Sep 9, 2026 · 36 min · 9 segments
This week, primary care experts Drs. Kate Rowland, Gary Ferenchick, Mark Ebell and Henry Barry discuss 4 new studies: The post-Papanicolau era of HPV self collection, electroacupuncture for…
By my calculation, that means we've been doing this for about eight years, I think, something like that.
I'm Gary Forenchik, General Internist and Professor of Medicine at Michigan State University.
I'm Henry Barry, a skeptical family physician and one of the originators of poems.
I'm getting ready to go up north to the northern part of Michigan for Michigan State University's annual planning retreat with the residency, but it's also a meeting of the research collaborative that we are developing to build research capacity within family medicine.
And I mention this because the meeting is on Friday, which will be the 25th anniversary of the attacks of 9-11.
And ironically, 25 years ago on 9-11, Linda White and I, Linda White was our research network coordinator and helped manage our research collaborative with the University of Michigan.
And she and I were in Ann Arbor meeting with Lee Green and other colleagues when the attacks happened.
And part of what our meeting was, was in fact to build research capacity in family medicine.
It's been a longstanding issue in family medicine and it continues to be an ongoing care and nurturing of our academic credentials.
The opinions expressed on Primary Care Update are those of the commentators, and this podcast doesn't represent medical advice or the endorsement of any product.
To find links to the original studies and other resources that we talk about, just go to Spotify.com and search for Primary Care Update.
This week, the post-Pepa Nicolaou era, electroacupuncture for post-herpetic neuralgia, an AI-based app for melanoma detection, and the onset of silent atherosclerosis.
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By my calculation, that means we've been doing this for about eight years, I think, something like that.
I'm Gary Forenchik, General Internist and Professor of Medicine at Michigan State University.
I'm Henry Barry, a skeptical family physician and one of the originators of poems.
I'm getting ready to go up north to the northern part of Michigan for Michigan State University's annual planning retreat with the residency, but it's also a meeting of the research collaborative that we are developing to build research capacity within family medicine.
And I mention this because the meeting is on Friday, which will be the 25th anniversary of the attacks of 9-11.
And ironically, 25 years ago on 9-11, Linda White and I, Linda White was our research network coordinator and helped manage our research collaborative with the University of Michigan.
And she and I were in Ann Arbor meeting with Lee Green and other colleagues when the attacks happened.
And part of what our meeting was, was in fact to build research capacity in family medicine.
It's been a longstanding issue in family medicine and it continues to be an ongoing care and nurturing of our academic credentials.
The opinions expressed on Primary Care Update are those of the commentators, and this podcast doesn't represent medical advice or the endorsement of any product.
To find links to the original studies and other resources that we talk about, just go to Spotify.com and search for Primary Care Update.
This week, the post-Pepa Nicolaou era, electroacupuncture for post-herpetic neuralgia, an AI-based app for melanoma detection, and the onset of silent atherosclerosis.