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Medical Education Column, Creating a High-Yield Guide to Lifestyle Medicine for Medical Students and Healthcare Professionals.

Andre M DempseyCase E Brabham
Published in: American journal of lifestyle medicine (2023)
Despite their inclusion as first-line therapy for many chronic diseases, lifestyle interventions are often de-emphasized in medical education and fail to make it into the repertoire of non-lifestyle medicine trained clinicians. We sought to address this gap in medical education by creating a concise pocket guide to lifestyle medicine that lends itself to use in the face-to-face clinical setting. With input from lifestyle medicine experts, the guide was created by medical students for medical students as well as other healthcare professionals for use in a variety of clinical settings. In this article we share our process of creating the guide, initial feedback, and future directions.
Keyphrases
  • medical education
  • medical students
  • physical activity
  • metabolic syndrome
  • weight loss
  • cardiovascular disease
  • palliative care
  • resistance training
  • body composition