Prework Modules
Digital Prework Modules
Before attending your regional chapter meeting, please complete the required 30-minute modules. A short pre/post assessment in each module helps you track your learning.
Understanding Obesity as a Chronic Disease
Explore obesity as a complex, chronic disease and examine the biologic, environmental, and social factors that influence its development, progression, and long-term management.
Evidence-Based Assessment and Treatment Planning
Move beyond BMI to apply current guidelines for screening, diagnosing, and evaluating obesity to establish individualized treatment goals and guide evidence-based treatment planning through shared decision-making with patients.
Pharmacotherapy for Obesity: Current and Emerging Options
Review current and emerging obesity pharmacotherapies, including mechanisms of action, efficacy, safety, and considerations for optimizing individualized drug therapy including dosing, titration, and managing adverse effects.
Delivering Person-Centered Obesity Care
Unpack how weight bias and stigma in health care settings affect patient care, and explore communication skills and frameworks to have person-centered conversations about obesity.
Integrated Patient Video Vignettes (Coming Soon)
Real scenarios. Relatable challenges.
Patient video vignettes embedded within the digital modules and interactive case simulations bring patient barriers, stigma experiences, and counseling pearls on nonpharmacological and pharmacological strategies to life. Listen to each video interview and complete the case simulations to strengthen your ability to recognize these challenges — and respond to them — in your own practice.
Purpose of Prework
Establish a declarative knowledge foundation and reduce cognitive load during live sessions, allowing in-person time to focus on applied competence.