Medical Knowledge

SAP-port System Building: Empowering Patients With Seizure Action Plans

This activity aims to improve learners’ knowledge, confidence, and competence in understanding the latest science, emerging conference and clinical trial data, and ongoing clinical trials to optimize treatment for patients with epilepsy.

ECHO – Gender Affirming Care Community of Practice

This case-based community of practice focuses on supporting primary care clinicians to care for patients who need gender-affirming care. Participants will bring cases to be discussed by their peers and an interdisciplinary panel of their

ECHO – Substance Use Disorders in Emergency Departments – Winter 2026

This ECHO aims to increase Substance Use Disorder (SUD) identification and evidence based treatment by Oregon Emergency Department staff. Barriers to excellent SUD care in EDs have included: stigma against persons with SUD, inexperience with medication for opioid use disorder…

Artificial Intelligence for Providers: A Risk Management Perspective

The rapid evolution of Artificial Intelligence (AI) into medicine presents both immense opportunities and significant challenges for the healthcare providers and other practitioners. While AI holds promise for improving patient safety, reducing costs, and enhancing experiences for both patients and…

ABC Medical Provider Core Training

These trainings review guideline-based recommendations for evaluation and treatment of children and adults with obesity. Included are practical tips for talking about weight with patients, assessing eating, activity, sleep and other related habits, screening for comorbidities, and engaging in shared…

Why Should Clinicians Care About Infectious Disease Existential Hazards?

Of all infectious disease events, pandemics could result in significant human depopulation in this Anthropocene epoch or even in the next few centuries. Existential factors that exacerbate pandemic risk include global warming, overpopulation, habitat loss, permafrost thawing, geopolitical conflict, and…

Why and How Should Physicians Mitigate Threats of Nuclear War?

Most physicians do not see, or learn to see, nuclear war threat mitigation as within the scope of their professional duties. This commentary on a case argues there are 2 reasons why physicians, in particular, should draw on their unique…

Why Should Extinction Medicine Be a Specialty?

This commentary on a case builds on recent literature on climate change, health, and human extinction to argue in favor of a new clinical specialty: extinction medicine. If based on precise application of scientific findings about species extinction, disaster prevention…

Medicine, Futures, and the Prevention of Human Extinction

This article draws a parallel between ethical reasons why people alive today have obligations to members of future generations and ethical reasons why physicians have obligations, besides helping improve patients’ quality of life, to help some patients confront their own…

How Might Health Care Think About the Ethics of Human Extinction?

Is there an important ethical difference between a global catastrophe that causes human extinction and one that does not? This commentary on a case introduces 3 approachesóequivalence, further-loss, and pro-extinctionistóin responding to this question. In particular, focus is placed on…