Full course description
This course is for healthcare professionals doing the Advancing Biopsychosocial Care for Obesity Project only
- Increase confidence in managing children with obesity
- Increase confidence in managing adult with obesity
- Increase understanding of the concept of structural competency in the context of obesity
- Increase understanding of the relationships between structural factors and obesity outcomes
- Increase understanding of the interactions between structural factors in producing obesity outcomes
- Increase confidence in available resources to address structural factors
- Increase awareness of internal and external sources of weight bias/stigma.
- Self-report an increase in knowledge about evaluation, treatment, clinic-based supports and clinical-community connections for children with obesity.
- Self-report an increase in confidence about managing children with obesity.
- Self-report an increased understanding in evaluation and treatment recommendations.
- Self-report an increase in knowledge about diagnosis, evaluation, and management of adults with obesity.
- Self-report an increase in confidence about managing adults with obesity.
- Self-report how structural factors, including historic policies and practice, influence health and health inequities.
- Self-report multi-level facilitators and barriers between patients and the healthcare system.
- Self-report strategies to identify and engage key community stakeholders to improve healthcare quality.
- Self-report ways to increase community trust, including the enlistment of natural helpers and CHWs, to improve patient-provider trust and rapport.
- Self-report communication strategies to reach patients; and Collaborate with community partners to develop strategies to address patients’ social needs.
- Self-report an increased understanding of the concept of structural competency
- Self-report an increased understanding of the relationship between structural factors in obesity
- Self report an increased knowledge of resources available to address structural factors
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Accreditation:
Accreditation
Successful Completion
Successful completion of this activity includes participating in the educational offering, participating in the online evaluation process, and completing the online verification of attendance, enables the learner to satisfy the requirements to claim continuing education.
Joint Accreditation Statement
In support of improving patient care, University of Missouri - Continuing Education for Health Professions is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.
Credit Designation Statements
Physician (AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™
The University of Missouri – Continuing Education for Health Professions designates this educational activity for a maximum of 4.25 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should only claim the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM)
Successful completion of this CME activity, which includes participation in the evaluation component, enables the participant to earn up to 4.25 Medical Knowledge MOC points in the American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM) Continuing Certification (formerly Maintenance of Certification/MOC) program. It is the CME activity provider’s responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of recognizing participation.
American Board of Pediatrics (ABP)
Successful completion of this CME activity, which includes participation in the evaluation component, enables the learner to earn up to 4.25 MOC points in the American Board of Pediatrics’ (ABP) Continuing Certification (formerly Maintenance of Certification/MOC) program. It is the CME activity provider’s responsibility to submit learner completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABP MOC credit.
Relevant Financial Relationship Disclosures
Helena LaRoche, MD, owns stock in APLT- Applied Therapeutics, Bristol-Meyers Squibb, and Evaxion A/S. All relevant financial relationships for this individual have been mitigated. No other relevant financial relationships were identified for any member of the planning committee or presenter.

