Brown Zipporah, Freeman Kelly, Räisänen Anu M
Department of Health Services, Linn County Mental Health, Albany, OR, USA (ZB).
American College of Lifestyle Medicine, Chesterfield, MO, USA (KF).
Am J Lifestyle Med. 2025 Feb 19:15598276251321418. doi: 10.1177/15598276251321418.
Lifestyle medicine (LM) has demonstrated clinical efficacy when utilized within chronic disease guidelines where lifestyle interventions are recommended. Integrating LM content into health professions education, such as doctor of occupational and physical therapy programs, is critically important to empower future clinicians to adequately implement therapeutic lifestyle interventions to improve their patient's health outcomes. The American College of Lifestyle Medicine Partial Academic Pathway was developed to facilitate the integration of LM content into health professions programs. In this article, we describe the Partial Academic Pathway pilot, which began in the fall of 2022 and concluded in the fall of 2023. In addition, we describe the role of two health professions, occupational therapy and physical therapy, in health promotion and management of lifestyle-related conditions. Finally, we provide an example of how LM competencies were implemented into a doctor of physical therapy curriculum. As the students learning about LM enter the workforce, they have the potential to support their patients' health through therapeutic lifestyle interventions while reducing healthcare costs and improving patient satisfaction.
生活方式医学（LM）在被应用于推荐生活方式干预措施的慢性病指南时已显示出临床疗效。将生活方式医学内容整合到健康专业教育中，比如职业治疗和物理治疗项目的博士课程，对于使未来的临床医生有能力充分实施治疗性生活方式干预以改善患者健康结局至关重要。美国生活方式医学学院部分学术路径的制定是为了促进生活方式医学内容融入健康专业项目。在本文中，我们描述了始于2022年秋季并于2023年秋季结束的部分学术路径试点。此外，我们阐述了职业治疗和物理治疗这两个健康专业在健康促进及与生活方式相关病症管理中的作用。最后，我们给出一个将生活方式医学能力融入物理治疗博士课程的示例。随着学习生活方式医学的学生进入职场，他们有潜力通过治疗性生活方式干预来支持患者的健康，同时降低医疗成本并提高患者满意度。
