Medical students as health coaches: Implementation of a student-initiated Lifestyle Medicine curriculum

• Main Authors: Rani Polak (Author), Adi Finkelstein (Author), Tom Axelrod (Author), Marie Dacey (Author), Matan Cohen (Author), Dennis Muscato (Author), Avi Shariv (Author), Naama W Constantini (Author), Mayer Brezis (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2017-11-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Background 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 2...