Articles: professional-practice.
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Mentorship is critical to physician recruitment, career development, and retention. Many underrepresented in medicine (URiM) physicians experience minority taxes that can undermine their professional objectives. Use of cross-cultural mentoring skills to navigate differences between non-URiM and URiM physicians can make mentorship relationships with URiM physicians more effective. This survey examined military family physician demographics and mentorship practices. ⋯ Structured programs are needed to improve knowledge and skills to support cross-cultural mentorship. Additional studies are needed to further evaluate and identify implementation strategies.
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Annals of family medicine · Sep 2023
ReviewPatient Communication Preferences for Prostate Cancer Screening Discussions: A Scoping Review.
Prostate cancer screening guidelines have changed as new evidence showing an equivocal mortality benefit led many organizations to relax recommendations for this screening and instead suggest shared decision making. Presently, it is unknown how successfully these conversations happen. Our objective was to understand men's communication preferences when they discuss prostate cancer screening. ⋯ Our findings point to strategies to support men's communication preferences and address preconceptions surrounding prostate cancer screening. More studies are needed in certain underrepresented populations given the propensity for disparity in health outcomes.
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After reading this review article, participants should be able to: Prepare the practice for continuous glucose monitoring (CGM). Understand options available to the practice for professional (practice-owned) and personal (patient-owned) CGM. Locate and interpret CGM data, using the ambulatory glucose profile (AGP), to determine if the patient is achieving targets established by the International Consensus on Time in Range. Modify a patient's treatment plan based on CGM data to improve patient outcomes.
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Interprofessional learning (IPL) events can provide a supportive environment for GPs to improve care and health outcomes for vulnerable children, young people, and their families. Thirty GPs have facilitated small groups at an annual interprofessional domestic abuse conference since 2014. It was postulated that distilling GP learning from these events could provide a template for focused training to up-skill the local GP workforce. ⋯ This impact study has provided a discrete evidence base from which to focus up-skilling of the local primary care workforce. This might include a possible educational template to improve interagency working in supporting adult and child survivors of DA with the legacy of this trauma.
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Primary care professionals deliver the majority of end-of-life care to patients. However, extensive pressures and constraints can contribute to variable and substandard care quality. We will report on the preliminary results from an independent evaluation of the 'Daffodil Standards for Advanced Serious Illness and End-of-Life Care', created by the Royal College of General Practitioners and Marie Curie. ⋯ The results will be used to inform and refine the design illustrative case studies to capture best available learning and identify exemplars of best practice for later phases of the study.