Lifestyle Medicine: Tools for Promoting Healthy Change
June 11, 2010 in Boston, Massachusetts
This one-day course will provide the knowledge, skills, and tools for healthcare professionals to effectively and efficiently promote healthy lifestyle changes in their patients. Internationally renowned experts in the fields of Lifestyle Medicine, nutrition, smoking cessation, and the process of behavioral change will facilitate this highly interactive and patient-centered activity.
Attendees will participate in a combination of lectures and experiential education to gain confidence with the clinical practice of Lifestyle Medicine. State of the art tools and skills, including information on wearable technology, health monitoring devices, and shared medical appointments will be presented.
Our faculty will inspire and motivate you:
- Dr. James Prochaska — developer of the stages of
change model - Dr. David L. Katz — authority on nutrition, weight management, and prevention of chronic disease
- Dr. Nancy Rigotti — expert in smoking cessation and
tobacco control policy research - Dr. Joe Kvedar — founder and director of the Center
for Connected Health - Dr. Edward Noffsinger — pioneer of group medical visits
Coming from far away? We have procured a small block of hotel rooms for this course at:
Holiday Inn Boston at Beacon Hill
5 Blossom Street (at Cambridge Street)
Boston, MA 02114
Rate: $159 per night
Phone: 617-742-7630
Reserve by: May 10, 2010
To obtain our special rate, kindly identify yourself as an attendee of "Lifestyle Medicine: Tools for Promoting Healthy Change".
Active Doctors, Active Patients
November 12-14, 2010 in Boston, Massachusetts
Join distinguished faculty from Harvard Medical School and world class fitness and wellness practitioners for this highly interactive, exercise-centered course that will provide physicians with the necessary tools to assess and recommend changes in patients' levels of physical activity/exercise. Highlights include:
- The state of the science of physical activity/exercise, nutrition, stress management, and coaching psychology
- Interactive workshops on a wide range of exercise options including Pilates, spinning, resistance training, boxing, cardio conditioning, and individual fitness assessments
Active Doctors, Active Patients is ideal for primary care physicians, family practice physicians, physiatrists, endocrinologists, cardiologists, sports medicine physicians, nurses, physician assistants, and wellness and health professionals.
Please visit www.ActiveDoctors.org for complete information.
Lifestyle Medicine for Stress Management
"Stress" is a common patient complaint and chronic stress-related symptoms can account for a substantial proportion of primary care office visits. Via an engaging and interactive case study, this online course seeks to train physicians to effectively coach their patients toward positive stress management choices. The case study takes place over several office visits with each encounter presenting a common stress-related problem.
This online course costs $20 and satisfies 1 credit hour.
Learn more and register today!
Lifestyle Medicine for Weight Management
This course seeks to train physicians to efficiently and effectively coach their patients toward improved lifestyle choices.
Lifestyle choices, including tobacco use, poor diet, and inactivity, are at the root of the most prevalent causes of death: heart disease, stroke, and cancer. Lifestyle modification is a cost-effective means to reduce the estimated costs of ~$120 billion for tobacco-related illness and ~$90 billion from sedentary behavior and overweight/obesity annually in the United States alone.
Additional lifestyle factors impacting disease include limited stress coping skills and poor medication compliance.
The impact of these lifestyle choices is well recognized. Therefore, affecting behavioral change and motivating individuals toward better choices is an area of active interest and research.
This online course costs $80 and satisfies 4 credit hours.
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Lifestyle Medicine: Prescribing Exercise
This online course introduces students to another facet of Lifestyle Medicine. Because Americans are leading increasingly sedentary lifestyles and are becoming more overweight/obese, there is a need to educate physicians on the benefits of prescribing exercise to their patients. While the benefits of exercise are widely known, physicians do not always have the necessary training to counsel their patients on how to incorporate exercise into their daily routines.
Exercise is Medicine™, which is a nationwide initiative of the American College of Sports Medicine, will equip physicians with the knowledge they need to prescribe exercise to patients in a manner similar to prescribing medication. The ultimate objective of this initiative is to have every physician at every visit prescribe exercise for every patient, as needed and appropriate. The format of the course will be multiple choice, with an explanation as to why a particular answer that is chosen is right or wrong.
This online course costs $20 and satisfies 1 credit hour.
Learn more and register today!
Learn more about The Institute of Lifestyle Medicine.