Table 3.

Suggestions for Including More LM Based on Readiness for Change for Medical and Health Professional Schools and Programs

Stage of change	Suggestions
Precontemplation	•Start a Lifestyle Medicine Interest Group (LMIG) with at least 1 interested faculty and 1 student leader.
	•Offer to help with case presentations in your specialty such as cardiology, endocrinology, or oncology.
Contemplation	•Start an LMIG.
	•Talk to fellow faculty members to discuss how LM could be included in current cases or course presentations that cover heart disease, diabetes, hypertension, metabolic syndrome, obesity, dementia, cancer, and other lifestyle-related chronic conditions.
	•Invite colleagues with expertise in LM to speak or invite speakers from outside your academic center to deliver presentations on the 6 pillars and behavior change.
	•Inquire about longitudinal curricular themes or threads.
Preparation	•Use readymade LM content and curricula available through ACLM and other organizations.
	•Evaluate and/or advocate for local needs assessments for LM in your community.
	•Build relationships among LM experts, course and clerkship directors, and educational leaders.
Action	•Evaluate and enhance course offerings.
	•Consider adding an elective in one of the 6 pillars if there is not one already offered at the school.
	•Propose adding LM as a longitudinal theme in collaboration with curriculum committees/deans of education.
Maintenance	•Evaluate the LM courses, themes, and/or graduate questionnaire feedback. Are the students translating knowledge into clinical practice? What is most helpful to them? What would the students like to see more of in their medical school years?
	•Consider offering a masters in LM.

Abbreviations: ACLM, American College of Lifestyle Medicine; LM, lifestyle medicine.