ArticleClinical obesity2024
An obesity medicine curriculum increases the obesity care self-efficacy of internal medicine residents in the primary care setting.
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- Effectiveness of Obesity Management Education for Healthcare Professionals: A Rapid Review and Meta-Analysis.Clinical obesity · 2026Pooled it
- Building an Obesity Medicine Workforce: Implementation of a Comprehensive Resident Training Pathway in an Underserved Care Environment.Journal of general internal medicine · 2026Article
- Screening, Diagnosis, Evaluation, and Staging of Obesity in Adults: Standards of Care in Overweight and Obesity-2026.BMJ open diabetes research & care · 2026Review
- Pharmacologic treatment of obesity in adults: Standards of care in overweight and obesity.BMJ open diabetes research & care · 2026Review
- An obesity care curriculum improves residents' self-efficacy and clinical practice habits.Obesity pillars · 2025Article
- Knowledge, attitudes, and practices in obesity among trained and in-training primary care providers in an urban safety-net hospital system.Obesity pillars · 2025Article
- The Patient's Journey in Obesity within the United States: An Exercise of Resilience against Disease.Life (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Review
- Pharmacologic Treatment of Obesity in Adults: Standards of Care in Overweight and Obesity.Diabetes, obesity, and cardiometabolic CAREReview
- Screening, Diagnosis, Evaluation, and Staging of Obesity in Adults: Standards of Care in Overweight and Obesity-2026.Diabetes, obesity, and cardiometabolic CAREReview
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Abstract
Primary care physicians (PCPs) report insufficient knowledge and training gaps in obesity care. Internal Medicine (IM) residency offers an opportunity to address this educational gap for future PCPs. We designed an innovative, multicomponent curriculum on obesity medicine (OM) in the primary care setting for IM residents. We then conducted a prospective, 6-month, two-arm study within two residency programs in Maryland evaluating feasibility (use, appropriateness for IM training, and satisfaction) of the curriculum as well as changes in self-efficacy within seven obesity care domains, assessed on 4-point scales (1-not at all confident to 4-very confident). One residency program received the curriculum and the other served as the control group. We recruited 35 IM residents to participate (17 intervention, 18 control). Among intervention residents, 42% used all curricular components; appropriateness and satisfaction with the curriculum were high. Compared with controls, intervention residents had statistically significant increases in five obesity care self-efficacy domains: nutrition (intervention 0.8 vs. control 0.2, p = .02), behaviour change (1.2 vs. 0.4, p < .01), weight-gain-promoting medications (0.8 vs. 0.1, p = .01), anti-obesity medications (1.2 vs. 0.5, p = .03), and bariatric surgical counselling (0.9 vs. 0.4, p = .03). There were no significant changes in physical activity or post-bariatric surgical care domains. Our OM curriculum is feasible with IM residents and increases residents' obesity care self-efficacy beyond what is achieved with usual IM training.
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