Abstract This interactive workshop will give clinicians a handful of newer and innovative stress management skills that they can teach their patients “on the fly”, as most of this skills can be taught in a few minutes or less. These skills can also be used for the clinician to reduce […]
39th Annual Meeting
Sexploitation: Helping Kids Develop Healthy Sexuality in a Porn-Driven World
Abstract Part of Cindy’s mission is to encourage parents and educators to have conversations about sexuality with children early and often. With the tidal wave of cultural messaging rising fast, it is crucial that parents accept their role as the primary sexuality educators by proactively investing in their children’s future […]
“Demystifying the VA for our Community Partners”
Abstract The Veteran Benefit Agency can often be shrouded in mystery. While we can’t demystify everything about the VA we can shed some light on what the VA’s current policies are towards Community Clinic. We will present who we, the VA are, what we do, how Veteran’s earn their benefits, […]
“What are Clinicians and Schools Telling Patients in Regard to Sexual Education?”
Dr. Rebecca Yukica graduated from Kirksville College of Osteopathic Medicine in 2001. She completed her pediatric residency at Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center where she stayed on an extra year as Chief Resident. She then moved to Baltimore where she worked as a Pediatric Hospitalist at Johns Hopkins Medical Center. While […]
“Addressing Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) in Adult Primary Care Patients”
Abstract Previous research has shown that adverse childhood experiences may be connected to later medical and behavioral issues. Screening for these adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) has been shown to be helpful and accepted by patients. Our practice is involved in a research study conducted by Ardis Olson, MD and Patricia […]
“Northern New England Geriatric Workforce Enhancement Program Updates”
Abstract The Northern New England Geriatric Workforce Enhancement Program has seen many exciting changes over the past few years with our GITT-PC, RAFT, and other educational programs. One notable change is that we have incorporated Telehealth technology to help train health care providers to assess and address the primary care […]
“Reducing low value colonoscopy: Are patients with colon polyps willing to stop? And what’s the role of primary care and specialists? “
Presenter Dr. Calderwood is a gastroenterologist at Dartmouth-Hitchcock in Lebanon, NH and an Associate Professor of Medicine at the Geisel School of Medicine and The Dartmouth Institute. She is passionate about colon cancer prevention. Her research focuses on optimizing utilization of screening and surveillance colonoscopy, specifically among older adults, and […]
“The Primary Care Clinician’s Perspective on Lung Cancer Screening”
Dr. Morrow received her Doctor of Medicine at the University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont in 1987. She completed her residency in Family Medicine at the University of Rochester’s Highland Hospital in Rochester, NY in 1990 as well as a Family Medicine Faculty Development Program at Dartmouth Medical School in Hanover, […]
“The Newest in Lung Cancer Screening”
Abstract Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer death in the United States. In December 2013, based mainly on the results of the National Lung Screening Trial (NLST) (1), the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force issued a grade B recommendation for lung cancer screening with low-dose CT for those […]