Barton Associates

JUNE 19, 2025

There’s a lot that goes into running a healthcare facility , from managing patient care to ensuring adequate coverage around the clock. In these complex and ever-changing environments, staffing challenges can quickly become a critical issue, impacting both patient care quality and operational efficiency.

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Common Sense Family Doctor

DECEMBER 27, 2024

This isn't only because too few medical students are choosing primary care residency programs ; it also reflects generalist physicians leaving practice prematurely due to burnout. These days, most adults need to wait several months for a new patient appointment with a family doctor, if they can get one at all.

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Aspiring Minority Doctor

DECEMBER 17, 2023

When I started this blog, I had just received my first acceptance into medical school, and after scouring the web and not being able to find anyone with a similar story as mine, I wanted to create something to not only document my journey through medicine, but help inspire and encourage others to pursue their dreams as well.

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Aspiring Minority Doctor

APRIL 18, 2021

Every year, thousands of medical school graduates go unmatched. If you’re a 4th year medical student who is unmatched at this point, my advice is the following: Focus on securing a one year preliminary or transitional year position! What if I fail to match into any position? Urgent care work definitely isn’t for everyone though.

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Aspiring Minority Doctor

OCTOBER 10, 2021

I had to catch two separate flights, literally ran to make my connecting flight, and was forced to check my carry on which was then placed on the wrong plane, but I managed to make it to my daughter's performance right on time :) It was worth all the hassle and she did an excellent job! ProudMommy #BlackGirlMagic in the Operating Room!

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The Motivated MD

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

Doctors looking to actively manage real estate will be front and center. This can involve (but is not limited to) property research, contract negotiation, purchase, and subsequent management. Lastly, investors can actively deduct expenses related to property taxes, maintenance, and management fees depending on the investment.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 23, 2025

Summary Transcript CME Summary Its another deprescribing super special on today’s GeriPal Podcast, where we delve into the latest research on deprescribing medications prescribed to older adults. Today, we explore four fascinating studies highlighting innovative approaches to reducing medication use and improving patient outcomes.

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GeriPal

MAY 19, 2022

But more importantly, when I looked at your appendix, Dr. Rosielle the Institute of Safe Medication Practices says, you should never have order sets or charts or anything where one drug name is very close in proximity to another drug name, particularly if they sound alike. Honestly, I can calculate that. Is that right? Drew: Of course, yeah.

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The Medical Futurist

JUNE 21, 2025

Matthew Enevoldson, PR Manager at SkinVision told The Medical Futurist that technology such as their own is becoming more integrated within the health system, to both ensure that those who need treatment are made aware of it and that those who have an unfounded concern do not take up valuable time and resources.

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GeriPal

JUNE 12, 2025

I was really fascinated not only with the medical side of things, but some of the. I knew I wanted to do palliative medicine pretty early Even in medical school. 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.

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Aspiring Minority Doctor

DECEMBER 31, 2024

December 17 th marked 11 years since this blog has been in existence, but for the first time ever since its creation, I managed to go the entire year without a single post! I always love interacting with students, so it was a great experience.

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ABIM

JUNE 4, 2025

See the discussion on the Special Consideration IMG (International Medical Graduates) Pilot Pathway below.) Dr. Johnson updated the Specialty Board on the pilot proposal, which is currently under review by the American Board of Medical Specialties. Community Practice in ABIM Governance* Erica N.

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

MAY 22, 2025

Teaching and clinical reasoning are his passions and he continues to teach and mentor students from the undergraduate to medical student and resident level. She completed her undergraduate degree in Health Policy and Management at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.

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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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Tiny Physician

MAY 25, 2022

Indian medical students, who were pursuing their studies in Ukraine, were the most affected Indians in this whole matter. This article aims to address their plight and we have taken input from Malavika (name changed for privacy) who is a student at a Ukrainian medical university. Even though 1.6

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GeriPal

APRIL 14, 2022

Management of chronic pain in the elderly: focus on transdermal buprenorphine. Zachary: I mean, I did my med school and residency training in Louisville, Kentucky, and I had a second year med student lecture from Joe Rotella who was, I think the chief medical officer at Hospices at the time. Transcript. This is Eric Widera.

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GeriPal

MARCH 13, 2025

You’re a disgruntled medical student. You’re thinking about dropping out of medical school. I was thinking of leaving my medical studies and I sat down with a mentor and told him this. The only thing that we couldn’t do is prescribe for medication, but we were doing a lot of that bedside work.

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GeriPal

MAY 12, 2022

In this podcast, we cover a great deal of ground, including: Early challenges Dr. Raj faced in pain management: access to opioids, corruption, a system that doesn’t see addressing suffering as a priority. Raj: It was indeed very, very gradual, and the seeds were sown when I was a medical student. Was it that thunderclap moment?

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GeriPal

MARCH 3, 2022

And then when I did residency in internal medicine first, there was just a lot of focus on a lot of heroic management in the ICU that didn’t always appeal to me without thinking about what the morbidity might look like. I think we’re probably managing sicker patients on the floor. It was this slow build, I would say.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Managing anger is hard, it’s really hard. And yet we don’t ever talk about how to manage it. Eric: I also wonder, thinking about our own medical school training, at least mine, is that there wasn’t a lot of normalizing emotions in our med school. Dani: Yeah, good question. Eric: Zero. Dani: Zero. Eric: Zero.

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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. I wasn’t able to really fully recover from that, from a relational standpoint, and as best I could do symptom management along the way.

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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. Even in the crazy hurried clinic space, the interesting thing, I have had two or three outpatient clinic managers email me that said, “I saw this narrative.”

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GeriPal

MARCH 30, 2023

We’ve also love to hear from you on twitter and facebook your own experiences writing for the medical world (and please include links!) And so, it’s about going live on stage in the medical audience, and everything from the whiteboard in the surgery room saying, “Here’s the lineup. This is Eric Widera.

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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. Even in the crazy hurried clinic space, the interesting thing, I have had two or three outpatient clinic managers email me that said, “I saw this narrative.”

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GeriPal

APRIL 6, 2023

A friend of GeriPal, and prior guest, Guy Micco commented today that we need an RCT for chaplaincy is like the idea that the humanities need to justify their value in medical training: “It’s like being told to measure the taste of orange juice with a ruler.” It meets in-person, once a month, over nine sessions. This is Eric Widera.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

She’s a geriatrician and palliative care doc and is associate chair for professional development in the department of Psychosocial Oncology and Palliative Care at the Dana Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School. I don’t manage anybody, but I get to sit in on some leadership meetings and make my voice heard.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 1, 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

JULY 7, 2022

And then one day when I was in my third year of medical school, I was in the gym and I hurt my back in a really horrific way. I was helped into a wheelchair kind of rushed to the emergency room, which was not far away because I was on the medical school campus. I thought I couldn’t finish medical school. Haider: Yeah.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

And you’re supposed to read the medical literature and basically I have sort of found that the medical literature are not the books that have helped me get better or smarter. He basically is talking about people who got promoted to senior management. Bob: And how they sucked at senior management. Well it helps you.

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