Key result
Integrating lifestyle medicine into medical curricula proves feasible and achieves high student ratings.
Why the study?
There is a compelling need to improve physicians' knowledge of lifestyle medicine, which needs to start early during medical education.
Population
Swedish undergraduate medical programme across a five-and-a-half-year curriculum
Comparison
Integration of lifestyle medicine into core curriculum vs pre-existing curriculum
Design
Curriculum development project case report
Authors
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Supports feasibility in one program; leaves open generalizability and effects on future practice.
Case Report
No
Integrating a structured lifestyle medicine curriculum into an existing undergraduate medical program is feasible and results in sustained improvements in curricular content and high student satisfaction.
Söderberg et al. (2024) conducted a case report in Medical education. Integration of lifestyle medicine into core curriculum vs. Standard curriculum (pre-intervention) was evaluated on Feasibility of integrating a structured lifestyle medicine curriculum and effects on curricular content and student learning. Integrating lifestyle medicine into an existing undergraduate medical curriculum was feasible and resulted in high student ratings for education in prevention (4.1/5) and lifestyle counselling (4.1/6).
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