Lifestyle Medicine in Practice
Lifestyle medicine CME
A majority of health outcomes are determined outside a physician’s office. Healthy choices directly lead to a healthier life, and helping your patients make those choices is one of the most effective things medical professionals can do.
This Lifestyle Medicine CME course is designed to expand your knowledge in key lifestyle medicine areas that help prevent your patients from developing chronic diseases and lower the risk of contracting other conditions. From nutrition to stress, mindfulness, sleep and beyond, you’ll learn to better guide your patients as they live their healthiest lives.
- Plant-based nutrition
- Avoiding substance use
- Stress management and mindfulness
- Physical activity
- Sleep
A majority of health outcomes are determined outside a physician’s office. Healthy choices directly lead to a healthier life, and helping your patients make those choices is one of the most effective things medical professionals can do.
This Lifestyle Medicine CME course is designed to expand your knowledge in key lifestyle medicine areas that help prevent your patients from developing chronic diseases and lower the risk of contracting other conditions. From nutrition to stress, mindfulness, sleep and beyond, you’ll learn to better guide your patients as they live their healthiest lives.
- Plant-based nutrition
- Avoiding substance use
- Stress management and mindfulness
- Physical activity
- Sleep
Learning Objectives
Define the six pillars of lifestyle medicine.
Summarize the impact of lifestyle choices on the risk of developing chronic disease, including cardiovascular disease and type 2 diabetes.
Develop customized plans that can be utilized with the care team and patients.
Summarize screening, evaluation and management strategies to decrease risky substance use and promote tobacco cessation.
Implement practice strategies to incorporate billing and coding for lifestyle medicine approaches.
Sessions with faculty
Evaluation and Management of Substance Use in Primary Care
Valerie Carrejo, MD, FAAFP
How To Build a Primary Care and Lifestyle Medicine Practice That Thrives
Melissa Mondala, MD, MHA, MS
Insomnia: Helping Patients Drift off To Sleep
Michael Spertus, MD, DipABLM
Life Lessons From the Longest Lived—Why Lifestyle Is the BEST Medicine
Meagan Llewelyn Grega, MD, FACLM
Mindful Moments: Making Mindfulness Part of the Patient Encounter
Kathleen Farah, MD, FAAFP; Lindiwe F. Greenwood, MD, FAAFP
Move Your Patients to Better Health
Deepak S. Patel, MD, FAAFP
Preventing and Reversing Chronic Disease With Plant-Powered Nutrition: Translating the Mechanisms Into Practical Application in the Clinic
Beth Motley, MD, DipABLM, FACLM
The Impact of Lifestyle Medicine Approaches for Treatment and Reversal of Chronic Disease
Meagan Llewelyn Grega, MD, FACLM; Cindy (patient engagement faculty)
Reflections*
Meagan Llewelyn Grega, MD, FACLM; Melissa Mondala, MD, MHA, MS, DipABLM; Beth Motley, MD, DipABLM , FACLM; Deepak S. Patel, MD, FAAFP; Michael Spertus, MD, DipABLM
The Power of Positive Connections and Positive Emotions in a Healthy Lifestyle
Liana Lianov, MD, MPH, FACPM, FACLM, DipABLM
Walk the Talk: Making Lifestyle Medicine Part of Everyday Practice
Elizabeth Polk, MD, FAAFP
*Enhance your patient care today and earn up to two additional AAFP Prescribed credits for when you complete the Translation to Practice® (t2p®) process.