Incorporating Lifestyle Medicine Into Your Academic Institution and Hospital Setting: The Key is Connection

The key to spreading lifestyle medicine is connection: connection with colleagues, connection with research, connection with CME, connection with students, and connection with community.

The American College of Lifestyle Medicine (ACLM) is making it as easy as possible for you to introduce, develop, and incorporate lifestyle medicine programs in your academic institutions and hospital settings. One of the first opportunities to share is the free “Introduction to Lifestyle Medicine and Food is Medicine Essentials” CME/CE course bundle which provides 5.5 credits for physicians and health professionals. This Essentials bundle includes our “Introduction to Lifestyle Medicine,” “Food As Medicine: Nutrition for Prevention and Longevity,” and “Food As Medicine: Nutrition for Treatment and Risk Reduction” courses. By connecting with your colleagues and team members at your medical or healthcare professional schools and sharing this resource with them, you make friends and create opportunities to discuss the power of lifestyle and food and nutrition prescriptions. Sharing this resource in an email or as an announcement during Grand Rounds, division meetings, or presentations helps you to bring lifestyle medicine into the room and the conversation with your co-workers.