Medicine Residents are Unprepared to Effectively Treat Patients with Obesity: Results from a U.S. Internal Medicine Residency Survey

Medicine Residents are Unprepared to Effectively Treat Patients with Obesity: Results from a U.S. Internal Medicine Residency Survey

Background: In an obesity epidemic, physicians are unprepared to treat patients with obesity. The objective of this study was to understand how obesity is currently addressed in United States (U.S.) Internal Medicine (IM) residency programs and benchmark the degree to which curricula incorporate top...

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Main Authors: W Scott Butsch, Kathryn Robison, Ranita Sharma, Julianne Knecht, B. Gabriel Smolarz
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SAGE Publishing 2020-11-01
Series:Journal of Medical Education and Curricular Development
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1177/2382120520973206

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