Video Overview of the Preventive Medicine Residency Program
Lifestyle Medicine Residency Curriculum
Our Goal
Provide training to residents to advance evidence-based lifestyle medicine to treat, reverse, and prevent non-communicable, chronic diseases.
Objectives
- Provide our residents with the unique opportunity at the University of Maryland preventive medicine residency program to learn lifestyle medicine and integrate lifestyle medicine into their profession if desired.
- Provide comprehensive lifestyle medicine training via modules, didactic sessions, various lifestyle medicine activities, direct clinical lifestyle medicine, and intensive therapeutic lifestyle change programs.
- Train our residents to become experts in the six pillars of lifestyle medicine which include a whole food, plant-predominant eating pattern, physical activity, restorative sleep, stress management, avoidance of risky substances and positive social connections.
- Provide one on one faculty guidance that upon graduation residents who complete the curriculum will be eligible to take the lifestyle medicine board exam.
Expectations
All residents will receive some component of lifestyle medicine training within our program. Residents who are interested in learning more lifestyle medicine may opt in and complete the lifestyle medicine curriculum.
More information can be found at: https://lifestylemedicine.org/residency-lmrc/

Marissa Khajavi (left) & Cara Dooley
Podcast
Episode 104: All About Preventive Medicine
October 27, 2023
In this episode of , preventive medicine physicians and leaders Dr. Marissa Khajavi and Dr. Cara Dooley, shine a light on preventive medicine, how to know if it might be a good fit for you, what different roles in the field might look like, and how to learn more about it.