MSWeight: Medical Students Learning Weight Management Counseling Skills
Medical educators designed the MSWeight curriculum to teach weight management counseling to future physicians and address the muffled discussion about obesity in U.S. health education…
OSCE for Assessing Resident Competency in Weight Loss Counseling
Medical educators developed and implemented an objective structured clinical examination (OSCE) for the assessment of resident physician weight loss counseling. The skills checklist allows for…
Obesity OSCE Examiner Checklist
A sample OSCE examiner checklist for obesity counseling. This checklist was developed by faculty members from the Family Medicine Residency Program, PHCC-HMC (Qatar), during the PGY(4)…
Obesity Medicine Education Collaborative (OMEC) Obesity Competencies
The Obesity Medicine Education Collaborative (OMEC) has developed an instructional toolkit to help educators implement the obesity-focused competencies in a variety of educational environments. They…
Flipchart Engagement Tool for Patients with Obesity
Developed by expert NPs to support education of patients with overweight and obesity, Let’s Talk: Weight & Your Well-being, is a valuable engagement tool. …
Obesity Summit for Medical Trainees
The authors describe a model for an innovative, extramural, immersive approach to educate trainees on the various aspects of obesity management. Obesity-related topics were reviewed…
Health Professionals Obesity Prevention Education (HOPE) Curriculum
The HOPE Curriculum was a web-based, multidisciplinary curriculum that educated pediatric clinicians on health consequences of childhood obesity, screening techniques to identify those at risk,…
BalancedView: Addressing Weight Bias & Stigma in Health Care
BalancedView is an online learning resource designed to raise awareness about weight bias and stigma in health care and to help health care professionals reduce…
Change Talk: Childhood Obesity
An interactive role-play simulation for health professionals that builds their motivational interviewing skills to lead real-life conversations with parents and their children about healthy weight and childhood…
Obesity Image Banks
A collection of free image banks containing respectful images of individuals with obesity for use in educational materials and related publications. These galleries can help…
Talking with Patients about Weight Management
A podcast of simulated clinic encounters dealing with motivational interviewing and weight management in different social contexts. Topics covered include: … how to ask about a patient’s…
Insights into the Patient Population with Obesity: Assessment and Treatment
The Obesity Algorithm® is an educational tool to help health care providers both understand the complexity of the disease of obesity and implement effective, evidence-based obesity…
Rethink Obesity: Resources for Healthcare Professionals
The aim of this resource is to present a foundation for these techniques that will enable providers to have an effective consultation around weight loss…
KNIGHTS Student-Run Free Clinic
This student-run free clinic is an extracurricular program designed to help medical students learn to assess, treat and counsel on lifestyle changes for patients with…
Goldring Center for Culinary Medicine at Tulane University (GCCM)
Through innovative nutrition curriculum and hands-on training in the culinary arts, GCCM seeks to better prepare future physicians to serve and heal patients and communities. ***Winner…
Healthy Homes, Healthy Futures: An Obesity-Centered Home Visitation Curriculum for Pediatric Residents
This curriculum can be used with any resident in any year of training to help teach about the multifactorial causes of obesity as well as…