The American College of Lifestyle Medicine has awarded 34 scholarships for residency program directors, associate directors and faculty members who are part of the growing trend of lifestyle medicine inclusion in medical residency training. More than 4,183 resident doctors are currently learning lifestyle medicine in 202 residency programs implementing the Lifestyle Medicine Residency Curriculum (LMRC), originally developed in 2018.
ST. LOUIS, Oct. 12, 2022 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- The American College of Lifestyle Medicine (ACLM) today announced 34 recipients of the Dr. Steven Turner Residency Director and Faculty Scholarships awarded to residency directors, associate directors, and faculty members interested in adopting the Lifestyle Medicine Residency Curriculum (LMRC) into their residency training programs.
The LMRC is a comprehensive, applicable and flexible curriculum that prepares residents to make evidence-based, lifestyle behavior interventions and, upon completion of the educational and practicum components of the curriculum, qualify to sit for the American Board of Lifestyle Medicine (ABLM) certification exam.
The LMRC was first piloted in July 2018 within four sites across five programs, with 80 residents enrolled. As of Sept. 1, 2022, the LMRC is now being implemented in 202 residency programs across 96 sites, with 1,195 faculty and 4,183 residents enrolled.
"The rapid growth of the Lifestyle Medicine Residency Curriculum in residency programs across the U.S. reflects the urgent realization that we can no longer continue to simply manage symptoms of chronic disease through ever-increasing quantities of medications and procedures and instead must finally start to address the root causes of chronic disease," said ACLM President Cate Collings, MD, FACC, MS, DipABLM. "Residency programs integrating the lifestyle medicine curriculum ensure that physicians they train develop the knowledge and skills to make evidence-based, lifestyle behavior interventions with patients and positions those physicians to be leaders in the fast-growing field of lifestyle medicine. I congratulate the recipients of the 2022 scholarships and thank them for their interest and leadership."
The scholarships are primarily available to family medicine, internal medicine, preventive medicine, physical medicine and rehabilitation, and occupational medicine residency leaders. However, residency leaders representing all specialty types are welcome to apply.
The scholarships, which were supported by the Steven Turner Residency Director and Faculty Scholarship Fund and the Ardmore Institute of Health, provide one year of ACLM membership, registration fees for the ACLM annual conference, the ACLM "Foundations of Lifestyle Medicine Board Review Course," and the ABLM Certification Exam.
Applications for 2023 LMRC scholarships will open in early 2023.
Lifestyle medicine is a growing medical specialty that applies evidence-based therapeutic lifestyle interventions in six pillars: whole food, plant-predominant nutrition, physical activity, restorative sleep, stress management, risky substance avoidance and positive social connection, to treat conditions like cardiovascular diseases, type 2 diabetes and obesity.
"Modern medical education does not do a great job teaching practical evidence-based nutrition principles and other lifestyle medicine modalities," said Kevin Wile, MD, resident faculty at Penn State Health and LMRC scholarship recipient. "I have always wanted to develop a stronger foundation in lifestyle behavior interventions and am excited that this scholarship will help provide me the resources I need to not only develop that foundation but better teach these incredibly important concepts to residents and medical students."
The LMRC consists of both educational and practicum components. Its educational component includes 40 hours of interactive virtual didactic material along with 60 hours of application activities designed to be completed over a one- to three-year time period. The practicum component includes 400 lifestyle medicine-related patient encounters, 20 hours of intensive therapeutic lifestyle change (ITLC) program experience and 20 hours of group facilitation experience.
Programs integrating the LMRC participate in a supportive online community to share resources and find answers to common implementation questions, as well as take part in frequent support group meetings to help navigate through the LMRC implementation process.
St. Luke's University Health Network – Anderson Campus is in its fourth year of implementing the LMRC into the family medicine, internal medicine, and now psychiatry residency programs, said Meagan Grega, MD, FACLM, DipABLM.
"The practical, experiential knowledge gained by the residents on how to support patients in shifting to healthier eating habits, regularly including physical activity in their daily lives, prioritizing restorative sleep, exploring ways to manage stress and nourish social connections while avoiding risky substances, are critical tools for their future career – both for their patients and for themselves," Dr. Grega said. "We have noticed our residents making healthy changes in their own lives, which has affected the culture of our whole institution for the better. During a time when national surveys have found more than 60% of physicians suffering symptoms of burnout, the LMRC curriculum provides a space to remind us of the importance of nurturing wellness and resilience. I am thrilled to see the rapid expansion of the LMRC across the country, and hope that it will become a foundational component of all medical training."
2022 LMRC scholarship recipients
Ashley Brown, MD, MPH, FAWM
University of Nebraska Medical Center/Offutt Air Force Base
Family Medicine Residency Program
Lauren Messina, PhD, LCMFT
Human Performance Resources by Consortium for Health and Military Performance (CHAMP)
Charin Hanlon, MD
Novant Health New Hanover Regional Medical Center
Internal Medicine Residency Program
Brooke La Duca, MD
Long Beach Memorial Family Medicine Residency
Family Medicine Residency Program
Paul Schaefer, MD, PhD
The University of Toledo
Family Medicine Residency Program
Miyeon Oh, MD
Rochester Regional Health General Hospital
Internal Medicine Program
Cara Hall, MD, CAQSM
Keck Medicine of USC
Family Medicine Residency Program
Paula Cook, MD
St. Marks Family Medicine Residency
Family Medicine Residency Program
Karim Ghobrial-Sedky, MD, MSc
Cooper University Health Care Psychiatry Residency Program
Michael Pratt, MD, MPH
Rutgers Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences Institute (EOHSI)
Occupational and Environmental Medicine Residency Program
Werther Marciales, MD
Manatee Memorial Hospital
Internal Medicine Residency Program
Clarissa Hoff, MD, MPH, FACPM
Tulane University School of Medicine
Preventive Medicine Residency Program
Samuel Clarke, MD, FAAFP
Self Regional Healthcare
Family Medicine Residency Program
Matt Symkowick, MD
Kaiser Permanente Northern California, Napa Solano
Family Medicine Residency Program
Timothy Yu, MD
Virgina Commonwealth University (VCU) Bon Secours
Family Medicine Residency Program and Sports Medicine Fellowship
Supratik Rayamajhi, MD
Sparrow Hospital/Michigan State University
Internal Medicine Residency Program
Christina Shenko, MD, FAAFP
Middlesex Health
Family Medicine Residency Program
Chandramohan Batra, MD
Iowa Medical Education Consortium
Baran Onder, MD
Kaiser Permanente Greater Sacramento Valley
Family Medicine Residency Program
Sean McCann, DO
Lakeland Regional Health
Family Medicine Residency Program
Eun Ji Kim, MD
Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell
Brea Bondi-Boyd, MD
Kaiser Permanente Greater Sacramento Valley
Family Medicine Residency Program
Kathryn Holder, MD
Kaiser Permanente Northern California, Napa Solano
Family Medicine Residency Program
Marianna Worczak, MD
The University of Vermont Health Network - Champlain Valley Physicians Hospital
(CVPH)
Family Medicine Residency Program
Richard Steward, DO
St. John's Episcopal Hospital
Family Medicine Residency Program
Elise Hogan, MD, MPH
ChristianaCare
Family Medicine Residency Program
Peter Pendergrass, MD, MPH
University of Texas Health Science Center at Tyler
Preventive Medicine Residency Program
Stefanos Kales, MD, MPH
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health (HSPH)
Occupational Medicine Residency Program
Jen Johnson, DO
Riverside Regional Medical Center
Obstetrics/Gynecology Residency Program
Tara Lane, MD
Northside Hospital Gwinnett
Internal Medicine Residency Program
Linda Mcghee, MD
University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences Northwest
Family Medicine Residency Program
Peter Martin, DO
Nellis Air Force Base
Family Medicine Residency Program
Philip Palmer, MD, FAAFP
INTEGRIS Health
Great Plains Family Medicine Residency Program
Kevin Wile, MD
Penn State Health
Family and Community Medicine Residency Program
About ACLM--The American College of Lifestyle Medicine is the nation's medical professional society advancing lifestyle medicine as the foundation for a redesigned, value-based and equitable healthcare delivery system, leading to whole person health. ACLM educates, equips, empowers and supports its members through quality, evidence-based education, certification and research to identify and eradicate the root cause of chronic disease, with a clinical outcome goal of health restoration as opposed to disease management.
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