What we cover
- Why is lifestyle medicine needed?
- The scale of the problem
- What is a modern developed lifestyle?
- Why lifestyle medicine ?
- The social determinants of health
- 6 pillars of lifestyle medicine - Nutrition; Physical activity; Sleep; Minimizing harmful substances; Mental wellbeing and stress; Healthy relationships
- Putting lifestyle medicine into practice - As an individual; As a practice; At network/cluster level
- National initiatives e.g. Active practice and Parkrun practice
- Group consultations
- Health coaching and behaviour change
- Starting a walk, jog or swim at your practice, network or cluster
- More details on ongoing CPD to maintain the extended role in lifestyle medicine (GPwER Lifestyle Medicine) role can be found on the RCGP website.
What you get
Option to attend the live online event(s) which takes place during your subscription, for an interactive experience
Watch anytime during your subscription
6 hours teaching
Fully chapterised course so you can dip in and out of topics
1 year access to the course on demand to learn any time it suits you
Pick up where you left off and re-watch sections as you like
Red Whale Knowledge
Includes 1 year access to Red Whale Knowledge - our library of 900+ online written resources (if you already have a subscription, we'll extend your expiry date by 1 year)
More about Red Whale Knowledge
Learning the Red Whale way
We design our courses to be a little bit different to ones you might have booked or attended in the past!
- Varied teaching styles to optimise engagement
- Evidence based content and education tools enhance learning & delegate experience
- Engaging content: stories, humour, cases, WhaleArt and more
- Our presenters are practising GPs: they focus on getting learning into practice while understanding the realities of the day job!