About this Professional Certificate
Current medical services in the healthcare system aren’t designed to maintain good health and the services intended to improve health often fail miserably. The rise in chronic disease and healthcare spending is a looming global crisis.
Lifestyle Medicine involves the use of evidence-based lifestyle therapeutic approaches, to prevent, treat, and, oftentimes, reverse the lifestyle-related, chronic disease that's all too prevalent. This type of healthcare approach provides quality improvements for the future of healthcare.
In this professional series, Dr. Amanda McKinney, an American College of Lifestyle Medicine fellow, explores Lifestyle Medicine’s principles and how to use them in treating many common chronic diseases. Licensed medical practitioners, can refresh or add to their existing knowledge of Lifestyle Medicine.
What you'll learn
- Lifestyle Medicine Core Competencies
- The root causes of chronic diseases
- Specific lifestyle based treatment protocols
- The skills needed to help patients make difficult lifestyle and behavior changes to treat chronic diseases of lifestyle
| From | DoaneX, Doane University via edX |
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| Hours | 14 |
| Instructors | Kelsey Pruss, Amanda McKinney, Amanda McKinney, MD, FACLM |
| Language | English |
| Subjects | Science Social Sciences Personal Development |
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Careers
An overview of related careers and their average salaries in the US. Bars indicate income percentile (33rd - 99th).
Research Laboratory Technician Intermediate, Infectious Disease $39k
Disease Management Educator $53k
Chronic Disease Representative, Ophthalmic Sales Contractor $57k
Acquisitions Editor, Chronic Illness Initiative/Healthy Living Resources $62k
Systems Analyst for Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) $65k
Infectious Disease Coordinator-Registered Nurse $71k
Acute and Chronic Registered Dialysis Nurse Manager $85k
Rare Disease/Biotech Business Partner, Sales Training $95k
Manager, Program in Infectious Disease $98k
Senior Rheumatology Sales Specialist, Autoimmune and Rare Disease Division $99k
Senior Product Manager, Disease Management, Marketing $102k
Critical Care and Infectious Disease Clinical Pharmacist $122k
Courses in this Professional Certificate
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Applying Health Coaching in Patient Care For health practitioners, having knowledge of treatment protocols is not enough. They must be able to inspire behavior change in their patients. In order for the treatment to be... edX | DoaneX, Doane University |
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Lifestyle Medicine Fundamentals In this course, you will explore the core Lifestyle Medicine principles that form the foundation of this emerging field of patient care and learn why the application of lifestyle... edX | DoaneX, Doane University |
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Lifestyle Medicine Treatments of Chronic Disease – Part 1 Lifestyle Medicine is an increasingly crucial element to transforming disease care systems to healthcare systems. Current medical services are unable to restore health because... edX | DoaneX, Doane University |
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Lifestyle Medicine Treatments of Chronic Disease – Part 2 Lifestyle Medicine is an increasingly crucial element to transforming disease care systems to healthcare systems. Current medical services are unable to restore health because... edX | DoaneX, Doane University |
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| From | DoaneX, Doane University via edX |
|---|---|
| Hours | 14 |
| Instructors | Kelsey Pruss, Amanda McKinney, Amanda McKinney, MD, FACLM |
| Language | English |
| Subjects | Science Social Sciences Personal Development |
Careers
An overview of related careers and their average salaries in the US. Bars indicate income percentile (33rd - 99th).
Research Laboratory Technician Intermediate, Infectious Disease $39k
Disease Management Educator $53k
Chronic Disease Representative, Ophthalmic Sales Contractor $57k
Acquisitions Editor, Chronic Illness Initiative/Healthy Living Resources $62k
Systems Analyst for Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) $65k
Infectious Disease Coordinator-Registered Nurse $71k
Acute and Chronic Registered Dialysis Nurse Manager $85k
Rare Disease/Biotech Business Partner, Sales Training $95k
Manager, Program in Infectious Disease $98k
Senior Rheumatology Sales Specialist, Autoimmune and Rare Disease Division $99k
Senior Product Manager, Disease Management, Marketing $102k
Critical Care and Infectious Disease Clinical Pharmacist $122k
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