Increase your confidence in providing counseling and treatment to patients with overweight and obesity with these innovative educational materials. The resources below include a 3-part, CME-eligible series that helps you proactively address obesity in a respectful, non-stigmatizing way that can foster patient engagement with life-changing therapies and an AI-powered obesity counseling conversation tool (member resource) that provides you with opportunities to practice having conversations about weight with patients in simulated scenarios.
The ACP Obesity Management Learning Series
Fully updated in 2024
Audio version now available
These interactive learning activities address lifestyle modification, pharmacologic therapy, and surgical intervention to provide physicians and their teams with the latest evidence-based guidance in treating patients with obesity.
Activities can be completed independently, or you can progress linearly.
The learning series and CME credit/MOC points are free to ACP Members. Nonmembers may purchase access to claim CME credit/MOC points for each module for $25.
Module 1: Lifestyle Modification
Obesity Management Conversation Tool
Module 2: Pharmacotherapy
Module 3: Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery
ACP Obesity Patient Education Materials
Share these ACP-produced handouts with your patients to bolster your recommendations and support patient success.
Lifestyle and Nutrition Handout
Lifestyle and Nutrition Checklist
Weight Loss Surgery
Medication and Weight Loss
Who’s Who on the Obesity Care Team
Advancing Equitable Obesity Care
ACP has begun to address obesity and its many related challenges systemically and through a health equity lens, through education and advocacy, and by addressing systemic factors that influence chronic health conditions, particularly those that disproportionately impact underserved populations.
Annals of Internal Medicine's Overweight and Obesity Special Collection
Annals of Internal Medicine features a comprehensive collection of articles, such as this In the Clinic article, providing valuable insights into the management, treatment, and health outcomes of obesity and overweight. To access most articles, you will need to have a subscription to the Annals of Internal Medicine.
Accreditation
The American College of Physicians is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians. Learn more
The obesity management learning hub and its contents are supported by an educational grant from Novo Nordisk Inc.