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Foundations of Lifestyle Medicine Board Review, 5th edition (NO CME/CE)
Build your foundation in lifestyle medicine—and prepare to certify with confidence.
The Foundations of Lifestyle Medicine Board Review Course delivers the core knowledge every lifestyle medicine clinician needs. Comprehensive and self-paced, it’s the trusted study tool for certification prep—expertly designed to boost your confidence on test day and empower you to apply lifestyle medicine in practice.
Description
The Foundations of Lifestyle Medicine Board Review, 5th edition, is an evidence-based activity designed to review key concepts in lifestyle medicine and help candidates prepare for the American Board of Lifestyle Medicine (ABLM) Certification Exam (ABLM.org/how).
Activity development was led by faculty and co-authors Jonathan Bonnet, MD, MPH, FAAFP, FACLM, CAQSM, DipABOM, DipABLM; April Engle Wilson, MD, MPH, FACLM, FACPM, LM intensivist; and David Lippman, MD, DipIBLM, with additional contributions from subject matter experts across the field of lifestyle medicine.
This activity includes 10 sections, 12 lectures, 184 practice questions, and 30 hours of content.
Each section is broken down with the following activity materials:
- Introduction
- Review Lecture
- Quiz
As a result of participating in this activity, participants will be better prepared to:
- Assess patients using lifestyle medicine competencies.
- Conduct comprehensive lifestyle assessments to identify targets for behavior change, risk reduction, and chronic disease management.
- Apply lifestyle medicine principles in clinical decision-making.
- Integrate evidence-based lifestyle interventions across the six pillars of lifestyle medicine to prevent, treat, and potentially reverse chronic disease.
- Sustain lifestyle medicine practice patterns.
- Incorporate lifestyle medicine into clinical workflows, interprofessional care, and personal practice to support long-term patient outcomes and professional effectiveness.
This activity expires December 15, 2029, at 11:59 PM PST.
Activity Format
The Foundations of Lifestyle Medicine Board Review, 5th edition, is hosted online via the ACLM Learning Management System (LMS) and consists of 3 main components:
- COMPONENT 1 - Board Review eBook: The interactive eBook manual is available after activity purchase and can be accessed offline and via mobile device. The 354-page eBook consists of 10 sections with detailed graphics, table, and figures and an index.
- COMPONENT 2 - Online Review Lectures: There are 10 hours of review lectures that correspond with the board review eBook.
- COMPONENT 3 - Section Quizzes: There are 10 section quizzes that consist of 184 total questions, that correspond with each of the 10 eBook sections and review lectures.
The activity eBook, review lectures and section quizzes align with the 10 ABLM exam topic sections and competencies and review the following sections:
- Introduction to Lifestyle Medicine
- Fundamentals of Health Behavior Change
- Key Clinical Processes in Lifestyle Medicine
- The Role of the Practitioner’s Personal Health and Community Advocacy
- Nutrition Science, Assessment, and Prescription
- Physical Activity Science and Prescription
- Emotional and Mental Health Assessment and Interventions
- Sleep Health Science and Interventions
- Treating Tobacco Use Disorder and Managing Other Toxic Exposures
- The Role of Connectedness and Positive Psychology
Key Lifestyle Medicine Article Summaries: A downloadable PDF that summarizes 10 “key” lifestyle medicine articles is included in this activity as an additional bonus resource.
Target Audience
This activity is applicable for interprofessional healthcare team including physicians, registered nurses, nurse practitioners, physician associates, registered dietitians, physical therapists, occupational therapists, pharmacists, other health professionals working with chronic disease prevention or treatment, certified health coaches, and clinicians in training.
Learning Objectives
By the end of this activity, participants will be able to:
- Review the pillars of evidence-based lifestyle medicine and how it can prevent, treat and reverse disease.
- Review evidence-based lifestyle medicine prescriptions and their clinical application.
- Review evidence-based lifestyle medicine content that will be tested on the Lifestyle Medicine Board Certification Exam.
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Activity summary
Lead Authors:
Jonathan Bonnet, MD, MPH, DipABOM, DipABLM, FAAFP, FACLM
Chief Medical Officer, Ardmore Institute of Health
Clinical Associate Professor (Affiliated), Stanford University School of Medicine
April Engle Wilson, MD, MPH, FACLM, FACPM, DipABLM, LM Intensivist
Associate Clinical Professor, Loma Linda University School of Medicine and
Loma Linda University School of Public Health
David Lippman, MD, ABIM, DipABLM
Medical Director, ECHO Community Healthcare
Contributing Authors:
- Introduction to Lifestyle Medicine
- Melissa Mondala, MD, MS, MHA, FACLM, FAIHM, LM Intensivist, DipACLM
- Neha Pathak, MD, FACP, DipABLM
- Fundamentals of Health Behavior Change
- Tiffany M. Cagle, MD, NBC-HWC, PCC
- Erika Jackson, MLHR, MCC, CPHWC, NBC-HWC
- Key Clinical Processes in Lifestyle Medicine |
- Ngozi Ezinwa, MD, MPH, DipABLM
- Jacob Mirsky, MD, MA, DipABLM, FACLM
- The Role of the Practitioner’s Personal Health and Community Advocacy
- Kelly Freeman, MSN, RN, AGPCNP-BC, DipACLM, FACLM
- Nutrition Science, Assessment, and Prescription
- Melissa Bernstein, PhD, RDN, LD, FAND, FNAP, DipACLM, FACLM,
- Michelle Hauser, MD, MS, MPA, FACP, FACLM, DipABLM, Chef
- Micaela Karlsen, PhD, MSPH
- Matthew J. Landry, PhD, RDN, DipACLM, FAND, FAHA
- Paulina Shetty, MS, RDN, DipACLM, FACLM
- Physical Activity Science and Prescription
- Stephen Carek, MD, CAQSM, DipABLM
- Andrew Mock, MD, MPH, FACLM, DipABLM, DABPM, DABFM, DABOM
- Emotional and Mental Health Assessment and Interventions
- Douglas Noordsy, MD
- Wil Wong, MD, DABPN, DABIHM, DipABLM
- Sleep Health Science and Interventions
- Donna Arand, PhD, DABSM
- Mark G. Goetting, MD
- Cheri D. Mah, MD, MS
- Treating Tobacco Use Disorder and Managing Other Toxic Exposures
- Jill R. Selzle, PA-C, NCTTP, DipACLM, c-TTS
- Claudia Moore, MD
- The Role of Connectedness and Positive Psychology
- Simon Matthews, FACLM, FASLM, MHlthSci, DipIBLM, MAPS, NBC-HWC, PCC
- Darren Morton, PhD, DipIBLM
Price
ACLM member and category discounts are applied at checkout.
To receive member-only pricing, please join as a member FIRST, then complete your activity enrollment in a separate transaction. For more information, please click here.
| Non-member | ACLM Members |
|---|---|
| $499 | $399 |
Access to online material is granted through the term of approval, which ends December 15, 2029.
Participant User Agreement (Terms of Use and Copyright)
Before registering for a Continuing Education/Continuing Medical Education Activity (“Training”) for the first time, carefully review the following conditions of usage at https://lifestylemedicine.org/terms-of-use-and-copyright/
Registering for an American College of Lifestyle Medicine Activity indicates your acceptance of the Participant User Agreement and its terms and conditions.
Required Hardware/software
This activity can be accessed through the Ethos LMS on a desktop, tablet, or most mobile devices using a modern web browser. A stable internet connection is required for all online components (sections, quiz, end-of-activity survey, credit claiming, and supplemental resources), and speakers or headphones are required for the section presentations. The eBook can be read online in a web browser or in the VitalSource Bookshelf app, which also supports offline access on supported devices.