Lifestyle Medicine Residency Curriculum

Our Goal

Provide training to residents to advance evidence-based lifestyle medicine to treat, reverse, and prevent non-communicable, chronic diseases.

Video Overview of the Preventive Medicine Residency Program

Objectives

1. Provide our residents with the unique opportunity at the University of Maryland preventive medicine residency program to learn lifestyle medicine and integrate lifestyle medicine into their profession if desired.
2. Provide comprehensive lifestyle medicine training via modules, didactic sessions, various lifestyle medicine activities, direct clinical lifestyle medicine, and intensive therapeutic lifestyle change programs.
3. Train our residents to become experts in the six pillars of lifestyle medicine which include a whole food, plant-predominant eating pattern, physical activity, restorative sleep, stress management, avoidance of risky substances and positive social connections.
4. Provide one on one faculty guidance that upon graduation residents who complete the curriculum will be eligible to take the lifestyle medicine board exam.

Expectations

All residents will receive some component of lifestyle medicine training within our program.  Residents who are interested in learning more lifestyle medicine may opt in and complete the lifestyle medicine curriculum.

More information can be found at: https://lifestylemedicine.org/residency-lmrc/

HRSA Training Grant
Maternal and Child Health

Primary Goal

Increase the number of primary care physicians trained in population health with a focus on maternal health outcomes

Objectives

Develop partnerships between academia, primary care delivery sites or systems, and community-based organizations to carry out education and training programs for primary care physicians who desire additional competencies and experiences in community prevention.

Educate and train primary care residents (who are board-eligible or board-certified in family medicine, general internal medicine, general pediatrics, or combined internal medicine and pediatrics) to broaden their scope of services in community prevention and maternal health care.

Demonstrate how outcomes in maternal health can be improved through adoption of community prevention training in primary care training and practice

Expectations

Requirement for practicum rotation at Maryland Department of Health Maternal and Child Health Bureau with participation in statewide maternal mortality review.
 
Options for maternal-health related projects at UMMC, VAMC, local health departments, federal agencies, and clinical work in Women’s Health

Podcast

Episode 104: All About Preventive Medicine

October 27, 2023

In this episode of , preventive medicine physicians and leaders Dr. Marissa Khajavi and Dr. Cara Dooley, shine a light on preventive medicine, how to know if it might be a good fit for you, what different roles in the field might look like, and how to learn more about it.