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The Primary Care Discussion Forum is an electronic forum for the discussion of clinical best practices.
The moderated Discussion Forum process involves an initial primer presented by a nationally recognized expert, followed by a series of questions that are pertinent to local health care providers. The discussion facilitator moderates an open discussion among members of the Indian Health Primary Care listserv. What to expect and instructions to subscribe or unsubscribe are given below.
There are also spontaneous discussions that arise and are summarized below.
Upcoming Discussions
March 3, 2008
Adolescent Behavioral Health Issues
Moderator: Frank Armao, MD
Psychiatrist, Winslow IHS
Discussion Points:
- The complex influence of early life stress and trauma in shaping development.
- The increased burden of developmental stress as it pertains to Native Americans.
- How to distinguish teens with relatively normal perturbation in development from those needing more intensive management and/or referral to behavioral health.
- What constitutes a significant mood disorder in an adolescent, and what are the options for management.
- The serious limitations of DSM-IV and current nosology in “diagnosing” adolescent behavioral health conditions.
Other proposed topics are below
Let me know if you have other ideas
- Judicious antibiotic use in the OP ambulatory care setting
- SA/ Alcohol/ Tobacco
- Use of narcotics/ pain control/ addiction medicine issues
- End of life issues/ hospice care/ palliative medicine
- Violence
- Immunizations
- Cancer screening/ prevention
- Diabetes/ HTN/ CAD/ management and prevention
- IHS Primary Care Provider Topic of the month
- GPRA Indicated topics
- Prevention topics with clinical case reviews
- Morbidity and Mortality discussions
- Primary Care trauma
- HRT after the WHI
- Elder care
Subscriber Information
What to expect from the Primary Care Discussion Forum?
Please note:
You can expect 20-30 e-mail messages per topic. Each discussion will last approximately
4-6 weeks and the facilitated discussions occur 4 times a year.
If that is too much e-mail for you, then don't subscribe, or just subscribe for those topics of special interest to your practice and then unsubscribe after that topic is closed out.
If you just want to review the primer and e-mail discussions, then they will be summarized and posted above.
How to subscribe/unsubscribe to the Primary Care Discussion Forum?
You can subscribe to the Primary Care listserv here
You can unsubscribe from the Primary Care listserv here
The last field on the page is "List Functions".
Click on "Subscribe", which will generate an email message.
Replace "<your name here>" with your name.
Send the email message.
Follow the instructions in the return mail to complete your subscription.
If you have any questions on the use of the Indian Health listserv(s) please contact the Listserv Administrator
*Any opinions presented are strictly those of the authors, and not necessarily those of the Indian Health System, or the coordinator of this web page. If you have any comments, please share them by joining the Primary Care Discussion Forum where these topics are discussed. Instructions to subscribe to the Discussion Forum are given above.
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