VIDEO: Online CME ‘bridges the gap’ in lifestyle medicine knowledge
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ORLANDO — An online lifestyle medicine CME led to positive personal and professional changes in health care providers, study results presented at the Lifestyle Medicine Conference showed.
Kiranmayi Kakumani, MD, an associate physician at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, explained to Healio that the CME — aimed at providing physicians with strategies for resilience and education on guidelines for healthy behavior — was based around the six pillars of lifestyle medicine.
In the analysis, the researchers surveyed 107 providers who completed the CME to assess its effects and determine its most effective features.
They found that participants reported improvements in five of the six pillars, particularly for exercise and stress.
Kakumani noted that the CME’s most effective feature “is that it’s evidence based.”
Tools used in the CME, like PowerPoint and quizzes, “were also very helpful,” she added.
With the education taken from the CME, participants “found it more useful to bring it to the patients, because we don’t get formal lifestyle medicine training during our medical education,” Kakumani said. “This CME bridges the gap that they had before.”
Reference:
- Hundal J, et al. Development and implementation of the lifestyle medicine cancer toolkit for risk reduction and survivorship. Presented at: Lifestyle Medicine Conference; Oct. 27-30, 2024; Orlando.