This program has also been approved for 4.00 hours of continuing education credit with the Commission Case Management Certification (CCM). In order to receive your verification of completion form, please email cme_online@hms.harvard.edu

Lifestyle choices including tobacco use, poor diet, and inactivity are at the root of the most prevalent causes of death: heart disease, stroke, and cancer. Lifestyle modification is a cost-effective means to reduce the estimated costs of ~$120 billion for tobacco related illness and ~$90 billion from sedentary behavior and overweight/obesity annually in the US alone.

Additional lifestyle factors impacting disease include limited stress coping skills and poor medication compliance.

The impact of these lifestyle choices is well recognized. Therefore affecting behavioral change and motivating individuals toward better choices is an area of active interest and research. This course seeks to train physicians to efficiently and effectively coach their patients toward improved lifestyle choices.

NUMBER OF CREDIT HOURS: The Harvard Medical School designates this educational activity for a maximum of 4 AMA PRA Category 1 credit(s)™. Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

COST: $80.00
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OVERALL LEARNING OBJECTIVES:

1. Train physicians to efficiently and effectively prescribe and coach lifestyle medicine interventions for their patients.
2. Affect change in physicians' personal lifestyle choices regarding weight, physical activity/exercise, nutrition, smoking, stress management, and depression management.
3. Help disseminate guidelines on exercise, nutrition, overweight/obesity, and stress management.

CLINICAL LEARNING OBJECTIVES:

1. Learn active and reflective listening, appreciative inquiry, supportive feedback, decisional balance, and self-efficacy to improve the quality of their interactions with patients and improve their ability to facilitate patient lifestyle change.
2. Rapidly assess a patient's readiness to change for each prescribed behavior and tailor their message and coaching to the patient's stage of change.
3. Become well versed with new clinical guidelines in the USDA Nutrition (Food Pyramid) and the Physical Activity/Exercise recommendations from the CDC/ACSM.
4. Employ the guidelines for overweight/obesity treatment and prevention to afford rapid screening and intervention for patients.

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EDWARD M. PHILLIPS, MD Course Director

Edward M. Phillips, MD, is Assistant Professor of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at Harvard Medical School. He is Director of Outpatient Medical Services of the Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital Network in Boston, Massachusetts. Dr. Phillips’s clinical and academic work at the intersection of exercise physiology and mental health spawned his interest in Lifestyle Medicine. He is founder and director of The Institute of Lifestyle Medicine in the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at Harvard Medical School, www.instituteoflifestylemedicine.org. Additionally, Phillips serves on the American College of Sports Medicine task force that has initiated and developed the Exercise is Medicine™ program. His book on the topic, Exercise is Medicine™, The Clinician's Guide to the Exercise Prescription will be published by Lippincott, Williams and Wilkins in early 2009. DISCLOSURE: Reported no relevant financial relationships with commercial entities

THERESA LAVIN, BS, MBA Course Contributor

Terry has been a leader in higher education administration for twenty years, focused in the area of student development. She has served as Director of Wellness Programming at Boston College and is currently the Director of Graduate Admissions at the MGH Institute of Health Professions in Boston, MA, the academic affiliate of Massachusetts General Hospital. Terry is an ACSM certified Health and Fitness Instructor as well as a certified Wellness Coach and has contributed to many educational programs in the area of health and wellness. DISCLOSURE: Contractor: Wellcoaches Corporation

MARGARET MOORE, BS, MBA Course Contributor

Margaret is an entrepreneur and 17-year veteran of the biotechnology industry in the UK, France, Canada, and the USA. Margaret served in executive roles in two multinational pharmaceutical companies (part of AstraZeneca and Aventis), and as CEO or COO of two startup biotechnology companies, including a cancer biotechnology company that merged with publicly traded Medigene AG (Germany) in 2001. Margaret is the Founder and CEO of Wellcoaches Corporation (strategic partner of the American College of Sports Medicine), which has set a gold standard for the training and certification of healthcare providers as professional health and wellness coaches, and has trained 4,000 coaches since 2002. Margaret is the lead author of the Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins Coaching Psychology Manual – the first coaching textbook in healthcare. Margaret is a co-founder and co-director of the Institute of Coaching at McLean Hospital/Harvard Medical School. She leads the Institute’s Center for Coaching in Healthcare and a national agenda for coach credentialing and coaching research. Margaret is also an advisor to the Institute of Lifestyle Medicine at Spaulding Hospital/Harvard Medical School. DISCLOSURE: Owner, CEO: Wellcoaches Corporation

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MOLLY B. CONROY, MD, MPH Reviewer

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ELIZABETH PEGG FRATES, MD Reviewer

Elizabeth Pegg Frates, MD, is a Clinical Instructor in the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at Harvard Medical School and Assistant Director of Medical Education of the Institute of Lifestyle Medicine. Dr. Frates received her BA degree from Harvard University and medical degree from Stanford University School of Medicine. Her focus is on the academic side of medicine, teaching the Human Central Nervous System, Musculoskeletal System, and Introduction to the Professions at Harvard Medical School. She is also a writer, stroke educator and researcher. Beth completed her internship in Internal Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital and her residency in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital, where she served as Chief Resident. Dr. Frates educates the public about stroke basics including risk factors, warning signs, what to do if someone is having a stroke and how to prevent a second stroke. Much of the prevention requires behavior modification. She is the co-author of the book Life After Stroke: The Guide to Recovery and Preventing Another Stroke published by Johns Hopkins University Press. In residency, Dr. Frates worked on a study examining the exercise habits of physicians and comparing that to their counseling. She found that physicians who exercise themselves are more likely to counsel patients about exercise. Dr. Frates is an avid runner, completing her first race, a 10-mile course on Nantucket Island, when she was in 7th grade. More recently, in May 2006, she completed the Vermont Half Marathon as a member of the Train to End Stroke team with the American Heart Association. DISCLOSURE: Reported no relevant financial relationships with commercial entities

GRACE HUANG, MD Reviewer

Grace Huang, MD, is the Director of the Office of Educational Technology at the Carl J. Shapiro Institute for Education and Research, a joint venture between HMS and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) in Boston. She also works as a hospitalist at BIDMC. She has spent a number of years designing web-based modules on clinical skills, including computer-based case simulations (“virtual patients”), physical diagnosis tutorials, interactive pathophysiology diagrams, and procedure-based instruction. She serves as a consultant to the Association of American Medical Colleges in their initiative to promote scholarship and sharing of educational materials through MedEdPORTAL. Her clinical research interest is in the impact of a formal hospital-based procedure service on complication rates among internal medicine residents. DISCLOSURE: Dr. Huang's spouse works at Pfizer, Inc., and she holds stock options and shares in the same company.

WALTER C. WILLETT, MD Reviewer

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NUMBER OF CREDITS: 4 

Harvard Medical School is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

The Harvard Medical School designates this educational activity for a maximum of 4 AMA PRA Category 1 credit(s)™. Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Upon completion of the course you will get a certificate via e-mail within 2 weeks.

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