For Healthcare Providers
Healthcare Nutrition & Lifestyle Medicine Resources
ACLM Continuing Education Portal
Lifestyle Medicine & Food As Medicine Essentials Course
Nutrition and Lifestyle Medicine Materials Library
Make use of our extensive library of downloadable nutrition and healthy living resources from Rooted Santa Barbara County and our national partner the American College of Lifestyle Medicine (ACLM).
Healthcare Nutrition & Lifestyle Medicine Resources
SPECIAL OPPORTUNITY!
Free Lifestyle Medicine Continuing Education for
Santa Barbara County Healthcare Providers
Rooted Santa Barbara County proudly offers a unique and free CME/CE opportunity from the American College of Lifestyle Medicine (ACLM) to Santa Barbara County clinicians and staff. Take advantage of a new course bundle that provides a foundational, evidence-based introduction to the field of lifestyle medicine with a focus on nutrition, often the most complex behavior to change, as a way to prevent and treat chronic disease.
This course bundle consists of three modules, four presentations and 5.5 hours of CME/CE content. Below is an outline for the course:
Introduction to Lifestyle Medicine module (1 hour)
Food as Medicine: Nutrition for Prevention and Longevity module (3 hours)
Food as Medicine: Nutrition for Treatment and Risk Reduction module (1.5 hours)
Registration is open now!
This complimentary course is provided by ACLM to our community as a way to educate healthcare providers on patient-centered, high-value, and outcome-oriented care.
Sign up here to join our special Healthcare Provider email list and get our exclusive Rooted Santa Barbara County code to access these courses for free!
Lifestyle medicine can address up to 80% of chronic diseases. A lifestyle medicine approach to population care has the potential to arrest the decades-long rise in the prevalence of chronic conditions and their burdensome costs. Patient and provider satisfaction often results from a lifestyle medicine approach, which strongly aligns the field with the Quintuple Aim of better health outcomes, lower cost, improved patient satisfaction, improved provider well-being, and advancement of health equity, in addition to its alignment with planetary health. Lifestyle medicine is the foundation for a redesigned, value-based and equitable healthcare delivery system, leading to whole person health.
Plant-based Guides for Your Patients and Clients
How do you start discussing plant-based nutrition with your patients, particularly when you only have a limited amount of time? Following are a range of free and low-cost materials to support your patient-centered conversations and support them on their journey to eating plant-based.
Tools to Support You
Building your confidence in the science of plant-based nutrition and lifestyle medicine can help you bring this critical lifestyle option to your patient community. We’ve gathered a range of healthcare provider-focused resources to help you expand your plant-forward nutrition knowledge base and grow a prevention-centered practice.
Continuing Education + Lifestyle Medicine
Prevention-centered healthcare communities and education opportunities are growing. Following you’ll find a growing list of associations and educational opportunities to stay connected to the growing science and engage with like-minded healthcare professionals.
- American College of Lifestyle Medicine & Lifestyle Medicine and Food As Medicine Course Bundle – FREE! See above.
- International Plant-Based Nutrition Healthcare Conference
- PCRM’s CME Webinars
- T. Colin Campbell Center for Nutrition Studies Plant Based Certificate Program
More on the practical application of plant-based nutrition for healthcare providers is being published in peer-reviewed publications. Here are a few recently published articles on incorporating plant-based nutrition into your practice:
- Plant Based Diets: A Physician’s Guide
- Plant-Based Nutrition for Healthcare Professionals: Implementing diet as a primary modality in the prevention and treatment of chronic disease
- Lifestyle Medicine: A Brief Review of Its Dramatic Impact on Health and Survival
We hope you’ll stay connected through our Newsletter to keep up to date on our growing network, resources, and training opportunities for local healthcare providers. You can support our work and help us grow community-centered plant-based programming by joining our Spreading Roots membership program. At Rooted, we believe optimal health is rooted in prevention – we’re a stronger community when we’re all healthy!
