Weight First
Steering Committee
Chair
Caroline M. Apovian, MD
Gastroenterology
Boston University
Training Faculty
Donna H. Ryan
Endocrinology
Pennington Biomedical Research Center
Training Faculty
Christopher D. Still, DO
Internal Medicine
Geisinger Obesity Institute
Program Overview
Initiative
The Endocrine Society’s Weight First pilot program was launched to engage local primary care leaders to promote adoption of chronic weight management best practices. The specific initiative was developed to fill a provider gap caused by the increasingly high number of patients with obesity. The innovative training program was intended to give primary care practitioners the confidence to talk to their patients about weight first and equip practitioners to treat obesity.
Audience
Endocrinologists, primary care practitioners
Supporters
This CME education program is supported by an independent medical education grant from Novo Nordisk Inc.
Program Details
Weight First Train-the-Trainer Program Pilot
The Endocrine Society engaged four health care practitioners — an internist, a family practice physician, an osteopathic practitioner, and a nurse practitioner — in a pilot program to collaborate with faculty on the Guidelines on Pharmacologic Management of Obesity to develop a curriculum for primary care practitioners in obesity medical management best practices. The three guidelines experts, trained the four primary care practitioners, who reached 1,604 primary care learners in in-person, live meetings and through enduring materials.
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