Weight Management | Core Competencies
Weight Management | Core Competencies is organized by American College of Lifestyle Medicine (ACLM) and will be held from Jan 26, 2022 - Jan 26, 2025.
Description
Part of the Lifestyle Medicine Core Competencies program, this topic module contains two units:
• Obesity as a Lifestyle Medicine Condition | Ingrid Edshteyn, DO, MPH, DipABLM
• Lifestyle Medicine and Obesity Medicine | Ingrid Edshteyn, DO, MPH, DipABLM
The first unit provides a review of the epidemiology, determinants, assessments, and evaluation for weight management in a lifestyle medicine practice. The second unit reviews the three main components of weight management within clinical practice: nutrition, physical activity, and behavior change. Increased counseling and integrated care delivery models for weight management will improve the success of weight management programs and ultimately reduce the burden of disease seen in overweight patients.
Learning Objectives
After viewing the module presentations, learners should be able to:
Obesity as a Lifestyle Medicine Condition
• Define obesity as a clinical condition
• Review the medical risks associated with excess adiposity
• Explain the epidemiology of obesity
• Interpret the complex determinants of obesity
• Describe the practical assessment and evaluation methods for weight management in clinical practice
Lifestyle Medicine and Obesity Medicine
• Explain why lifestyle is the first-line medicine for obesity from the Look AHEAD Trial
• Describe expected outcomes and metabolic adaptations with weight loss
• Recognize the role of nutrition in preventing and treating excess weight
• Review physical activity interventions in weight management
• Identify key elements of behavior change counseling for durable implementation of weight management programs