Open AccessEvaluation of a workshop to improve residents' patient-centred obesity counselling skills
Author(s) -
Amy M. Burton,
Carl M. Brezausek,
April A. Agne,
Shirley L Hankins,
Lisa L. Willett,
Andrea Cherrington
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
postgraduate medical journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.568
H-Index - 99
eISSN - 1469-0756
pISSN - 0032-5473
DOI - 10.1136/postgradmedj-2015-133590
Subject(s) - medicine , obesity , medical education , medical physics , bioinformatics , family medicine , biology
Primary care physicians are being asked to counsel their patients on obesity and weight management. Few physicians conduct weight loss counselling citing barriers, among them a lack of training and confidence. Our objective was to pilot test the effectiveness of a 3-h interactive obesity-counselling workshop for resident physicians based on motivational interviewing (MI) techniques.