ST. LOUIS (PRWEB)
October 12, 2022

The American College of Lifestyle Medicine (ACLM) today announced 34 recipients of the Dr. Steven Turner Residency Director and Faculty Scholarships awarded to residency directors, associate directors, and faculty members interested in adopting the Lifestyle Medicine Residency Curriculum (LMRC) into their residency training programs.

The LMRC is a comprehensive, applicable and flexible curriculum that prepares residents to make evidence-based, lifestyle behavior interventions and, upon completion of the educational and practicum components of the curriculum, qualify to sit for the American Board of Lifestyle Medicine (ABLM) certification exam.

The LMRC was first piloted in July 2018 within four sites across five programs, with 80 residents enrolled. As of Sept. 1, 2022, the LMRC is now being implemented in 202 residency programs across 96 sites, with 1,195 faculty and 4,183 residents enrolled.

“The rapid growth of the Lifestyle Medicine Residency Curriculum in residency programs across the U.S. reflects the urgent realization that we can no longer continue to simply manage symptoms of chronic disease through ever-increasing quantities of medications and procedures and instead must finally start to address the root causes of chronic disease,” said ACLM President Cate Collings, MD, FACC, MS, DipABLM. “Residency programs integrating the lifestyle medicine curriculum ensure that physicians they train develop the knowledge and skills to make evidence-based, lifestyle behavior interventions with patients and positions those physicians to be leaders in the fast-growing field of lifestyle medicine. I congratulate the recipients of the 2022 scholarships and thank them for their interest and leadership.”

The scholarships are primarily available to family medicine, internal medicine, preventive medicine, physical medicine and rehabilitation, and occupational medicine residency leaders. However, residency leaders representing all specialty types are welcome to apply.

The scholarships, which were supported by the Steven Turner Residency Director and Faculty Scholarship Fund and the Ardmore Institute of Health, provide one year of ACLM membership, registration fees for the ACLM annual conference, the ACLM “Foundations of Lifestyle Medicine Board Review Course,” and the ABLM Certification Exam.

Applications for 2023 LMRC scholarships will open in early 2023.

Lifestyle medicine is a growing medical specialty that applies evidence-based therapeutic lifestyle interventions in six pillars: whole food, plant-predominant nutrition, physical activity, restorative sleep, stress management, risky substance avoidance and positive social connection, to treat conditions like cardiovascular diseases, type 2 diabetes and obesity.

“Modern medical education does not do a great job teaching practical evidence-based nutrition principles and other lifestyle medicine modalities,” said Kevin Wile, MD, resident faculty at Penn State Health and LMRC scholarship recipient. “I have always wanted to develop a stronger foundation in lifestyle behavior interventions and am excited that this scholarship will help provide me the resources I need to not only develop that foundation but better teach these incredibly important concepts to residents and medical students.”

The LMRC consists of both educational and practicum components. Its educational component includes 40 hours of interactive virtual didactic material along with 60 hours of application activities designed to be completed over a one- to three-year time period. The practicum component includes 400 lifestyle medicine-related patient encounters, 20 hours of intensive therapeutic lifestyle change (ITLC) program experience and 20 hours of group facilitation experience.

Programs integrating the LMRC participate in a supportive online community to share resources and find answers to common implementation questions, as well as take part in frequent support group meetings to help navigate through the LMRC implementation process.

St. Luke’s University Health Network – Anderson Campus is in its fourth year of implementing the LMRC into the family medicine, internal medicine, and now psychiatry residency programs, said Meagan Grega, MD, FACLM, DipABLM.

“The practical, experiential knowledge gained by the residents on how to support patients in shifting to healthier eating habits, regularly including physical activity in their daily lives, prioritizing restorative sleep, exploring ways to manage stress and nourish social connections while avoiding risky substances, are critical tools for their future career – both for their patients and for themselves,” Dr. Grega said. “We have noticed our residents making healthy changes in their own lives, which has affected the culture of our whole institution for the better. During a time when national surveys have found more than 60% of physicians suffering symptoms of burnout, the LMRC curriculum provides a space to remind us of the importance of nurturing wellness and resilience. I am thrilled to see the rapid expansion of the LMRC across the country, and hope that it will become a foundational component of all medical training.”

2022 LMRC scholarship recipients

Ashley Brown, MD, MPH, FAWM

University of Nebraska Medical Center/Offutt Air Force Base

Family Medicine Residency Program

Lauren Messina, PhD, LCMFT

Human Performance Resources by Consortium for Health and Military Performance (CHAMP)

Charin Hanlon, MD

Novant Health New Hanover Regional Medical Center

Internal Medicine Residency Program

Brooke La Duca, MD

Long Beach Memorial Family Medicine Residency

Family Medicine Residency Program

Paul Schaefer, MD, PhD

The University of Toledo

Family Medicine Residency Program

Miyeon Oh, MD

Rochester Regional Health General Hospital

Internal Medicine Program

Cara Hall, MD, CAQSM

Keck Medicine of USC

Family Medicine Residency Program

Paula Cook, MD

St. Marks Family Medicine Residency

Family Medicine Residency Program

Karim Ghobrial-Sedky, MD, MSc

Cooper University Health Care Psychiatry Residency Program

Michael Pratt, MD, MPH

Rutgers Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences Institute (EOHSI)

Occupational and Environmental Medicine Residency Program

Werther Marciales, MD

Manatee Memorial Hospital

Internal Medicine Residency Program

Clarissa Hoff, MD, MPH, FACPM

Tulane University School of Medicine

Preventive Medicine Residency Program

Samuel Clarke, MD, FAAFP

Self Regional Healthcare

Family Medicine Residency Program

Matt Symkowick, MD

Kaiser Permanente Northern California, Napa Solano

Family Medicine Residency Program

Timothy Yu, MD

Virgina Commonwealth University (VCU) Bon Secours

Family Medicine Residency Program and Sports Medicine Fellowship

Supratik Rayamajhi, MD

Sparrow Hospital/Michigan State University

Internal Medicine Residency Program

Christina Shenko, MD, FAAFP

Middlesex Health

Family Medicine Residency Program

Chandramohan Batra, MD

Iowa Medical Education Consortium

Baran Onder, MD

Kaiser Permanente Greater Sacramento Valley

Family Medicine Residency Program

Sean McCann, DO

Lakeland Regional Health

Family Medicine Residency Program

Eun Ji Kim, MD

Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell

Brea Bondi-Boyd, MD

Kaiser Permanente Greater Sacramento Valley

Family Medicine Residency Program

Kathryn Holder, MD

Kaiser Permanente Northern California, Napa Solano

Family Medicine Residency Program

Marianna Worczak, MD

The University of Vermont Health Network – Champlain Valley Physicians Hospital

(CVPH)

Family Medicine Residency Program

Richard Steward, DO

St. John’s Episcopal Hospital

Family Medicine Residency Program

Elise Hogan, MD, MPH

ChristianaCare

Family Medicine Residency Program

Peter Pendergrass, MD, MPH

University of Texas Health Science Center at Tyler

Preventive Medicine Residency Program

Stefanos Kales, MD, MPH

Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health (HSPH)

Occupational Medicine Residency Program

Jen Johnson, DO

Riverside Regional Medical Center

Obstetrics/Gynecology Residency Program

Tara Lane, MD

Northside Hospital Gwinnett

Internal Medicine Residency Program

Linda Mcghee, MD

University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences Northwest

Family Medicine Residency Program

Peter Martin, DO

Nellis Air Force Base

Family Medicine Residency Program

Philip Palmer, MD, FAAFP

INTEGRIS Health

Great Plains Family Medicine Residency Program

Kevin Wile, MD

Penn State Health

Family and Community Medicine Residency Program

About ACLM–The American College of Lifestyle Medicine is the nation’s medical professional society advancing lifestyle medicine as the foundation for a redesigned, value-based and equitable healthcare delivery system, leading to whole person health. ACLM educates, equips, empowers and supports its members through quality, evidence-based education, certification and research to identify and eradicate the root cause of chronic disease, with a clinical outcome goal of health restoration as opposed to disease management.