CME Available: Religion and Spirituality in Lifestyle Medicine
Religion and Spirituality in Lifestyle Medicine was published in 2024 and co-authored by AIH President and CEO, Dr. Ron Stout. “Decades of research now support the positive relationship of religion/spirituality (R/S) with physical health, mental health, morbidity, and mortality. While lifestyle medicine (LM) practitioners often recognize R/S as important, they can face common challenges of how to integrate R/S into their holistic, patient-centered care. To help, this article presents a faith-practice framework, as a starting point for considering incorporating R/S into LM practice—in light of common concerns and challenges, as a guide for patient-centered care through adjusting lifestyle prescriptions to accommodate individualized R/S beliefs and practices for improved health behavior and outcomes, and as an encouragement to stimulate openness for positive, thoughtful discussion into the future of R/S in LM practice and research.”
Offered by the American College of Lifestyle Medicine, this CME provides the article and one quiz for one CME/CE credit. The learning objectives include:
Define and differentiate between religion, religiosity, secular spirituality, and spirituality
State the percentage of adults who report that religion is an important part of their lives
Describe how religion and spirituality fit within whole health models and among lifestyle medicine pillars
Identify examples of faith-placed vs. faith-based (faith-recognized and faith-integrated) practices within communities and clinics
Recall the proposed basic decision tree questions around religion and spirituality for patient-centered lifestyle medicine clinical care
