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| Title |
Medical students as health coaches: Implementation of a student-initiated Lifestyle Medicine curriculum
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| Published in |
Israel Journal of Health Policy Research, November 2017
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| DOI | 10.1186/s13584-017-0167-y |
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| Authors |
Rani Polak, Adi Finkelstein, Tom Axelrod, Marie Dacey, Matan Cohen, Dennis Muscato, Avi Shariv, Naama W Constantini, Mayer Brezis |
| Abstract |
By 2020, the World Health Organization predicts that two-thirds of all diseases worldwide will be the result of lifestyle choices. Physicians often do not counsel patients about healthy behaviors, and lack of training has been identified as one of the barriers. Between 2010 and 2014, Hebrew University developed and implemented a 58-h Lifestyle Medicine curriculum spanning five of the 6 years of medical school. Content includes nutrition, exercise, smoking cessation, and behavior change, as well as health coaching practice with friends/relatives (preclinical years) and patients (clinical years). This report describes this development and diffusion process, and it also presents findings related to the level of acceptance of this student-initiated Lifestyle Medicine (LM) curriculum. Students completed an online semi-structured questionnaire after the first coaching session (coaching questionnaire) and the last coaching session (follow-up questionnaire). Nine hundred and twenty-three students completed the coaching questionnaire (296 practices were with patients, 627 with friends /relatives); and 784 students completed the follow-up questionnaire (208 practices were with patients, 576 with friends /relatives). They reported overall that health coaching domains included smoking cessation (263 students), nutrition (79), and exercise (117); 464 students reported on combined topics. Students consistently described a high acceptance of the curriculum and their active role in coaching. Further, most students reported that they were eager to address their own health behaviors. We described the development and acceptance of a student-initiated comprehensive LM curriculum. Students perceived LM as an important component of physicians' professional role and were ready to explore it both as coaches and in their personal lives. Thus, medical school deans might consider developing similar initiatives in order to position medical schools as key players within a preventive strategy in healthcare policy. |
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The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 45 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 24 | 53% |
| Canada | 2 | 4% |
| Brazil | 2 | 4% |
| Colombia | 1 | 2% |
| Comoros | 1 | 2% |
| Netherlands | 1 | 2% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 2% |
| Unknown | 13 | 29% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
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| Members of the public | 29 | 64% |
| Scientists | 8 | 18% |
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 8 | 18% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 116 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Unknown | 116 | 100% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Master | 15 | 13% |
| Student > Bachelor | 14 | 12% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 10 | 9% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 9 | 8% |
| Other | 7 | 6% |
| Other | 24 | 21% |
| Unknown | 37 | 32% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Medicine and Dentistry | 31 | 27% |
| Nursing and Health Professions | 11 | 9% |
| Social Sciences | 9 | 8% |
| Psychology | 8 | 7% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 4 | 3% |
| Other | 14 | 12% |
| Unknown | 39 | 34% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 31. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 14 December 2019.
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#21
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