Lifestyle Medicine
TITLE: Lifestyle Medicine
COURSE NO.: SOMN 701
DEPARTMENT: Psychiatry and Family Medicine
DURATION: 2 semesters
ACADEMIC DIRECTOR: Angele McGrady, Ph.D., MEd, LPCC (Responsible for grading) Angele.mcgrady@utoledo.edu; 419-383-5653
ELECTIVE COORDINATOR: Angele McGrady, Ph.D. MEd, LPCC
FACULTY PARTICIPANTS: Angele McGrady, Ph.D., MEd, LPCC
Professor, Department of Psychiatry
419-383-5653
Julie Brennan, Ph.D., R.D., L.D.
Professor, Director of Behavioral
Health
Department of Family Medicine
Amy Riese, M.D.
Assistant Professor, Department
of Psychiatry
Jamie Dowling, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Department
of Psychiatry
SEMESTERS AVAILABLE: Fall and Spring
NUMBER OF STUDENTS: 30 per semester
LOCATIONS: UTMC
GENERAL DESCRIPTION:
This elective is designed to introduce first and second year medical students to the
fundamentals of life style medicine, including physical activity, nutrition and stress
management. The major contemporary physical and emotional illnesses are strongly influenced
by the choices that people make and the actions that result from those choices. Current
literature strongly supports the roles of behavior and personal decision making in
health and illness. This elective will present the student with evidenced based lifestyle
recommendations for themselves and for their future patients. Students will have the
opportunity to work with peers and faculty in assessing their own lifestyle, setting
goals and then designing a program to make one lifestyle change in the semester. Total
time requirement will be a minimum of 10 hours.
EDUCATIONAL OBJECTIVES:
- Define lifestyle medicine and its components. (EPOs: MK-7)
- Evaluate the key elements of lifestyle (activity, nutrition and reactions to stress) that affect health and illness (EPOs: MK-4, MK-2; MK-3)
- Establish the key elements of goal setting (EPOs: PBL-1)
- Design and implement a plan for personal change in one of the domains of lifestyle medicine. (EPOs: PB-1; IPC-2 PBL-3)
- Summarize general guidelines for prescribing lifestyle changes to patients whose physical problems and emotional distress are affected by their lifestyle (EPOs: IPC-2, IPC-3)
METHODS OF TEACHING:
- Lectures/presentation on topics relevant to lifestyle medicine.
- Feedback on current lifestyle and comparison to norms
- Peer to peer teaching/learning; group activity
- Cases to test skills in designing lifestyle recommendations
- Recommended reading
METHODS OF STUDENT EVALUATION:
- Documentation of a minimum of 10 hours of activity.
- Attendance at 4 out of 4 lectures/discussions.
- Completion of goal setting assignment
- Completion of assessment of physical activity, nutrition and current stress
- Completion of prescription lifestyle change assignment using cases provided by faculty
ELECTIVE EVALUATION: Students will be given the opportunity to evaluate their experience and make recommendations to the academic director and teaching faculty
PREREQUISITES: First or second-year medical student in good academic standing.
ECC Approved
July 2023