Table 3.

Road Map for Practical Implementation of Lifestyle Medicine Curriculum.

Analysis and Planning Phase • Ensure that the medical educational context at your institute is appropriate for lifestyle medicine curriculum • Consider the region and local community health needs • Check if the teaching and learning culture support the adoption of new educational goals • Involve the curriculum stakeholders • Include lifestyle medicine content expert Design and Development Phase • Align the lifestyle medicine goals with the overall medical program goals • Use validated standards to determine the lifestyle medicine goals and objectives (For example, “Physician Competencies for Prescribing Lifestyle Medicine” (JAMA, 2010)17) • Develop the lifestyle medicine curriculum with the appropriate model for the main curriculum (discipline-based, system-based, blocks, etc) • Use educational strategy that is appropriate for your institute mission and vision Implementation Phase • Clearly communicate lifestyle medicine required graduation goals and objectives • Encourage collaboration between lifestyle medicine content expert and biomedical/clinical science faculty to plan, integrate, and deliver content within their module, disciplines, or sessions • Provide opportunities for Interprofessional education and community based activities within the lifestyle medicine training • Apply multiple assessment strategies to monitor and evaluate students’ performance throughout the curriculum, for example, formative and summative assessments Evaluation Phase • Use students’ feedback to evaluate and improve the curriculum • Systematically collect and review assessment data to improve student learning outcomes • Conduct curriculum mapping to ensure that lifestyle medicine curriculum support the program-level goals and objectives