Table 4.

Provider Education: Statements That Reached Consensus.

Number a	Statement	Mean	Outliers
35	Lifestyle medicine should be a foundational component of all health professional education	8.8	1
36	Lifestyle medicine should be a foundational component of medical school, residency, and continuing medical education for primary care clinicians	8.8	0
37	Lifestyle medicine should be a foundational component of medical education, and continuing medical education, for NPs and PAs	8.5	1
38	Primary care clinicians should be trained in competencies for all 6 lifestyle medicine domains and in motivational interviewing skills that enhance a patient’s motivation to change, to prescribe appropriate interventions and effectively help patients improve health behaviors	8.1	1
39	Primary care clinicians require lifestyle medicine education, skill-building and knowledge of standard lifestyle medicine resources to effectively deliver lifestyle medicine	8.0	1
40	All primary care clinicians should be trained in lifestyle medicine and should deliver lifestyle medicine services on a routine basis for all patients as a foundational component for health maintenance and treatment of many chronic diseases	7.9	0

^aNumber in the initial list of candidate statements.