What you'll learn

  • Recognize that lifestyle choices are the root cause of most disease, death, and health care cost.

  • Utilize evidence-based practices in health coaching to support initial behavior change and to sustain the new behavior.

  • Counsel patients on the importance of lifestyle changes.

  • Develop strategies to encourage patients to make and meet their new lifestyle goals.

  • Describe and demonstrate the spirit of motivational interviewing (MI) and its four processes (engaging, focusing, evoking, planning).

  • Adapt the MI skills to fit into participants’ current practice setting and target behaviors.

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Course description

Evidence-Based Approaches to Help Patients Initiate and Sustain Healthy Behaviors

Lifestyle Medicine is an online course, using live streaming, electronic Q&A, and other remote learning technologies.

This immersive two-day course offers state-of-the-art strategies to guide patients (and ourselves) to healthier lives. Education includes evidence-based strategies, tools, and techniques to effect lifestyle changes, including weight loss, exercise, sleep, stress management, nutrition, mental health, and health/wellness coaching.

Past participants report a renewed passion for practicing medicine and reduced personal stress as they learn to enhance their own health and to serve as role models for their patients.

One day prior to the start of Lifestyle Medicine, on June 10, 2026, you can expand your learning experience by attending the optional full-day workshop, Mastering the Principles of Motivational Interviewing.

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