Obesity education in medical schools, residencies, and fellowships throughout the world: a systematic review.

ABSTRACT: Obesity is pandemic throughout the world, and there is concern that physicians are inadequately trained to treat their patients with obesity despite its prevalence. This review explores obesity education in medical students, resident, and fellow physicians throughout the world from 2005 to 2018. Previous reviews on obesity education were conducted before 2011, focused solely on medical students, and only explored obesity education in the United States. We systematically searched MEDLINE, EMBASE, PsycINFO, and ERIC databases for studies which included the search terms "obesity education" AND either "medical students", "residency", or "fellowship" that met PICOS (Population, Interventions, Comparators, Outcomes, Study Design) criteria for articles published in English for obesity education a

SUBMITTER: Mastrocola MR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7002222 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature