An obesity care curriculum improves residents' self-efficacy and clinical practice habits.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Most residency programs lack formal curricula on obesity care leaving physicians unprepared to treat obesity. After conducting a targeted needs assessment, we refined a previously developed online obesity care curriculum and determined its effect on resident physicians' outcomes.

Methods

This study employed a prospective, non-randomized, pre-post design to evaluate the impact of an online obesity care curriculum on resident physicians' obesity care self-efficacy and frequency of self-reported clinical practice habits. Participants included internal medicine, family medicine, preventive medicine, and internal medicine-pediatrics residents. The curriculum was offered as a standalone experience ('curriculum only') or part of a 10-day obesity medicine elective ('curri

SUBMITTER: Laudenslager M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12639459 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature