"It Takes a Village"- A Conversation with the Interprofessional Diabetes Clinic at the ECU Health Family Medicine Center.

Interprofessional collaboration and shared understanding positively impact both patients and providers. Current recommendations from the CDC and experts agree that collaboration between diverse professions is necessary to improve patient outcomes and empower patients to selfmanage their chronic conditions.

Creating Teams of Family Medicine Residents and High School Culinary Students Reduces Some Barriers to Implementing a Culinary Medicine Hands-On Workshop.

Background: Barriers to implementation of culinary medicine in resident training include lack of facilities, administrative support, and community engagement.

Activity: Twenty-five family medicine residents were teamed with 17 high school culinary arts students to prepare recipes aligned with the Mediterranean diet (MED) and the USDA low, moderate, and liberal cost food plans.

Results: The workshop took place in the high school teaching kitchens.

Sharing the 'weight' of obesity management in primary care: integration of registered dietitian nutritionists to provide intensive behavioural therapy for obesity for Medicare patients.

Background: Clinical provision of intensive behavioral therapy for obesity (IBTO) has been a reimbursable treatment for obesity since 2012. However, gaps remain in the literature regarding its impact on patient outcomes.

Objectives: The primary objective of this study was to examine the integration of registered dietitian nutritionist provided IBTO into a primary care setting and evaluate clinic outcomes for Medicare Part B beneficiaries.

A "Hands-On" Thread, Part of a Medical Nutrition Education Curriculum.

Required "hands-on" medical nutrition education sessions are woven through years 1-3 at the Brody School of Medicine. An elective opportunity also is available for third and fourth year students. These active learning sessions focus on diet and chronic disease, including obesity, prevention, and treatment.

Validation of a combined health literacy and numeracy instrument for patients with type 2 diabetes.

Objectives: This study aimed to validate a new consolidated measure of health literacy and numeracy (health literacy scale [HLS] plus the subjective numeracy scale [SNS]) in patients with type 2 diabetes (T2DM).

Methods: A convenience sample (N = 102) of patients with T2DM was recruited from an academic family medicine center in the southeastern US between September-December 2017. Participants completed a questionnaire that included the composite HLS/SNS (22 questions) and a commonly used objective measure of health literacy-S-TOFHLA (40 questions).