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Module 1: Introduction to Lifestyle Medicine

Before starting this first module, please take a moment to take the short knowledge Pre-test above. It allows us to assess various aspects of the course itself and is mandatory to receive your certificate upon completion of the course.

First, do no harm. — Hippocratic oath 

Competency covered in this module: 

1. Introduction to lifestyle medicine.
   
2. The role of physician health.
3. Environmental lifestyle factors and their impact on non-communicable diseases.

• Stretching Exercise

Module 1 : Lesson 1: Definition, Role, and Evidence Base for Lifestyle Medicine

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• Lifestyle Medicine: Treating the Causes of Disease
• Lifestyle Medicine - Evidence Review
• Lifestyle Medicine Competencies for Primary Care Physicians
• Lifestyle Medicine - Evidence Review

• TEDxMindStreamAcademy - Dr. David Katz - The Road to Health
• Lifestyle Medicine Competencies
• Noncommunicable diseases country profiles 2018

• Quiz: Module 1: Lesson 1

Module 1 : Lesson 2: The Importance of Lifestyle Medicine in Treating the World's Lifestyle Disease Burden

Learning Objectives:

• Understand the importance of LM in treating the world's lifestyle disease burden.

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• Lifestyle medicine potential for reversing a world of chronic disease epidemics: from cell to community
• Lifestyle Medicine

• Lifestyle medicine: The importance of considering all the causes of disease

• Quiz: Module 1: Lesson 2

Module 1 : Lesson 3: The Role of Physician Health and Physician Advocacy

Learning Objectives:

• Cite scientific data supporting that physicians who practice healthy lifestyles are more likely to offer counseling and improve patient outcomes.

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Module 1 : Lesson 4: Environmental Lifestyle Factors and Their Impact on Non-communicable Diseases

Learning Objectives:

• Understand environmental lifestyle-related factors and their impact on non-communicable diseases.

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• Global Health Risk - Mortality and burden of disease attributable to selected major risks
• Environmental/lifestyle factors in the pathogenesis and prevention of type 2 diabetes

• Quiz: Module 1: Lesson 4

Module 2: Fundamentals of Health Behavior Change

Knowing is not enough—we must apply. Willing is not enough—we must do. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Competency covered in this module: 

1. Fundamentals of health behavior change.
   

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Module 2 : Lesson 1: Introduction to Behavior Change

Learning Objectives:

• Understand the role of behavioral determinants on positive and negative health outcomes.

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• Why behavior change is hard - and why you should keep trying

• Quiz: Module 2: Lesson 1

Module 2 : Lesson 2: Tools for Health Behavior Change

Learning Objectives

• Demonstrate key elements of conducting patient readiness assessment and stage matched responses.
• Understand the gap between clinical guidelines and patient behavior; know how to apply the transtheoretical model of health behavior change.

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• The Stages of Change Model, and Treatment Planning
• Influencing Patient Adherence to Treatment Guidelines
• Enhancing Motivation for Change in Substance Abuse Treatment: Treatment Improvement Protocol (TIP) Series, No. 35

• Quiz: Module 2: Lesson 2

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Module 2 : Lesson 3: Techniques for Health Behavior Change

Learning Objectives

Upon completion of the first lesson of Module 2, students should be able to:

• Apply motivational interviewing, cognitive behavioral, and positive psychology techniques.
  

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• Health Goals
• Encouraging Patients to Change Unhealthy Behaviors with Motivational Interviewing
• CCNC Motivational Interviewing (MI) Resource Guide
• Positive psychology in practice
• 5 A’s Behavior Change Model Adapted for Self-Management Support Improvement
• Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Treatment of Adult Obesity

• Motivational interviewing techniques: Facilitating behaviour change in the general practice setting
• The 10 Building Blocks of Primary Care - My Action Plan

• Quiz: Module 2: Lesson 3

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Module 2 : Lesson 4: Building Effective Relationships with Patients

Learning Objectives

• Describe the process of building effective relationships with patients.

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• The Effective Physician: Motivational Interviewing Demonstration
• The Ineffective Physician: Non-Motivational Approach

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Module 2 : Lesson 5: Maintain Healthy Behaviors

Learning Objective:

• Describe strategies for helping patients maintain healthy behaviors.

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• Making lifestyle changes that last
• Tips for Making Healthy Behavior Changes Last

• Supporting Self-management in Patients with Chronic Illness

• Quiz: Module 2: Lesson 5

Module 3: Physical Activity

Those who think they have no time for bodily exercise will sooner or later have to find time for illness. — Edward Stanley, Earl of Derby (1873)

Competency covered in this module: 

1. Physical activity science and prescription.
   

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Module 3 : Lesson 1: Introduction to Physical Activity

Learning Objectives

• Describe the relationship between physical activity and health.

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• Global Recommendations on Physical Activity for Health
• Your Prescription for Health - Exercise Is Medicine - Fact Sheet

• Effect of physical inactivity on major non-communicable diseases worldwide: an analysis of burden of disease and life expectancy
• 23 and 1/2 hours: What is the single best thing we can do for our health?

• Quiz: Module 3: Lesson 1

Module 3: Lesson 2: Recommendations on Physical Activity

Learning Objectives

• Describe the global physical activity guidelines recommended by the WH.

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• Global Recommendations on Physical Activity for Health

• How fast does the Grim Reaper walk? Receiver operating characteristics curve analysis in healthy men aged 70 and over

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Module 3: Lesson 3: Components of Physical Activity

Learning Objectives

• Describe the major evidence for the physical activity components (aerobic, strength, flexibility, and balance).

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• Quantity and Quality of Exercise for Developing and Maintaining Cardiorespiratory, Musculoskeletal, and Neuromotor Fitness in Apparently Healthy Adults: Guidance for Prescribing Exercise

• Activity Bursts Everywhere for Fitness - Physical Activity Engineered to fit YOUR life!

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Module 3 : Lesson 4: Patient Evaluation

Learning Objectives

• Evaluate a patient prior to the initiation of physical activity.

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• Exercise Prescription Doctor's Handbook
• Updating ACSM’s Recommendations for Exercise Preparticipation Health Screening
• 2019 PAR-Q+ The Physical Activity Readiness Questionnaire for Everyone

• Quiz: Module 3: Lesson 4

• Activity 3

Module 3 : Lesson 5: Exercise Prescription

Learning Objectives

• Develop an exercise prescription.

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• Physical Education/Health Education; Grade 11 Active Healthy Lifestyles: Manitoba Physical Education/Health Education Curriculum Framework of Outcomes and A Foundation for Implementation
• Your Prescription for Health - Exercise is Medicine
• Physical activity on asthmatic and diabetic patients
• Physical Activity in Children and Adolescents
• Committee Opinion: Physical Activity and Exercise During Pregnancy and the Postpartum Period

• The Borg Rating of Perceived Exertion (RPE) scale

• Quiz: Module 3: Lesson 5

• Activity 4
• Mentored Activity: Exercise Prescription Implementation (optional)

Module 3 : Lesson 6: Improving Exercise Adoption and Maintenance

Learning Objectives

• Motivate patients to increase their physical activity.

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• Exercise Prescription Doctor's Handbook
• Healthcare Providers' Action Guide

• Exercise Prescription Doctor's Handbook

• Quiz: Module 3: Lesson 6

• Enrichment Activity (optional): Physical Activity and Local Guidelines
• Peer Project Part II(optional): Personal Exercise Habits

Module 4: Nutrition

Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food. — Hippocrates

Competencies covered in this module

1. Nutrition science, assessment, and prescription 

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Module 4 : Lesson 1: Introduction to Nutrition

Learning Objectives

• Describe the basics of nutrition, as well as the metabolic effects of different foods.
• Summarize the major nutrition studies and evidence base for nutrition prescriptions.

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• Overview of Nutrition
• EFSA sets European dietary reference values for nutrient intakes
• Energy intake and expenditure
• Micronutrients for Health
• Vitamin Supplements: Hype or Help for Healthy Eating
• Disease Control Priorities in Developing Countries, 2nd edition

• Vitamins and Minerals

• Quiz: Module 4: Lesson 1

Module 4 : Lesson 2: The Role of Nutrition in Preventing and Treating Chronic Diseases

Learning Objectives

• Describe different types of diets and their effects on health.
• Understand the role of nutrition in preventing and treating chronic diseases, such as cardiovascular disease.
• Describe the role of nutrition in preventing, treating, and reversing diabetes.
• Summarize nutrition prescriptions for the most common chronic diseases including hyperlipidemia, diabetes, hypertension, and cancer.
• Know how to prescribe nutrition for basic disease processes including inflammation: food patterns / macronutrients, food types / micronutrients, food preparation / oxidation.

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• Healthy diet 
• Nutritional Recommendations for Cardiovascular Disease Prevention
• Diets for Cardiovascular Disease Prevention: What Is the Evidence?
• The prevention and control the type-2 diabetes by changing lifestyle and dietary pattern
• Can diet alone reverse Type 2 diabetes?
• Effects of Different Dietary Interventions on Blood Pressure
• Joslin Diabetes Center and Joslin Clinic - Clinical Nutrition Guideline for Overweight and Obese Adults With Type 2 Diabetes, Prediabetes or Those at High Risk for Developing Type 2 Diabetes
• 11 foods that lower cholesterol
• Heal Well: A Cancer Nutrition Guide
• Overview of Inflammation
• Foods that fight inflammation

• The Mediterranean Diet
• Nutrition Pilot Curriculum (Archived)
• Nutrition and Cardiovascular Disease: Finding the Perfect Recipe for Cardiovascular Health
• Mediterranean Diet and Diabetes: Prevention and Treatment
• Nutrition Prescription to Achieve Positive Outcomes in Chronic Kidney Disease: A Systematic Review
• Macronutrient intake induces oxidative and inflammatory stress: potential relevance to atherosclerosis and insulin resistance
• Diet and Inflammation

• Quiz: Module 4: Lesson 2

Module 4 : Lesson 3: Dietary Guidelines and Nutrition Prescriptions

Learning Objectives

• Demonstrate ability to perform a basic nutrition assessment and to apply practical strategies to assist patients in achieving dietary changes.
• Describe the basic principles of healthy cooking.
• Summarize the major nutrition studies and evidence base for nutrition prescriptions.
• Properly interpret nutrition labels.

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Module 4 : Lesson 4: Obesity

Learning Objectives

• Define obesity and understand its epidemiology as well as assist patients in the prevention and treatment of obesity.

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• About Obesity
• Obesity and overweight
• Adult Obesity Causes & Consequences
• Measuring Obesity
• U.S. Preventive Services Task Force - Screening for and Management of Obesity in Adults: Recommendation Statement
• Treatment for Overweight & Obesity

• Obesity: a chronic relapsing progressive disease process. A position statement of the World Obesity Federation
• Obesity prevalence worldwide - Adults
• Overweight & Obesity
• Treatment of Adult Obesity with Bariatric Surgery
• What's the Best Diet? Healthy Eating 101
• Healthy Weight Checklist
• Office-Based Strategies for the Management of Obesity

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Module 5: Sleep Health

Competencies covered in this module

1. Sleep health science and interventions.

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Module 5: Lesson 1: The Role of Sleep in Health

Learning Objectives

• Understand sleep’s role in health and chronic disease.
• Understand the basic physiology and the structural organization of sleep.

Approximate time required for the readings for this lesson (at 144 words/minute): 1 hour

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• Sleep Disorders and Sleep Deprivation: An Unmet Public Health Problem
• Sleep and Chronic Disease
• Sleep and Disease Risk
• Recommended Amount of Sleep for a Healthy Adult:  A Joint Consensus Statement of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine and Sleep Research Society
• Recommended Amount of Sleep for Pediatric Populations: A Consensus Statement of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine

• Session 4: Understanding Sleep's Role in Health Promotion & Chronic Disease  (Archived Webinar)
• Association of Sleep Duration with Chronic Diseases in the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition (EPIC)-Potsdam Study
• Sleep Disorders and Sleep Deprivation: An Unmet Public Health Problem

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Module 5 : Lesson 2: Sleep Disorder Evaluation and Management

Learning Objectives

• Know the common types of sleep disorders and the tools to evaluate and manage sleep.
• Identify lifestyle-based activity, dietary, environmental, and coping behaviors that can improve sleep health.
• Identify at least two lifestyle adjustments related to light exposure and meal composition and timing that support improved sleep.

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• Management of Common Sleep Disorders
• STOP Questionnaire:  A Tool to Screen Patients for Obstructive Sleep Apnea
• NIH MedlinePlus - the magazine (Summer 2012)
• Sleep Deprivation and Deficiency
• Twelve Simple Tips to Improve Your Sleep
• Sleep problems - Insomnia Management Kit
• Fiber and Saturated Fat Are Associated with Sleep Arousals and Slow Wave Sleep
• Blue light has a dark side
• Relationship between Food Intake and Sleep Pattern in Healthy Individuals

• Your Guide to Healthy Sleep
• Impact of lifestyle and technology developments on sleep

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Module 6: Tobacco Use

Competencies covered in this module :

1. Fundamentals of Tobacco Cessation

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Module 6 : Lesson 1: Epidemiology of Tobacco-Related Diseases

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• The Health Consequences of Smoking—50 Years of Progress:  A Report of the Surgeon General - Executive Summary
• 21st-Century Hazards of Smoking and Benefits of Cessation in the United States
• Final Recommendation Statement: Tobacco Smoking Cessation in Adults, Including Pregnant Women: Behavioral and Pharmacotherapy Interventions
• Final Recommendation Statement: Tobacco Use in Children and Adolescents: Primary Care Interventions

• Smoking Cessation Interventions for Youth: A Review of the Literature

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Module 6 : Lesson 2: The Physiological, Psychological, and Behavioral Components of Tobacco Use

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• Nicotine Addiction
• Pharmacology of Nicotine: Addiction, Smoking-Induced Disease, and Therapeutics
• The Health Consequences of Smoking—50 Years of Progress: A Report of the Surgeon General.

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Module 6 : Lesson 3: Treatment of Tobacco Use

Learning Objective:

• Demonstrate ability to assist patients to develop and implement plans for smoking cessation.
• Be familiar with the medications and treatments commonly used for tobacco cessation.
  
• Develop a written action plan based on the treatment prescription, adjusted for the appropriate stage of change.
  
• Prescription.
  

• Physician advice for smoking cessation
• Toolkit for delivering the 5A’s and 5R’s brief tobacco interventions in primary care
• Instrument:  Fagerstrom Test For Nicotine Dependence (FTND)
• The Brief Tobacco Intervention
• Promoting Smoking Cessation
• Stages of Change

• Quitting is a Journey
• Very Brief Advice on Smoking - 30 Seconds to save a life
• For Smokers Who Want to Quit - One Step at a Time
• treatobacco.net: Resource library

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• Activity 5
• Enrichment Activity (optional): Local Sources for Smoking Cessation

Module 7: Alcohol Use

"What are you doing here?" he asked the drunkard... "Drinking," replied the drunkard, with a gloomy expression. "Why are you drinking?" the little prince asked. "To forget," replied the drunkard. "To forget what?" inquired the little prince, who was already feeling sorry for him. "To forget that I'm ashamed," confessed the drunkard, hanging his head. "What are you ashamed of?" inquired the little prince, who wanted to help. "Of drinking!" concluded the drunkard... - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, "The Little Prince"

Competencies covered in this module :

1. Fundamentals of managing risky alcohol use

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Module 7 : Lesson 1: Epidemiology of Alcohol-Related Diseases

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• Global status report on alcohol and health 2014

• Problem Drinking and Alcoholism: Diagnosis and Treatment

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Module 7 : Lesson 2: Screening for Harmful Alcohol Use

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• Alcohol Screening and Counseling
• STABLE Resource Toolkit

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Module 7 : Lesson 3: Intervention and Prevention

Learning Objective:

• Demonstrate the ability to assist patients to develop and implement plans for avoiding risky alcohol use.
  
• Know the components of relapse prevention planning.
  
• Develop a written action plan based on the treatment prescription, adjusted for the appropriate stage of change.
  
• Intervention.
  

• Planning and Implementing Screening and Brief Intervention for Risky Alcohol Use
• Relapse Prevention Video: Early Warning Signs and Important Coping Skills
• Enhancing Motivation for Change in Substance Abuse Treatment: Treatment Improvement Protocol (TIP) Series, No. 35

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Module 8: Emotional and Mental Well-being

"God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, Courage to change the things I can, And wisdom to know the difference." - Reinhold Niebuhr, The Serenity Prayer

Competencies covered in this module:

1. Emotional and Mental Well-being Assessment and Interventions.

People accept stress as an inevitable part of their lives, but exposure to chronic high levels leads to various forms of significant stress-induced morbidity.  

In this module, you will learn how to identify a stressed patient and how to help him/her manage emotional and mental well-being.

Upon completion of this module, students should be able to:

• Understand the basic elements of stress response and the relationship between emotional distress and poor health.
• Describe the components of emotional wellness self-management.
• Use screening tools for stress, depression, and anxiety.
• Understand how skills of mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) and other approaches can help patients intervene in stress reactions and better care for themselves.
• Demonstrate the ability to manage depression and anxiety in patients with comorbidities.
• Be familiar with the unique stressors associated with being a physician, along with the possible ways of coping with stress, and describe the role of the provider in facilitating the emotional well-being of patients.

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Module 8 : Lesson 1: Relationship Between Stress and Health

Learning Objectives

• Understand the basic elements of stress response and the relationship between emotional distress and poor health.
• Describe the components of emotional wellness self-management.

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• The effects of chronic stress on health: new insights into the molecular mechanisms of brain–body communication
• 6 ways to improve your emotional wellness

• The Nature of Stress
• Positive Emotions and Your Health: Developing a Brighter Outlook

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• Enrichment Activity (optional): Guided Meditation

Module 8 : Lesson 2: Screening and Screening Tools

Learning Objectives

• Use screening tools for stress, depression, and anxiety.

Approximate time required for the readings for this lesson (at 144 words/minute): 1 hour

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• Depression Anxiety Stress Scales (DASS)
• Official Standards of the American College of Lifestyle Medicine

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Module 8 : Lesson 3: Lifestyle-related Intervention Strategies

Learning Objectives

• Understand how skills of mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) and other approaches can help patients intervene in stress reactions and better care for themselves.

Approximate time required for the readings for this lesson (at 144 words/minute): 1 hour

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• Learn to manage stress
• Exercise, Yoga, and Meditation for Depressive and Anxiety Disorders
• Relaxation techniques for stress
• Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction
• Your mindfulness practice can be formal or informal

• 3 Tips to Manage Stress
• Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction Program
• Body scan meditation session
• Guided Meditations

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Module 8 : Lesson 4: Depression and Anxiety in Patients with Comorbidities

Learning Objectives

• Demonstrate the ability to manage depression and anxiety in patients with comorbidities.

Approximate time required for the readings for this lesson (at 144 words/minute): 1 hour

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• Addressing comorbidity between mental disorders and major noncommunicable diseases

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Module 8 : Lesson 5: Stress and Burnout Among Physicians

Learning Objectives

• Be familiar with the unique stressors associated with being a physician, along with the possible ways of coping with stress, and describe the role of the provider in facilitating the emotional well-being of patients.

Approximate time required for the readings for this lesson (at 144 words/minute): 1 hour

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• The BASICS - Strategies for coping with stress and building personal resilience for physicians
• Burnout among physicians

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• Peer Project Part III (optional) : The BASICS

Module 9: Sexuality and Health

Sexual health working definition: “... a state of physical, emotional, mental and social well-being in relation to sexuality; it is not merely the absence of disease, dysfunction or infirmity. Sexual health requires a positive and respectful approach to sexuality and sexual relationships, as well as the possibility of having pleasurable and safe sexual experiences, free of coercion, discrimination, and violence. For sexual health to be attained and maintained, the sexual rights of all persons must be respected, protected, and fulfilled.”  The World Health Organization (2006)

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Module 9 : Lesson 1: Relationship Between Sexuality and Health

Learning Objectives

• Understand what is meant by the term ‘healthy sexuality’, and the relationship between sexuality and health.

Approximate time required for the readings for this lesson (at 144 words/minute): 1 hour

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• Defining sexual health
• How Chronic Illness Can Affect Sexual Function
• Drug-induced sexual dysfunction in men and women

• Sexuality in Later Life
• Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Health

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Module 9: Lesson 2: Counseling Patients with Sexuality Issues

Learning Objectives

• Understand the role and the limitations of the physician in counseling and treating in the field of sexuality.

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• Talking With Patients About Sexuality and Sexual Health
• Sex Therapy for Non-Sex Therapists

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• Mentored Activity (optional) : How to Consult About Sexuality

Module 10: Implementing Lifestyle Medicine

“People are generally better persuaded by the reasons which they have themselves discovered than by those which have come into the minds of others.” - Blaise Pascal

Competencies covered in this module:

1. Tools to promote health change.
2. Key clinical processes in lifestyle medicine.

Module 10 : Lesson 1: Health Promotion in Clinics and Practices

Learning Objectives

• Describe strategies for incorporating wellness into clinic, medical office, or other healthcare settings (wellness programs for health providers).
• Describe the key strategies for leveraging the interdisciplinary team to enhance health behavior change interventions.
• Describe how planned and group visits can optimize office visits to support lifestyle modification.

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• 4 Strategies for Promoting Healthy Lifestyles in Your Practice
• Physician Wellness: Preventing Resident and Fellow Burnout
• Ten principles of good interdisciplinary team work
• Leveraging Time With Lifestyle-Based Group Visits

• Employer Resources for Success
• Healthy Team Healthy U: A Prospective Validation of an Evidence-Based Worksite Health Promotion and Wellness Platform
• Ten Lessons in Collaboration
• Effects of a Multi-Disciplinary Lifestyle Intervention on Cardiometabolic Risk Factors in Young Women with Abdominal Obesity: A Randomised Controlled Trial
• Patient Experiences of a Theory-Based Lifestyle-Focused Group Treatment in the Prevention of Cardiovascular Diseases and Type 2 Diabetes
• Obesity: Are shared medical appointments part of the answer?

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Module 10 : Lesson 2: Key Clinical Processes in Lifestyle Medicine

Learning Objectives

• Describe screening and diagnostic tests relevant to lifestyle-related diseases.
• List components of the patient history and physical, with emphasis on lifestyle risk factors.
• Describe how to interpret the tests using evidence-based national guidelines.
• Demonstrate how to screen, diagnose, and monitor a lifestyle-related condition (case example).
• Describe appropriate situations for referring and collaborating with other health professionals, such as dieticians, health educators, fitness trainers, and psychologists.

Approximate time required for the readings for this lesson (at 144 words/minute): 1 hour

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• The role of primary health care in preventing the onset of chronic disease, with a particular focus on the lifestyle risk factors for obesity, tobacco and alcohol
• Screening for High Blood Pressure in Adults: Recommendation Statement
• Screening for Abnormal Blood Glucose and Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus: Recommendation Statement
• Comprehensive Adult New Patient Health History Questionnaire
• 2014 Evidence-Based Guideline for the Management of High Blood Pressure in Adults: Report From the Panel Members Appointed to the Eighth Joint National Committee (JNC8)
• Screening for and Diagnosing Diabetes
• Diabetes Mellitus Type 2
• Lifestyle Management of Adult Obesity
• 2006 Canadian clinical practice guidelines on the management and prevention of obesity in adults and children
• Adding Health Education Specialists to Your Practice

• Lifestyle Issues in Cardiac Health
• Nutrition Guideline Referral to Registered Dietitian

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Module 10 : Lesson 3: Strategies for Effective Office Systems to Plan Screenings, Follow Up on Test Results and Clinical Follow-Ups

Learning Objectives

• Cite strategies for effective office systems and office tools for tracking screening frequency and test results, and proactively prompting follow-up.
• Develop an action plan for implementing lifestyle medicine in clinical and personal settings by using tools and strategies for effective office systems.

Approximate time required for the readings for this lesson (at 144 words/minute): 1 hour

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• Committee Opinion: Tracking and Reminder Systems
• Automated Clinician Prompts and Referrals Facilitate Access to Counseling Services, Leading to Positive Behavior Changes Among Patients
• Comparative Effectiveness of Mailed Reminder Letters on Mammography Screening Compliance

• MCQ-writing activity (Optional)

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• Activity 9
• Enrichment Activity (optional): Commitment to Lifestyle Medicine

• Summary of the Course Peer Project (Optional)

Module 10: Lesson 4: Strategies to Obtain Information about Local Community Resources

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• Section 8. Identifying Community Assets and Resources

• Primary Health Care Resource Centre
• Health together: how community resources can enhance clinical practice

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Final Exam

• Final Exam

Course and Self Evaluation & Certificate

• Course Evaluations
• Self Evaluation
• Health Behaviors Survey