AAFP Lifestyle Medicine Live Course

This Lifestyle Medicine Workshop: A Foundation for Optimal Health is approved as a CME Event prerequisite for the American Board of Lifestyle Medicine exam for 2024.

Monday, March 18, 2024—Wednesday, March 20, 2024

Hyatt Regency Newport Beach
Newport Beach, CA

Nearly 80% of all chronic diseases are preventable, and lifestyle behaviors are responsible for 40% of all premature deaths. Lifestyle medicine offers a proactive, holistic, and sustainable approach to health care that focuses on prevention, well-being, and improving the overall quality of life for your patients.

Join us at the Hyatt Regency Newport Beach for this popular course from the AAFP. Enhance your practice as you learn to emphasize the use of evidence-based therapeutic approaches to prevent, treat, and oftentimes reverse chronic disease.

This course will include Problem-Based Learning (PBL), which allows you to practice applying key concepts learned via team-based problem solving, facilitated by expert faculty. In the end, you will be able to write a brief action plan for implementing a key concept into practice.

Key topics include:

• Diabetes/prediabetes
• Obesity
• Cardiovascular/hypertension/dyslipidemia
• Substance use
• Mental health
• Cancer
• Social determinants of health
• Practical application in the clinical setting

Optional Sessions (separate fee required):

• Health Coaching and Motivational Interviewing Workshop
• Payment for Lifestyle Medicine Workshop
• Culinary Workshop: Walk the Walk, Talk the Talk, and Heal Thyself

Improve your patient counseling and health coaching skills and learn well-being concepts that are also applicable to staff and physician well-being. Designed specifically for family physicians and led by experts.

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