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The Early Career Learning Pathway offers a foundational overview of essential topics in obesity medicine. This pathway is designed to introduce key concepts and provide resources to support your learning and growth as you begin your journey in the field of Obesity Medicine.
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The 2025 Obesity Algorithm® is an essential tool for any practice; it contains updated information on the mechanisms, evaluation, and treatment of obesity, including why obesity is a disease, how obesity causes the most common metabolic diseases encountered in clinical practice, and how to treat obesity to reduce disease risk.
This most recent update to the Obesity Algorithm® includes an extensive template on how to start an obesity medicine practice and practical recommendations for treating patients with obesity via telehealth. Additional updates include information about obesity and organ transplantation, kidney stones, and orthopedic complications.
Other updates include:
- Metabolic syndrome
- Approach and management of patients with increasing cholesterol with ketogenic diet
- Update to Women and Obesity
- Lipedema
- Hypothalamic obesity
- Obesity Setpoint Myth
- Fruit Versus High Fructose Corn Syrup
- Inclusion of setmelanotide
- Updated links to additional education resources
Resources Cont.
Providing education and resources to build competency in treating obesity in a primary care setting or increase access to obesity medicine specialists to support obesity treatment. Through a partnership with Project ECHO, the OMA hosts monthly virtual ECHO sessions which will include a brief didactic lecture followed by a patient case study. Through lecture and experiential learning, participants will enhance their knowledge base of the disease of obesity and how to best clinically manage their patients with obesity.
Obesity Pillars® is an open-access online-only journal published by the Obesity Medicine Association in collaboration with Elsevier. Our medical journal is dedicated to publishing evidence-based research for health care clinicians in the field of obesity medicine. Obesity Pillars® serves as a resource to assist clinicians to deliver patient-centered obesity medicine care in alignment with the OMA’s four pillars of obesity treatment: Nutrition Therapy, Physical Activity, Behavioral Modification, Medical Interventions
Obesity: A Disease is the official OMA podcast exploring the many facets of the disease of obesity. Episodes provide valuable insights into this growing problem and better equip clinicians to understand and engage in treating this disease.
Recommended Lectures
Embark on a comprehensive exploration of patient engagement across the weight management journey.
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Nutrition Therapy is one of the essential pillars of obesity treatment and often the most misunderstood.
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Fundamentals of Obesity Treatment is a course offering introductory education about the evidence-based approaches for evaluating, diagnosing, and treating obesity in a clinical setting.
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Selecting the correct on label or off label medication to treat obesity can be confusing. The acronym RXAOM provides a framework for individualizing the selection process.
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Metabolic/Bariatric Surgery is well-known for the impressive weight loss.
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This presentation discusses the particular administrative needs and challenges related to treating obesity.
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Discussing obesity with patients can be challenging. Motivational interviewing (MI) is and effective way to initiate, sustain, and move forward with obesity treatment.
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As the choices available for anti-obesity pharmacotherapy increase, clinicians are faced with options for addressing key clinical scenarios.
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