Including lifestyle medicine in undergraduate medical curricula

Medical Education Online

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Phillips, Edward ^a   Pojednic, Rachele ^a   Polak, Rani ^a   Bush, Jennifer ^b   Trilk, Jennifer ^c  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b Level Smart Consulting   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE GREENVILLE   (United States)

Author keywords

Behavior change; Curriculum; Lifestyle medicine; Physician education; Undergraduate medical education

Indexed keywords

BODY WEIGHT; CURRICULUM; DIET; EDUCATION; EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE; EXERCISE; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; LIFESTYLE; MEDICAL EDUCATION; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; POLICY;

BODY WEIGHT; CURRICULUM; DIET; EDUCATION, MEDICAL, UNDERGRADUATE; EVIDENCE-BASED PRACTICE; EXERCISE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HUMANS; LIFE STYLE; PHYSICIANS, PRIMARY CARE; POLICY;

EID: 84928805397     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10872981     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3402/meo.v20.26150     Document Type: Article

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