Lifestyle Medicine Education

Lifestyle Medicine Education (LMEd) is an evolution of the Lifestyle Medicine Education Collaborative, originally founded by Dr. Eddie Phillips and Dr. Jennifer Trilk and co-directed with Mr. Dennis Muscato, and is now supported by the University of South Carolina School of Medicine at Greenville. 

We have created this Lifestyle Medicine Education collection to help educators understand more about LMEd core curricula and its integration into existing curricula, electives, rotations and scholarly concentrations. LMEd provides open access, evidence-based Lifestyle Medicine curricular resources to build knowledge, skills and advocacy in medical doctors for the prevention and treatment of lifestyle-related chronic disease.

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Recognition

2021- Jennifer Trilk, Ph.D., FACSM, DipACLM has been elected  2021-22 ACSM Trustee of Education & Allied Health

2020- UofSC School of Medicine Greenville receives the ASPIRE to Excellence Award for it's Lifestyle Medicine Curriculum from the Association for Medical Education in Europe

2020 - Lifestyle Medicine Education Collaborative (LMEd) receives the COVID-19 Adaptability Award from the American College of Lifestyle Medicine

2019 - Lifestyle Medicine Education Collaborative (LMEd) receives the President’s Council on Fitness, Sports and Nutrition Community Leadership Award

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Publications

Design and implementation of a clinic-to-community, physical activity health promotion model for healthcare providers
Preventive Medicine Reports, Volume 26, April 2022, 101697
Ryan R. Porter, Patton McClelland, Alex Ewing, Victoria Sonka, Jennifer L. Trilk 

Medical Education Transformation: Lifestyle Medicine in Undergraduate and Graduate Medical Education, Fellowship, and Continuing Medical Education [PDF]
American Journal of Lifestyle Medicine, Volume 20, No. 10, 2021 
Brenda Rea, MD, DrPH, PT, RD, DipABLM, Shannon Worthman, BS, Paulina Shetty, MS, RDN, DipACLM, Megan Alexander, MS, and Jennifer L. Trilk, PhD, FACSM, DipACLM

Undergraduate Medical Education: Lifestyle Medicine Curriculum Implementation Standards [PDF]
American Journal of Lifestyle Medicine, Volume 20, No. 10, 2021 
Jennifer L. Trilk, PhD, DipACLM, Shannon Worthman, BS, Paulina Shetty, MS, RDN, DipACLM, Karen R. Studer, MD, MBA, MPH, DipABLM, April Wilson, MD, MPH, DipABLM, Marianna Wetherill, PhD, RDN, LD, DipACLM, Lori Whelan, MD, DipABLM, Shipra Bansal, MD, DipABLM, Megan Alexander, MS, Beth Frates, MD, DipABLM, Sylvia Cramer, DrPH, MPH, DipACLM, and Brenda Rea, MD, DrPH, PT, RD, DipABLM

An Evaluation to Assess the Knowledge, Attitudes, Behaviors, and Confidence of First Year Medical Students in a Culinary Medicine Teaching Kitchen [PDF]
Topic In Clinical Nutrition/October-December 2020
Lauren E. Vanderpool, MS; Jennifer L. Trilk, PhD, FACSM, DipACLM; Sarah F. Griffin, PhD, MPH; Margaret D. Condrasky, EdD

Design and Implementation of a Lifestyle Medicine Curriculum in Undergraduate Medical Education [PDF]
American Journal of Lifestyle Medicine, 2019
Jennifer L. Trilk, PhD, FACSM , Ihsan A. Elkhider, LLB, MSEd, Irfan Asif, MD, April Buchanan, MD, John Emerson, MD, Ann Blair Kennedy, DrPH , Robert Masocol, MD, Elizabeth Motley, MD, and Matthew Tucker, PhD

Including Lifestyle Medicine in Medical Education: Rationale for American College of Preventive Medicine/American Medical Association Resolution 959 [PDF]
American Journal of Preventive Medicine, May 2019
Jennifer Trilk, PhD, FACSM, Leah Nelson, BS, Avery Briggs, BA, Dennis Muscato, MS

Including Lifestyle Medicine in Medical Education: Rationale for American College of Preventive Medicine/American Medical Association Resolution 959
TOPICS IN EDUCATION| VOLUME 56, ISSUE 5, E169-E175, MAY 01, 2019
Jennifer Trilk, PhD, FACSM; Leah Nelson, BS; Avery Briggs, BA; Dennis Muscato, MS

Design and Implementation of a Lifestyle Medicine Undergraduate Medical Education
SAGE Journals, April 2019
Jennifer L. Trilk, PhD, FACSM; Ihsan A. Elkhider, LLB, MSEd; Irfan Asif, MD; April Buchanan, MD; John Emerson, MD; Ann Blair Kennedy, DrPH; Robert Masocol, MD; Elizabeth Motley, MD; and Matthew Tucker, PhD

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Lifestyle Medicine in the News

Proposed Nutrition Competencies for Medical Students and Physician Trainees A Consensus Statement
JAMA Network - 2024

Explaining Lifestyle Medicine
FoxCarolina News - 2024

USC School of Medicine Greenville achieves national certification for lifestyle medicine curriculum 
GSA Business Report - 2024

Simple fitness routine may help Parkinson’s disease patients — and their caretakers
NY Post - 2024

Nutrition, Exercise: Medical Schools Boost Teaching of Healthy Behaviors to Fight Chronic Disease
The Wall Street Journal - 2023

Colleges, Higher Ed Groups Join Biden Campaign Against Hunger
Inside Higher Ed - 2022

Program aims to teach med students 'health' care instead of 'sick' care
WYFF - 2022

Prevention & Wellness Series: Exercise
Cancer Survivors Park Alliance - 2021

Upstate students team up to teach healthy eating habits
WYFF News4 (TV) - 2020

Med students take a spin in the kitchen to teach healing through food
WYFF News4 (TV) - 2018

Lifestyle Medicine at the UofSC School of Medicine Greenville
AAMC Pre-Med Navigator - 2017

The Power of Physician-Prescribed Physical Activity
The Aspetar Sports Medicine Journal - 2017

Exercise: It's what the doctor ordered
CNN - November 8, 2016

ELMO announce the cooperation with LMed
ELMO - October 6, 2016

Exercise is Medicine Greenville
Exercise is Medicine - October 4, 2016

Doctors not taught to discuss diet, nutrition with patients
Chicago Tribune - August 1, 2016

How to promote Lifestyle Medicine in the Clinic, Curriculum, Community: Assoc Prof Irfan Asif
American Medical Society for Sports Medicine

A look inside GHS's new human performance lab
WYFF 4 - November 22, 2013