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Building Capacity to Address Opioid Use Disorder: Results from an embedded education program in health profession curricula [Behavioral, psychosocial, and mental illness]

Annals of Family Medicine

The population of focus included medical students, nurse practitioners and physician assistants. Intervention: Our university developed a training for pre-licensure physicians, physician assistants and nurse practitioners that included the required training for prescribers and a shadowing experience.

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MAFP Supports Two Student Programs This Summer!

Maine Academy of Family Physicians

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. and hear about their programs.

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Physician Support Groups (Sundays) | Peer Support for Doctors

Pamela Wible MD

View Our 2025 Physician Retreats Confidential support for doctors in crisis. Connection, healing & hope. Are you a physician grappling with burnout, betrayal, grief, or even suicidal thoughts? Have you been caught in a board investigation, faced bullying, or found yourself feeling isolated in your struggles? You’re not alone.

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Buprenorphine Use in Serious Illness: A Podcast with Katie Fitzgerald Jones, Zachary Sager and Janet Ho

GeriPal

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). This was the hot topic at AHPM.

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The Future of Geriatrics: A Podcast with Jerry Gurwitz, Ryan Chippendale, and Mike Harper

GeriPal

The medical school has no geriatricians.” ” And I said to her, well, they had a geriatric nurse practitioner. We can train medical students and residents about geriatrics without geriatricians. And same with what we’re learning from the residents and the medical students that are joining.

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Miscommunication in Medicine: A podcast with Shunichi Nakagawa, Abby Rosenberg and Don Sullivan

GeriPal

I think, yeah, sometimes I encounter the resident or resident, medical students, that the patient is dying, and then we told the patient, patient understands, and then patient says, “I want to get better.” I think medical students are taught in medical school that, “Okay, so how do you ask the CPR?”

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Storycatching: Podcast with Heather Coats and Thor Ringler

GeriPal

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. This is Eric Widera.