The impact of primary care resident physician training on patient weight loss at 12 months.

Objective: It is unclear whether training physicians to counsel obese patients leads to weight loss. This study assessed whether a 5-h multimodal longitudinal obesity curriculum for residents on the basis of the 5As (assess, advise, agree, assist, and arrange) was associated with weight loss in their obese patients.

Design And Methods: Twenty-three primary care internal medicine residents were assigned by rotation schedule to intervention (curriculum) or control groups.