Improving residents' clinical approach to obesity: impact of a multidisciplinary didactic curriculum.

ABSTRACT:

Background/objectives

Obesity has been declared a 21st century pandemic by WHO. Yet surveys reveal physicians-in-training are uncomfortable managing obesity. One major barrier is the lack of residency education on obesity management. This study incorporates an obesity-specific didactic curriculum into an internal medicine (IM) residency programme and assesses its impact on residents' knowledge, attitudes, practice behaviours, and clinical outcomes in patients with obesity.

Methods

The intervention consisted of four, 1 h, obesity-specific lectures in the University of Florida Resident Noon Conference. Lectures were taught by multidisciplinary experts and offered to 75 IM residents every 2 weeks from 5 November 2010 to 17 December 2010. Impact on IM residents' knowledge and at

SUBMITTER: Acosta A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7157760 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature