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Virtual Workshop: Lifestyle Medicine Shared Medical Appointments - Nuts and Bolts for Implementation into Real-World Practice

Wednesday, October 30, 2024
2:00 PM – 5:00 PM ET
Location: Virtual
Earn 3 CME | 3 CNE/CE | 3 CPE
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Shared medical appointments are medical appointments provided to multiple patients in a group setting led by a single physician or other health professional, and may include patient education, counseling, and group support. Administering shared medical appointments is an essential skill in lifestyle medicine practice. The Lifestyle Medicine Residency Curriculum requires 20 hours spent in group visits. The USPSTF recommends that those with impaired glucose tolerance and with overweight/obesity and certain risk factors receive intensive multi-component lifestyle intervention, which can be delivered using shared medical appointments. Shared medical appointments have been endorsed by the American Academy of Family Physicians as “a proven, effective method for enhancing a patient’s self-care of chronic conditions, increasing patient satisfaction, and improving outcomes”. Lifestyle medicine shared medical appointments provide an opportunity to provide lifestyle medicine intervention to a larger number of patients, and therefore reduce chronic disease. Therefore, it is essential for lifestyle medicine certified physicians and health professionals to become proficient in the delivery of this modality of treatment.

Learning Objectives:

  • Describe clinical practice models commonly used in the implementation of group visits and shared medical appointments, including reimbursement structures.
  • Discuss common barriers and facilitators to the implementation of lifestyle medicine shared medical appointment programs.
  • Determine how shared medical appointment visits can be structured, including examples from multiple health systems.