care clinics are designed to handle non-life-threatening situations that still require timely medical attention. After an evaluation, we were able to prescribe the right medication and suggest follow-up care with her gynecologist.

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Barton Associates

MAY 15, 2025

One of the best ways to get yourself out of a slump and put some more excitement into your life is to travel—and if you’re a medical professional, taking a locum tenens position offers exactly that. We’ve examined our job listings and found 5 states seeking locum tenens providers in summer 2025.

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FDA Law Blog

APRIL 6, 2025

For nearly two decades, Dr. Lowy provided leadership across a range of important therapeutic areas, including general endocrinology, pain/opioids, cardiology, neurology, and psychiatry. Before her legal career, Julie worked as a nurse practitioner specializing in neurosurgery and infectious diseases.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 12, 2023

Alex: And we’re delighted to welcome back to the GeriPal Podcast, Stephanie Rogers, who’s a geriatrician and medical director of UCSF’s, age-friendly health systems. Which patients are eligible to go to an ACE unit? What are the benefits of an ACE unit? If ACE units are so great, why are they not so common? . Alex: Yeah.

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GeriPal

APRIL 27, 2023

The company has expanded its palliative care services through partnerships with hospitals and other managed care providers, according to AccentCare CEO Stephan Rodgers. Palliative Care the Next Generation: How the Service May Grow and Evolve AccentCare , a portfolio company of private equity firm Advent International, is another example.

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GeriPal

JUNE 8, 2023

When I’m on nursing home call, the most common page I receive is for a blood sugar value. When I’m on palliative care consults and attending in our hospice unit we have to counsel patients about deprescribing and de-intensifying diabetes medications. What are the risks and rewards of new classes of medications? Happy to be here.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 19, 2025

Pregnant with her second child, she schleps a backpack instead of a traditional black bag to carry a laptop and essential medical supplies — stethoscope, blood pressure cuff, and pulse oximeter. ” Nurse practitioners are having those conversations more and more as their patient base trends older. .

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GeriPal

MAY 5, 2022

Meg is a researcher and professor of Gerontological Nursing and a Geriatric Nurse Practitioner in the School of Nursing at UCSF. COVID-19, masks, and hearing difficulty: Perspectives of healthcare providers. Think about the last time you attended a talk on communication skills or goals of care discussions.

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Mesa Family Physician

MARCH 13, 2025

In today’s fast-paced world, it’s easy to postpone medical appointments until something feels wrong. Regular visits to your primary care physician at Mesa Family Physicians provide opportunities for early detection of potential health issues before they become serious problems.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Alex 00:30 And we are also delighted to welcome Eloise Theisen, who’s a palliative care nurse practitioner at Stanford and CEO and co- c ounder of Radical Health Clinician Network, which helps patients use cannabis to treat chronic and age related illness. Summary Transcript CME Summary Cannabis is complicated. Eric 01:34 Yeah.

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Pamela Wible MD

MAY 22, 2025

Whether you’re suffering from PHP entrapment, DEA audits, or the stress of building your own business, we provide support, strategies, and connection to help you live your dreams. Many physicians facing sensitive challenges such as board investigations, PHP enrollment, or medical errors prefer to remain anonymous. We can help. (90

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GeriPal

JANUARY 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

MARCH 24, 2023

She’s a hospice and palliative care nurse practitioner and Assistant Professor in the School of Nursing at UCSF. We also have Joe Shega, who is a hospice physician, and he is a Chief Medical Officer and Vice President at VITAS Healthcare. Welcome back to GeriPal, Lauren. Lauren: Thanks for having me. Is it you, Ira?

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Alex: Today we are delighted to welcome Heather Coats, who’s a palliative care nurse practitioner and scientist and Director of Research at the Hospice and Palliative Nurses Association, or HPNA, an Assistant Professor at the University of Colorado and Schutz College of Nursing. Summary Transcript Summary.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 30, 2025

Alex 01:32 For us, answering that question today, we have Joe Greer, who’s a psychologist and associate professor of psychology at MGH and Harvard Medical School. Summary Transcript CME Summary It is a battle royale on this weeks GeriPal podcast. But watch out! Travel time can leave this champ vulnerable to fatigue and no-shows.

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ABIM

JUNE 24, 2025

The group discussed policy shifts and potential implications for graduate medical education and health equity. Dr. McDonald acknowledged that recent executive orders have emphasized more competition in medical and legal education accreditation, but reaffirmed ABIM’s commitment to evidence-based practice and health equity.

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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. All right, and finally we have Yael Zweig, who is a geriatric nurse practitioner at NYU. Yael, welcome to GeriPal.

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GeriPal

APRIL 14, 2022

Our experts include Katie Fitzgerald Jones (palliative nurse practitioner and doctoral student at Boston College), Zachary Sager (palliative care physician at the Boston VA and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute), and Janet Ho (physician at UCSF in addiction medicine and palliative care). But does this drug really live up to the hype?

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GeriPal

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Alex: Today we’re delighted to welcome Jerry Gurwitz, who is a geriatrician and professor of medicine at the UMass Chan Medical School. I’ve seen this question come up a lot since finishing fellowship nearly two decades ago. Eric: And Alex, who do we have with us today? Jerry, welcome to GeriPal. Jerry: Great to be here.

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FDA Law Blog

MARCH 17, 2022

We believe the proposed 2022 guideline provides much needed clarification of CDC’s recommendations for both practitioners and regulators. As CDC notes in the 2022 proposed guideline, the 2016 guideline provided twelve recommendations for primary care clinicians who prescribe opioids for chronic pain in outpatient settings.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Summary Transcript Summary Medical communication is tough, although fundamentally at its most basic unit of delivery, it includes really only three steps. First, a clinician’s thoughts must be encoded into words, then transmitted often via sounds, and finally decoded back to thoughts by a patient or family member. Simple, right? Eric: Yeah?

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GeriPal

JUNE 5, 2025

And so as you think about the conditions that mean that you need care and support in a nursing home, it’s easy to see why many of us feel that palliative care, there are a lot of palliative care needs of nursing home residents just because of the nature of the conditions and reasons that got you there. Alex 02:09 Well, oops.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 18, 2024

Lastly, we discuss Katie’s paper on substance use disorder in an aging population and how one can incorporate the 5 Ms (ie, matters most, medications, mind, mobility, and multicomplexity) into a framework for age-friendly care for older adults with substance use disorder. AMA PRA Category 1 credit(s) ™. Katie, welcome back to GeriPal.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Alex: Today we are delighted to welcome Heather Coats, who’s a palliative care nurse practitioner and scientist and Director of Research at the Hospice and Palliative Nurses Association, or HPNA, an Assistant Professor at the University of Colorado and Schutz College of Nursing. Summary Transcript Summary.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 20, 2023

She was a member of the committee that wrote the National Academy’s report that we’re going to be talking about today on Improving Nursing Home Quality. We’re going to be talking about improving nursing home quality. I know you’ve been a strong advocate for nursing home patients particularly in California.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Alex 00:27 And we’re delighted to welcome S a ch Kale, who is a palliative care doc at the Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center. But my medical training kicked in. Do you need to be an addiction medicine trained physician to start such a clinic (no: Sach is not). See Sachs write up about setting up this clinic in JPSM.

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Maine Academy of Family Physicians

OCTOBER 22, 2023

6-week Medical Student Externship - Medical Student Externship Report – Molly Mann, MS2 2023 July – August "My externship experience consisted of shadowing Dr. Der Simonian at the Falmouth Family Medicine office and at the Maine Medical Center Mother Baby Unit. Der Simonian and her patients.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 11, 2024

Summary Transcript Summary Four percent of deaths in Canada are due to Medical Assistance in Dying (MAID). It is the CME activity provider’s responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABIM MOC credit. What’s up with Medical aid in dying in Canada? Four percent.

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FDA Law Blog

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Payers, health systems, and state medical boards should not use the guideline to set rigid standards or performance incentives related to opioid dosage or opioid therapy duration. By Larry K. Dowell D, Ragan KR, Jones CM, Baldwin GT, Chou R., CDC Clinical Practice Guideline for Prescribing Opioids for Pain — United States, 2022. RR-3):1–95.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Alex: Today, we’re delighted to welcome Josh Briscoe, who is assistant professor of medicine and psychiatry at Duke, and a palliative care physician at the Durham VA Medical Center. Coming off as rote and scripted during a serious illness conversation can have a similar off-putting impact on patients and families. All the time. ;).

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Illness IT Patient-Centered Patients 101

GeriPal

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Earlier this year palliative care was the correct response to the following clue on the game show Jeopardy: From a Latin word for “to cloak”, it’s the type of care given to seriously ill patients to provide comfort without curing. So what do we do about it? Why is this different from clinical communication skills? Transcript. Marian: I do.

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GeriPal

APRIL 10, 2025

Most emergency providers wanted to do the right thing for seriously ill patients, but they didnt have the knowledge, skills, or experience to do it. I went into emergency medicine to act. I cant do the primary thing Ive been trained to do: ABC, ABC, ABCs. They got training in Vital Talk and ELNEC. They got feedback. So did it matter?

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GeriPal

MARCH 10, 2022

While we like to think about how our goals and preferences will influence what that life looks like, including whether you will get potentially burdensome interventions, your fate is probably influenced more by factors like where you live and what nursing home you happen to end up in. . Archives of Internal Medicine 2010. Rehabbed to Death.

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