Learning Objectives

1. Discuss the way that traditional residency education does not adequately address lifestyle medicine.

2. Describe a novel approach to promoting exercise as medicine in a residency office setting.

3. Discuss how a national lifestyle medicine education program is being integrated into a family medicine residency education curriculum.

4. Discuss how this integration of exercise an lifestyle medicine into residency education benefits patients, residents and residency recruitment of future family physicians.

Abstract

 This short presentation will discuss the ways in which traditional residency education does not adequately address exercise in the prevention and treatment of medical illnesses as well as lifestyle medicine in general. To address this issues we will discuss a novel approach to promoting exercise as medicine in a residency office setting, and how we are integrating a national lifestyle medicine education into a family medicine residency education curriculum.  We will then discuss how this approach works for the benefit of patients, residents and residency recruitment of future family physicians.