Publications by authors named "Tom Axelrod"

The COVID-19 pandemic is a demonstration of an unforeseen event that disrupts normal life routine and greatly affects medical training. With its outbreak, clinical studies in medical schools were discontinued throughout the country, and the pre-clinical studies channeled into online learning, like all other university teaching activities. Since similar situations occurred in most western countries, a methodological approach of online teaching is required - principles, goals and implementation, with reference to the tension between the duty of care versus the duty of maintaining the clinician's and student's health.

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  • By 2020, it's expected that lifestyle choices will contribute to two-thirds of global diseases, highlighting a gap in physician education on healthy behaviors.
  • Hebrew University created a 58-hour Lifestyle Medicine curriculum between 2010 and 2014 to address this gap, covering nutrition, exercise, smoking cessation, and health coaching practices.
  • A survey showed high acceptance of the curriculum among students, who felt empowered as coaches and expressed a willingness to improve their own health behaviors.
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