Continuing Education Course Overview

MONDAY, MARCH 25 – THURSDAY, MARCH 28, 2024
Early Bird Registration Deadline: FEBRUARY 10, 2024

Nutrition Management: Treating Cardiometabolic Disease is a unique continuing education learning opportunity for physicians, nurses, dieticians and other health care professionals, focusing on clinical strategies to improve care for patients with cardiometabolic diseases.

Developed by Harvard Medical School and Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, this practical, skill-based live-virtual course is designed for clinicians treating patients with cardiometabolic disease. The course will provide an update on scientific information supporting current guidelines, practical recommendations and controversies in the field of medical nutrition management for people living with cardiometabolic diseases, including obesity, diabetes, hypertension, dyslipidemia, cardiovascular, and renal diseases.

Nutrition Management Education Curriculum

This nutrition course for physicians, nurses, physician assistants, dieticians and other health care provides will discuss recommendations, intervention and prevention strategies and more. The live-virtual curriculum will include session topics on:

Assessing nutritional status and habits in the patient with obesity
Current nutritional data in the U.S. and around the world
Dyslipidemia nutritional management controversies
Engaging patients on weight management programs
Health care providers as a role model
Health disparities and inequities across communities in the U.S.
Healthy recommendations and dietary guidelines in the U.S.
Hypertension nutritional management controversies
Implementing lifestyle modification strategies in clinical practice and the community
Nutrition policy in the U.S.
Nutritional diabetes management
Popular diets pros and cons

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Continuing Education Learning Objectives

Upon completion of this course, participants will be able to:

Identify the most recent general nutrition guidelines and the current status of their implementation in the US population
Recognize specific nutrition recommendations for the prevention and management of obesity, diabetes, hypertension, dyslipidemia and cardiovascular/renal disease
Describe current controversies around commonly recommended meal plans along with their scientific support or lack thereof
Design practical approaches for clinical practice settings to assess patients' nutritional habits and provide meaningful interventions
Recognize challenges and opportunities to implement nutritional recommendations in underserved communities
Incorporate effective communication skills in nutrition counseling taking into consideration the diversity of cultural significance and attitudes regarding food

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Who Should Attend:

Allied Health Care Professionals
Dieticians
Nurses
Nurse Practitioners
Physicians
Physician Assistants
Primary Care and Specialty Physicians

Nutrition Management Highlights

By attending this course, you will become fully aware of the practical nutrition recommendations to provide to your patients with or at risk for cardiometabolic derangements that include obesity, diabetes, hypertension, dyslipidemia, cardiovascular and chronic renal disease.

You will learn from leading faculty from the Harvard Medical School and Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, who will provide the most updated scientific information that contribute to current nutrition guidelines and practical recommendations. Faculty will present and lead discussions in an online live virtual format on the most relevant issues in this field and related practical solutions.

Faculty will focus on ways translate the science into practical recommendations that fit the patient’s specific circumstances—including biological, psychological, social, financial, educational, and cultural factors that impact their food choices. You will learn and develop the skills needed to be able to design general nutritional programs, diet management, diabetes intervention strategies and more for patients at risk for or with cardiometabolic diseases in your clinical practice.

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Physicians Credits

The Harvard Medical School is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

The Harvard Medical School designates this live activity for a maximum of 18.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Nurse Credits

Harvard Medical School is accredited as a provider of nursing continuing professional development by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation. This activity is approved for 18.00 contact hours, of which 1.50 is eligible for pharmacology credit. Contact hours are awarded commensurate with participation and completion of the online evaluation and attendance attestation. We suggest claiming your hours within 30 days of the activity date, after this time, the attendance attestation will still be required to claim your hours.

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