Laying an Early Foundation: Lifestyle Medicine Pre-Professional Education (LMPP) Member Interest Group.

Just as lifestyle medicine is the necessary foundation for true health care reform, lifestyle medicine competencies should be the foundation for health education. Although lifestyle medicine education may benefit a health professional at any stage in their education or career, evidence-based undergraduate lifestyle medicine education for future health professionals shifts the perspective of health and health care delivery. Educating health preprofessionals in associate, bachelor's, master's, and other preprofessional healthcare training programs is of paramount importance due to the interdisciplinary nature of lifestyle medicine.

Including Lifestyle Medicine in Medical Education: Rationale for American College of Preventive Medicine/American Medical Association Resolution 959.

Introduced by the American College of Preventive Medicine and released by the American Medical Association House of Delegates in 2017, Resolution 959 (I-17) supports policies and mechanisms that incentivize and/or provide funding for the inclusion of lifestyle medicine education and social determinants of health in undergraduate, graduate and continuing medical education. Resolution 959 was passed to help address the current healthcare costs of lifestyle-related, noncommunicable chronic diseases that exert a devastating economic burden on the U.S.

Lifestyle Medicine Education Collaborative (LMEd): "Champions of Change" Medical School Leaders Workshop.

The Lifestyle Medicine Education Collaborative (LMEd) hosted the "Champions of Change" Medical School Leaders workshop at the 2017 American College of Lifestyle Medicine annual conference. Presentations focused on the following: (1) accelerating adoption and implementation of lifestyle medicine (LM) education in medical schools through collaboration and action networks that produce positive results, (2) showcasing medical school champions and their work in LM education leadership, and (3) helping participants create a roadmap for how to engage with LMEd and implement LM education in their own medical school.

Medical students as health coaches: Implementation of a student-initiated Lifestyle Medicine curriculum.

Background: By 2020, the World Health Organization predicts that two-thirds of all diseases worldwide will be the result of lifestyle choices. Physicians often do not counsel patients about healthy behaviors, and lack of training has been identified as one of the barriers. Between 2010 and 2014, Hebrew University developed and implemented a 58-h Lifestyle Medicine curriculum spanning five of the 6 years of medical school.

Advancing Lifestyle Medicine Education in Undergraduate Medical School Curricula Through the Lifestyle Medicine Education Collaborative (LMEd).

Physicians are uniquely positioned to stem the tide of the world's top lifestyle-related diseases; however, most are not trained to provide effective patient care. The Lifestyle Medicine Education Collaborative (LMEd) has a plan that is a comprehensive and sustainable approach to policies, programs, and initiatives to increase graduating US medical students' knowledge and application of lifestyle medicine. LMEd's strategic plan is to (1) provide high-quality curricular material; (2) solicit support of medical school deans, critical administration, and faculty; (3) influence federal and state policy; (4) develop and conduct assessment; and (5) support medical students as lifestyle medicine champions.