Professional Identity Formation and Population Health: a qualitative study of medical students' experience of Lifestyle Medicine and Prevention.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Healthcare systems worldwide are facing challenges on multiple fronts: ageing demographics, multimorbidity, staff burnout and persistent health inequalities. There is growing recognition of the need for prevention and population health within education and training programmes. Yet population health has been historically challenging to integrate into clinical-facing curricula. A novel programme of learning was introduced at Imperial College School of Medicine (London, UK). "Lifestyle Medicine and Prevention" (LMAP) comprises two modules and is a core element of learning across the first two years of undergraduate medical training. In these two modules, medical students explore how lifestyle factors, behaviour and the wider determinants of health influence health outcomes

SUBMITTER: Ogier A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12607180 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature