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December 8, 2025BloodOpen Access

Identifying educational and resource needs of general internal medicine physicians in sickle cell disease management.

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ASAnas SammanVDVictoria DavidDGDawn Goodyear

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Overview

Cross-sectional needs assessment shows low comfort managing sickle cell disease in general internal medicine, indicating strong need for educational resources.

Key Points

  • This research evaluates the educational and resource needs of general internal medicine physicians for managing sickle cell disease (SCD).
  • Conducted a cross-sectional needs assessment using a web-based survey
  • Survey distributed via internal email among GIM physicians
  • Analyzed responses descriptively for comfort in recognizing SCD complications
  • Most respondents reported encountering exacerbations of chronic pain (83.3%) and acute vaso-occlusive pain crises (66.7%)
  • No respondents reported being extremely comfortable recognizing SCD complications
  • Strong interest in structured decision tools and educational supports

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Samman et al. (2025) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/69362f5d4fa91c937236dc4dhttps://doi.org/10.1182/blood-2025-8206
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