Including lifestyle medicine in undergraduate medical curricula
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Including lifestyle medicine in undergraduate medical curricula
Purpose Currently, there is no model to integrate the discipline of lifestyle medicine (LM) into undergraduate medical education. Furthermore, there are no guidelines, validated assessment tools, or evaluation or implementation plans in place. Background The World Health Organization predicts that by 2020, two-thirds of disease worldwide will be the result of poor lifestyle choices. Fewer than ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Medical Education Online
سال: 2015
ISSN: 1087-2981
DOI: 10.3402/meo.v20.26150