For Doctors &
Healthcare Professionals
Powerful Role Models
As a healthcare professional, you are a powerful role model for young people and parents–teaching them to focus on health choices related to food and bodies. Studies have shown that communicating about numbers (weight, BMI) and percentiles does not drive health outcomes. In fact, it can do the opposite. We know that when healthcare professionals talk with young people about controllable health behaviors that is when we see positive health outcomes.
What to Say Healthcare
This free activity is eligible for 2.0 CME credits from the American Academy of Family Practitioners and has been built for healthcare providers like you to support constructive conversations with pediatric patients around growth (weight, BMI) and food relationship.
The program also informs on weight stigma, adolescent body image issues, and disordered eating/eating disorders. In each of the four modules you’ll view short videos with Q&A sessions with experts about real-life weight-related concerns for patients, and built-in work time to create your own customized dot/smart phrases and personal action plans.
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