The online certificate course equips clinicians with practical, evidence-based lifestyle medicine skills they can use to improve patient care and their own well-being.
ST. LOUIS, Jan. 6, 2026 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- The American College of Lifestyle Medicine (ACLM) has launched "Lifestyle Medicine Fundamentals: Framework for Success," an online, self-paced certificate course designed to equip healthcare professionals with essential knowledge and tools to incorporate lifestyle medicine into their practice, community and personal lives.
This 7.5-hour course delivers evidence-based lifestyle medicine content in a flexible format that fits into the busy schedules of clinicians. Through eight expert-led modules, participants explore the six pillars of lifestyle medicine—optimal nutrition, physical activity, restorative sleep, stress management, connectedness, and avoidance of risky substances—and learn strategies to advance and sustain behavior change in clinical and community settings.
Modules include concise micro-learning videos, as well as lifestyle medicine self-assessment tools, practical application activities, and actionable checklists that help participants integrate new knowledge. The course also incorporates ACLM's 1.5-hour "Introduction to Lifestyle Medicine" course content, ensuring all participants begin with a strong foundation in the field.
This Fundamentals course is ideal for a wide range of clinicians, including nurses, medical assistants, community health workers, behavioral health providers, public health professionals, and many others. Upon successful completion, clinicians receive an ACLM Certificate of Completion and may earn CE credit, ANCC credit for nurses, NBHWC credit for health coaches, and ABLM Maintenance of Certification credit for eligible participants.
"Patients are increasingly seeking guidance on nutrition, physical activity, and other lifestyle factors, making clinician competency in these areas more essential than ever," said ACLM Medical Director of Education Brenda Rea, MD, DrPH, PT, RD, DipABLM, FACLM, Lifestyle Medicine Intensivist. "This new course gives busy healthcare professionals a flexible and practical way to build the confidence and competence they need to integrate lifestyle medicine into daily practice. By strengthening these skills, clinicians can better support their patients—and themselves—in achieving lasting health."
The Fundamentals course was developed, in part, in response to the strong interested generated by ACLM's "Lifestyle Medicine & Food as Medicine Essentials" course offered in partnership with the 2022 White House Conference on Hunger, Nutrition and Health. More than 77,000 clinicians registered for the course, which ended in September 2025.
"More than 77,000 registrations confirmed what we are seeing across healthcare: there is unprecedented demand for lifestyle medicine education," said Associate Professor at the UConn Health School of Medicine Mahima Gulati, MD, DipABLM, FACLM. "The Fundamentals course represents the next step in equipping clinicians with foundational skills that align with where medicine is headed, while also positioning them to be leaders in this transformation."
Register for "Lifestyle Medicine Fundamentals: Framework for Success" here.
About ACLM®
The American College of Lifestyle Medicine (ACLM) is the nation's medical professional society advancing the field of lifestyle medicine as the foundation of a redesigned, value-based and equitable healthcare delivery system, essential to achieving the Quintuple Aim and whole-person health. ACLM represents, advocates for, trains, certifies, and equips its members to identify and eradicate the root cause of chronic disease by optimizing modifiable risk factors. ACLM is filling the gaping void of lifestyle medicine in medical education, providing more than 1.2 million hours of lifestyle medicine education to physicians and other health professionals since 2004, while also advancing research, clinical practice and reimbursement strategies.
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