Eddie Phillips, MD
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The Director’s Note
As a junior at Yale College I met with the dean responsible for pre-medical students to help me make my final decision about whether to attend medical school. “I am fascinated by science, love working with people, and interested in helping people become healthy, but I still am not sure about going to medical school.” The dean simply asked, “Do you want to be a doctor?” I said “yes” and she advised, “Then medical school is the best way to become a doctor.” Her simple and unerring logic compelled me to apply. However, I was so excited to be admitted that I never stopped to read the medical school brochure to find out exactly what I would be studying.
Off I went to the wonderfully intense experience of learning medicine and multiple approaches to treat sickness and alleviate suffering. I anticipated learning about exercise and nutrition. I knew that staying active was something that I personally did for enjoyment, but I received little to no formal education in physical activity. Nutrition seemed like something more important |
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Champions of Change in Lifestyle Medicine
The Lifestyle Medicine Education Collaborative (LMEd) is proud to showcase lifestyle medicine education programs in medical schools. The schools highlighted are at various stages of program development and implementation. School leaders have shared information regarding courses, electives, activities, and programs to assist other schools as they develop their own programs. Read and learn.
Do you want to showcase your medical school and residency program in an upcoming newsletter? Contact Cary H. Wing, EdD, FACSM, for more information.
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The University of Toledo Medical Center has designed and implemented a Lifestyle Medicine Elective for preclinical medical students. Enrollment in the elective has increased from four students in spring 2015 to 27 in spring of 2017. Because of the success of this lifestyle medicine elective for first and second year medical students, the medical school curriculum committee has agreed to include “Lifestyle Medicine” as a thread in all years of the medical school curriculum starting in Fall 2017.
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Over the past two years, several individuals in the Department of Orthopaedics and Rehabilitation at the University of Florida have been making teaching inroads into the medical school curriculum to include the American College of Sports Medicine Exercise is Medicine (ACSM EIM) principles. The group will soon be hosting an ACSM certification to help develop a network of trained fitness professionals so that providers have access to resources and a referral system.
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At the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine (JHUSOM), faculty and students joined forces with chefs and experts in clinical nutrition to establish the JHUSOM Teaching Kitchen in 2015.Through the Teaching Kitchen, students learn about nutrition by cooking, tasting the dishes they prepare, and discussing with the chefs, dietitians, and peers about how they can improve their own eating habits as well as those of their patients.
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Curricular Resources
The Lifestyle Medical Education Collaborative (LMEd) has assembled curricular resources for schools to utilize to promote and implement lifestyle medicine curriculums. If you have any valuable curricular resources that are already available and in use by medical schools, feel free to share. We thank the Ardmore Foundation and our many sponsors and organizations who provide collaboration, resources, and talent in this area. Click here to view the LMEd Curricular Resources on the website. Send questions, comments or updates regarding curricular resources to Dennis Muscato, dmuscato@westernu.edu.
Recent Additions to the MedEdPORTAL Lifestyle Medicine Collection
The LMEd has established a contractual relationship with MedEdPortal, the peer-reviewed collection of curricular resources from the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC).
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LMEd Mentoring
The LMEd Mentoring program provides assistance for medical schools in creating their own lifestyle medicine education leadership program for their medical students.
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Webinar Series
Join LMEd as we build momentum for lifestyle medicine education and discuss the future of healthcare through our webinars. There is no charge to participate, but registration is required and availability is limited.
Review the 2016 Webinars. The 2016 four-part webinar series focused exclusively on developing and advancing leadership in lifestyle medicine curricular education. Power Points available for each webinar. Learn more.
LMEd 2017 Webinar Series Debuts
We are excited to announce our second Lifestyle Medicine Education Collaborative (LMEd) webinar series.
Applying and Practicing Lifestyle Medicine in Residency
Tuesday, April 25
2:00 PM ET
LMEd Host: Eddie Phillips, MD
Presenters: Brenda Rea, MD, DrPH, PT, RD and Regan Stiegmann, DO, MPH
The presenters, Brenda Rea and Regan Steigman, will share stories of how lifestyle medicine-based practices have been successfully integrated into various residency education programs. In addition, they will discuss how they personally apply the concepts of lifestyle medicine into their own lives.
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Research / News
Advancing Lifestyle Medicine Education in Undergraduate Medical School Curricula Through the Lifestyle Medicine Education Collaborative (LMEd). American Journal of Lifestyle Medicine. December 2016. Jennifer L. Trilk, PhD, Dennis Muscato, MS, Rani Polak, MD
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LMEd Quick Search
- What is LMEd? The Lifestyle Medicine Education Collaborative (LMEd) offers leadership, guidance and resources to advance the adoption and implementation of lifestyle medicine curricula throughout medical education. Learn More.
- Suggest article for newsletter or webinar for LMEd Consortium. Contact us.
- Submit or find Lifestyle Medicine Curriculum on MEdEdPORTAL Click here.
- LMEd Curricular Resources: Free and Fee-Based.
- LMEd Webinars 2016 and 2017
- Access LMEd Mentoring Toolkit Dropbox. Contact us.
- Opportunities for Lifestyle Medicine Medical Education Development, Developing Policy on Lifestyle Medicine Medical Education Nationally. Contact us.
- ACLM Lifestyle Medicine Medical Education Working Group – Residency
Contact Lucas Shanholzer, Loma Linda University.
- ACLM Lifestyle Medicine Medical Education Working Groups - Nursing, Dietician, Physical Therapy. Click here.
- Get involved and support the Active Lifestyle Medicine Student Interest Groups:
ACLM Physicians in Training. Learn More.
- For more information and to submit comments and questions, contact us at Info@LifestyleMedicineEducation.org
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