High Level Medically Oriented Lifestyle Medicine Curriculum

Grantee: UMass Chan Medical School (fbo Rippe Lifestyle Institute)

Year Funded: 2024

Amount: $200,000

Report Status: In Process

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Project Summary: The goal of this project is to develop an academically based lifestyle medicine curriculum at a major medical school for potential utilization in medical schools across the country.  While a variety of curricular materials are currently available in lifestyle medicine, none have been developed with significant participation of a major medical school.  Acceptance into mainstream medical schools is critically important to help imbed lifestyle medicine principles into all levels of leading institutions.  UMass Chan Medical School, with Dr. Rippe’s assistance, has made a commitment to develop an evidence based curriculum for undergraduate medical students, residents and fellows and imbed and test this curriculum at these levels at the medical school.  

This curriculum will be developed in consultation with the Dean of UMass Chan Medical School and the Chief of Medicine as well as the Directors of the Categorical and Primary Care Residency Programs and Cardiovascular Fellowship Program.  In addition, various educational committees at UMass Chan Medical School would be involved.  The curriculum will also be developed and pilot tested at the UMass Chan Medical School interprofessional Center for Experiential Learning and Simulation (iCELS). 

This curriculum will be developed in conjunction with the publication of the 4th Edition of Dr. Rippe’s comprehensive Lifestyle Medicine textbook which will be released in August 2024.