Activity ID
13675Expires
February 26, 2025Format Type
InternetCME Credit
8Fee
$0CME Provider: Oregon Health & Science University School of Medicine
Description of CME Course
The purpose of the Weight Management ECHO is to build the capacity of primary care clinicians and their team members to provide evidence-based comprehensive care of their eligible patients with complicated overweight and obesity. This includes education about weight loss efficacy from lifestyle interventions and, when not sufficient, initiating anti-obesity medications, counseling for metabolic-bariatric surgery, referring to subspecialty care for co-management of complicated comorbid conditions, and education about how best practices to reduce bias and stigma in overweight and obesity. This program will be delivered using the Project ECHO protocol, a virtual, case-based and interactive protocol.
ABMS Member Board Approvals by Type
ABMS Lifelong Learning CME Activity
Family Medicine
Commercial Support?
NoNOTE: If a Member Board has not deemed this activity for MOC approval as an accredited CME activity, this activity may count toward an ABMS Member Board’s general CME requirement. Please refer directly to your Member Board’s MOC Part II Lifelong Learning and Self-Assessment Program Requirements.
Educational Objectives
1. To understand the physiology of weight regulation and pathophysiology that leads to complicated overweight and obesity and to develop evidence-based treatment plans, including anti-obesity medications.
2. To be comfortable initiating and continuing patient conversations, including shared decision making, with patients regarding weight management when indicated. This includes identifying implicit bias and other barriers to effective treatment options.
3. To identify best evidence-based recommendations regarding diet and lifestyle in the management of complicated overweight and obesity.
4. To know indications for anti-obesity medication use in appropriate patient populations and to be able to initiate and manage patients long-term using any of the currently FDA approved medications for weight loss.
5. To be comfortable identifying patients eligible for metabolic-bariatric surgery, counseling them on the risks and benefits of surgery for weight management, and appropriately referring patients following an informed discussion.
6. To identify patients with obesity-related complications and initiate weight management strategies (lifestyle, drugs, surgery) as a first line therapy and refer those with more severe or advanced complications to the appropriate subspecialty clinic (e.g., poorly controlled type 2 diabetes, MASLD, OSA, severe hyperlipidemia, heart failure, others).
Keywords
Diet, Obesity,
Competencies
Interpersonal & Communication Skills, Medical Knowledge, Patient Care & Procedural Skills, Practice-based Learning & Improvement
CME Credit Type
AMA PRA Category 1 Credit
Practice Setting
Academic Medicine, Inpatient, Outpatient, Rural, Urban, VA/Military
