Phase 3 Advancing Lifestyle Medicine among all Health Professionals

Grantee: American College of Lifestyle Medicine

Year Funded: 2024

Amount: $75,000

Report Status: Report not posted

Related Content: none

Project Summary: Goals: To increase access to lifestyle medicine (LM) and close gaps in health equity by growing the LM workforce

Methodology: Through outreach and educational programming, LM education, tools and resources will be more widely distributed to the healthcare workforce, thus increasing the amount of healthcare workers throughout the United States who can utilize LM within their practice. Through academic and industry engagement and publications, policy makers, academia, health systems, and funders will gain access to information about the LM workforce composition, current LM work environments, and what the future LM workforce might look like.

Anticipated outcomes:

-Through ACLM’s Partial and Full Academic Pathways, increased student access to health professions programs throughout the US offering educational content aligning with the 2022 Core Competencies in Lifestyle Medicine

-Delivery of tailored LM resource packages including high-quality training and complementary patient-facing material for workforce segments essential to public health including community health workers (CHWs), nurses, and community health specialists

-Increased numbers of qualified healthcare professionals taking the ACLM certification exam

-Research publications strategically placed to inform healthcare policy makers, health funders, and health professions faculty about the LM workforce and educational needs of this multidisciplinary group of healthcare workers