Lifestyle Medicine 101 Curriculum

The Lifestyle Medicine 101 (LM 101) Curriculum fosters a foundational understanding of lifestyle medicine and behavior change principles crucial for enhancing patient care, community education, and academic instruction, ensuring that healthcare professionals are equipped to view all future encounters through a lifestyle medicine lens from the outset of their careers.

These slide decks are an amazing resource whether you are looking to enhance patient education in the clinic, give lifestyle medicine community lectures, deliver lectures for your hospital grand rounds, or if you are a faculty member wanting to enhance your health course.

— Dr. Michelle Tollefson, MD, FACOG, DipABLM

 

The Lifestyle Medicine 101 (LM 101) curriculum includes thirteen slide decks, with 50-200 slides each, that follow Beth Frates’ award winning Lifestyle Medicine Handbook. This curriculum can be tailored to a variety of settings to educate audiences about the basics of lifestyle medicine. The curriculum also includes a syllabus and instructor’s manual.

Curriculum Components

Component
Slide Decks
Instructor’s Manual
LM Syllabus
Beth Frates’ LM Handbook (separate purchase required)

Modules

ModuleSlides
Introduction to Lifestyle Medicine–Understanding Lifestyle Medicine160
Empowering People to Change118
Collaborating, Motivating, Goal-Setting, and Tracking81
Improving Health Through Exercise158
The Nutrition-Health Connection152
Weight Management57
Sleep Matters140
Stress and Resilience129
Peace of Mind With Meditation, Mindfulness, and Relaxation146
The Power of Connection129
Positively Positive146
Substance Use Disorder142
Staying the Course117

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Course summary
Course opens: 
01/01/2022
Course expires: 
12/31/2026
Cost:
$0.00

Beth Frates, MD, FACLM
AUTHOR
Clinical Assistant Professor @ Harvard Medical School, Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation

President, American College of Lifestyle Medicine 2022-2024

Michelle Tollefson, MD, FACOG, DipABLM
CONTRIBUTOR
Associate Professor @ Metropolitan State University of Denver
Physician @ St. Luke’s Medical Clinic

Gia Merlo, MD, MBA, DipABLM
CONTRIBUTOR
Clinical Professor, and Senior Advisor on Wellness @ New York University
Clinical Professor of Psychiatry @ NYU Grossman School of Medicine
Adjunct Professor @ Rice University

Price

Cost:
$0.00
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LM 101 Curriculum – Complimentary Access
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ACLM members, faculty, and educators can access PDFs of all slide decks, the syllabus, the instructor’s manual, and editable PowerPoint files.

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