Section 3: Key Clinical Processes in Lifestyle Medicine
Learning Objectives
By the end of this activity module, participants will be able to:
- Integrate lifestyle vital signs into components of the patient history and physical exam
- Analyze and implement evidence-based clinical practice guidelines relevant to lifestyle medicine for prevention, treatment, and reversal of chronic diseases
- Describe the treatment of disease with the lifestyle medicine pillars as compared with medication
- Demonstrate how to screen, diagnose, treat, and monitor a lifestyle-related disease and provide lifestyle medicine–focused anticipatory guidance
- Discuss strategies for a clinical practice to access and implement use of local, national, and global resources
- Describe the key strategies for leveraging inter-professional teams to enhance health behavior change interventions
- Examine how group visits and telehealth can optimize lifestyle medicine treatment encounters
- Create and utilize data from office systems, such as electronic health records with lifestyle medicine guidance, in clinical decisions and care, including tracking screening frequency, test results, referrals, and recommended follow-up
- Analyze the evidence for collaborative and chronic care models on improved lifestyle outcomes
- Discuss successful primary care and office-based models for lifestyle modification
- Design a quality improvement project for lifestyle medicine clinical practice, using tools, such as Plan-Do-Study-Act (PDSA) cycles
- Explain principles of evidence-based medicine and their application to lifestyle medicine
- Describe methods of assessing effectiveness of interventions, such as patient activation measures and the therapeutic alliance measures
Activity summary
Activity opens:
10/01/2026
Activity expires:
12/15/2029
Cost:
$0.00
Price
Cost:
$0.00
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