Developing and implementing an obesity medicine fellowship program: Experience at a U.S. academic medical center.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Obesity is a prevalent and complex chronic disease yet physicians' training in obesity care is often inadequate. Fellowship training in obesity medicine is now available at multiple academic medical centers; however, there has been limited description and evaluation of these programs to date. Therefore, this article describes our curriculum development process and fellowship program implementation experience at a U.S. academic medical center.

Methods

This was a structured, multi-phase curriculum development study guided by established obesity medicine competencies and certification standards. We used a six-step approach to curriculum development to guide our design with content informed by the Obesity Medicine Education Collaborative competencies, American Board o

SUBMITTER: Chaudhry ZW 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12424414 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature