Event Overview

One Day Essentials are full-day online clinical conferences, available free-of-charge to all RCGP members, offering a minimum of 126 hours of CPD per year.  All conferences are broadcast live and all session recordings and presentation slides are available to access from RCGP eLearning for up to nine months after the conference (we endeavour to upload content as quickly as possible after the conference, but it typically takes one to two weeks).

Please only register for one ticket type ticket upon booking. You are able to register for the live event which will also give you access to the REWIND page once this is available. If you are not able to attend live and would just like access to the recordings, please select the REWIND ticket at registration.

Lifestyle medicine is a global medical discipline, teaching clinicians behavioural techniques to support patients with some of the root causes of ill health. These include assessing and addressing financial stress, poor mental wellbeing, social isolation, inactivity, poor quality food, poor sleep/shift work and harmful substances or behaviours such as smoking, alcohol and harmful tech use. Lifestyle medicine provides one-to-one assessment and support but requires wider public health population level interventions. The aim of these interventions is to prevent, treat and potentially reverse ill health whilst minimising the need for long-term medications.

This One Day Essentials lifestyle medicine conference will describe lifestyle medicine practice and how it is applied in everyday clinical practice for GPs. The conference will cover the RCGP GP with extended role in lifestyle medicine pathway, the evidence for lifestyle medicine and where it sits with population and public health, how this practice can be used to reduce health inequity, avoid over-diagnosis and over-prescribing. Speakers will also address how lifestyle medicine practice can be more sustainable medicine, can deliver person-centered care and recognises the wider aspects of wellbeing such as art and nature.

 

Learning objectives

  • Define lifestyle medicine
  • Describe how public pealth and population health interventions can be complemented by lifestyle medicine’s one-to-one support
  • List the evidence for lifestyle medicine interventions
  • Define over-diagnosis and over-prescribing and how lifestyle medicine can address these challenges
  • Describe how lifestyle medicine can be used to address inequity
  • List how lifestyle medicine can improve sustainable practice
  • Describe how art and time in nature can improve health outcomes

Topics

  • TBC

Conference chair

Ellen Fallows – general practitioner and expert in obesity and lifestyle medicine.

Pricing

RCGP member: free

Non RCGP member: £195