Motivational Interviewing: Addressing Interest Among Health Professions Students.

Background And Objectives: Motivational interviewing (MI) is a patient-centered approach to behavior change counseling that is used among health professionals across multiple disciplines. However, MI training has yet to be broadly offered to health professional (HP) students. This study aimed to evaluate student interest in MI and the efficacy of an MI workshop to assess whether MI training should be incorporated into HP curricula.

Care of Cancer Survivors: Nutrition and Physical Activity.

A minority of cancer survivors meet guideline recommendations for nutrition and physical activity. There is a high prevalence of obesity in adult cancer survivors. It has been shown to increase cancer recurrence risk and be associated with poorer survival.

Planting the Seeds of Change: Growing Lifestyle Medicine Interest Groups With the Donald A. Pegg Award.

The practice of Lifestyle medicine (LM) focuses on helping patients make healthy choices to prevent and treat disease. While such interventions are considered first-line treatment for many diseases, many medical schools have not yet been able to include lifestyle medicine classes in the core curriculum but most are able to offer a parallel curriculum that does not interfere with the schedule of core classes. Lifestyle Medicine Interest Groups (LMIGs) are being created around the country and around the globe.