Lifestyle medicine patient encounters can be accomplished in both the inpatient and outpatient settings. Our hope is that lifestyle medicine will be another lens that each resident will use to assess and treat every patient they interact with in a clinical environment when appropriate.
The great news is that many of these requirements can be met simultaneously with the same unique patient encounter. For example, if a resident sees a patient with diabetes, we hope the resident will address all the usual diabetes visit expectations and also have their lifestyle medicine lens on to address physical activity, nutrition, sleep and/or connectedness. The resident can count the visit as one of the 400 unique lifestyle medicine encounters and obtain credit for the specific subcategories covered, as well. Thus, one unique encounter can meet multiple subcategory requirements.