State of lifestyle medicine education in Saudi medical schools: A descriptive study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Lifestyle medicine (LM) is a patient-centric, evidence-based clinical practice supporting adopting and sustaining of healthy behaviours and improving health-related living standards. Unfortunately, even in developed nations, medical curricula have largely ignored the LM concepts. Some LM components have been incorporated into the medical curriculum in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia to determine the general status of teaching LM competency domains in undergraduate curricula in medical colleges.

Methods

A cross-sectional, descriptive survey was conducted in English and distributed from January to March 2022. In this study, only administrative position holders were included. The administrative directors (such as deans, vice-deans, and program directors) play a significa

SUBMITTER: Almansour M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11309438 | biostudies-literature | 2024

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature