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The Midwest Trans Health Education Network: Increasing Access to Gender Affirming Care Through Virtual Training Cohorts [Education and training]

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context Gender affirming medical care is associated with long term benefits for transgender and non-binary patients but access to such care does not meet the current need. Many practicing providers receive no training in gender affirming hormone care, working competently with gender diverse patients, or ensuring an affirming care environment.

Education

Education Primary Care Provider Community

Secondary analysis of the SHaPED trial: shifting away from opioids to simple analgesics for emergency care of low back pain [Pain management]

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

reduction in the prescription of opioids (OR 0.57, 95% CI 0.38–0.95) without compromising patient outcomes. Context: The SHaPED trial implemented a model of care for low back pain in emergency departments and resulted in a 12.3% non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs-NSAIDs).

Management

Management Referral Education Patients

Tapping the potential applications of mHealth

The Health Policy Exchange

FEBRUARY 20, 2014

Mobile health, or "mHealth" for short, describes technology that allows clinicians or public health professionals to monitor and/or deliver health-related messages to patients via cellular phones, tablets, or other wireless devices. and abroad was the topic of a recent Georgetown University Health Policy Seminar.

Chronic Disease

Chronic Disease Family Medicine DO Hypertension

Increasing Primary Care Research Workforce and Output through T32 Primary Care Fellowship Training [Education and training]

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

CONTEXT Primary care (PC) is well-positioned to address rapidly evolving public health priorities and research meaningful to patients and other stakeholders. Culturally-competent, high-quality training is provided via coursework, seminars/workshops, and mentored, hands-on research. Research training is rate-limiting.

Primary Care

Primary Care Education Mental Health Patient-Centered

Forecasting and adapting to the family medicine workforce shortage

The Health Policy Exchange

MARCH 26, 2014

These questions were the subjects of two recent Georgetown University Health Policy seminars. For example, telehealth technologies could lighten the load on family physicians by promoting patient self-management of chronic conditions; improving medication adherence; and facilitating real-time specialist consultations.

Family Medicine

Family Medicine DO Families Family

Maryland's Primary Care Program: incremental progress or breakthrough?

The Health Policy Exchange

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

Since their continuity clinic continues to be located in Maryland, we decided that a great topic to revive this series of seminars was the Maryland Primary Care Program (MDPCP), which was recently featured in a Milbank Memorial Fund Issue Brief. Also, patients may not have a choice of specialists, depending on the insurer's network.

Primary Care

Primary Care Primary Care Physician Patient-Centered Behavioral Health Services

Nutrition and dietary guidelines: stirring the (policy) pot

The Health Policy Exchange

MAY 29, 2014

At first glance, federal nutrition policy seemed to be an unusual topic for our Georgetown Health Policy Seminar for family physicians. They must learn to work in interprofessional teams with dietitians and other skilled health professionals to help patients make needed dietary changes.

Medical Student

Medical Student Government Internal Medicine Family Physician

Medicaid expansion is in the eye of the beholder

The Health Policy Exchange

MAY 7, 2013

To supporters of the Affordable Care Act, legislative expansion of the Medicaid program is a welcome financial and health care bonanza for states and uninsured patients.

Insurance

Insurance Individual Family Medicine DO

Racial health inequality in prostate cancer associated with facility-level disparities

Medical Xpress

MARCH 13, 2023

Typically, patient-level and physician-level factors have been used to explain the racial and socioeconomic differences in prostate cancer disparities. Their results are published in Urologic Oncology: Seminars and Original Investigations.

Healthcare

Healthcare Individual Hospital Patients

What is a Leadership Course

LEAD Physician

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

Physicians must be leaders in their field to provide excellent patient care, manage a large team and coordinate between departments, and support their patient's overall health with information about prevention and maintenance. For example, a physician might be dealing with a patient who has just been diagnosed with cancer.

Relationship

Relationship Education Management Patients

OptiSleep Appliance.A 'How To'

CDOCS

JULY 22, 2019

. [image:Screen_Shot_2019_07_22_at_3_52_53_PM.jpg] & In this screen, you need to identify the patient&rsquo;s airway. Again, double-click to end the segmentation and form a box denoting the patient&rsquo;s airway.

Diagnose

Diagnose Finance Patients Screening

Biased research, aggressive sales, harmful drugs

The Health Policy Exchange

MAY 20, 2013

In this month's Georgetown University Health Policy seminar, we discussed two examples, anemia drugs and the diabetes drug rosiglitazone (Avandia) , which were prominently featured in recent articles by Peter Whoriskey in The Washington Post. for three more years, during which thousands of new patients were prescribed the drug.

Manufacturing

Manufacturing Family Medicine DO Patients

The sense and nonsense of CT screening for lung cancer

The Health Policy Exchange

SEPTEMBER 16, 2013

In this context, our August 2013 Georgetown University Health Policy Seminar debated the USPSTF's recent draft recommendation statement that endorsed annual low-dose CT screening for lung cancer in longtime smokers. Images from the Lung Cancer Foundation's Demand A CT Scan campaign. Kenny Lin, MD, MPH Director, Robert L. Phillips, Jr.

Screening

Screening Family Medicine DO Insurance

Politics and practice guidelines: a volatile mix

The Health Policy Exchange

MARCH 14, 2013

In this month's Georgetown University Health Policy seminar, we discussed the financial and political challenges that AHRQ and its predecessor, the Agency for Health Care Policy and Research (AHCPR) have faced while trying to improve outcomes and effectiveness of medical care since the latter's founding during the first Bush Administration.

Family Medicine

Family Medicine DO Screening Medical

The Angry Patient: A podcast with Dani Chammas and Keri Brenner

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Summary Transcript Summary Think about the last time a patient yelled at you in anger. Dani and Kery present three steps for interacting with an angry patient: Look within: What is this anger bringing up in me? Ask why: What is underneath the anger for this particular patient? Taking care of the hateful patient.

Patients

Patients IT Families Family

Primary Care Digest

The Midwest Trans Health Education Network: Increasing Access to Gender Affirming Care Through Virtual Training Cohorts [Education and training]

Secondary analysis of the SHaPED trial: shifting away from opioids to simple analgesics for emergency care of low back pain [Pain management]

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Tapping the potential applications of mHealth

Increasing Primary Care Research Workforce and Output through T32 Primary Care Fellowship Training [Education and training]

Forecasting and adapting to the family medicine workforce shortage

Maryland's Primary Care Program: incremental progress or breakthrough?

Nutrition and dietary guidelines: stirring the (policy) pot

Medicaid expansion is in the eye of the beholder

Racial health inequality in prostate cancer associated with facility-level disparities

What is a Leadership Course

OptiSleep Appliance.A 'How To'

Biased research, aggressive sales, harmful drugs

The sense and nonsense of CT screening for lung cancer

Politics and practice guidelines: a volatile mix

The Angry Patient: A podcast with Dani Chammas and Keri Brenner

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