American College of Lifestyle Medicine announces first two medical schools to earn highest recognition and certification for lifestyle medicine curriculum
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Thursday, April 11, 2024
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ST. LOUIS, April 11, 2024 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- The American College of Lifestyle Medicine (ACLM) has announced that the University of South Carolina School of Medicine Greenville (SOMG) and Loma Linda University School of Medicine (LLUSM) are the first to earn the highest recognition of a "Platinum Plus" certification designation for the significant level of undergraduate lifestyle medicine curricula within their programs.
Key Points:
- This level of lifestyle medicine curricula within medical schools supports graduates in achieving part of the prerequisites to become certified in lifestyle medicine by the American Board of Lifestyle Medicine (ABLM), following successful completion of the remaining prerequisites during residency training.
- Through ACLM's Undergraduate Medical Education (UME) Curriculum Certification process, students graduating from lifestyle medicine-certified medical schools are able to complete a portion of lifestyle medicine educational prerequisite hours (depending on their medical school's tier of certification) to go towards becoming certified in lifestyle medicine.
- "Loma Linda University School of Medicine is excited to accept this ACLM lifestyle medicine certification," said Brenda Rea, MD, DrPH, PT, RD, DipABLM, Lifestyle Medicine Intensivist, FACLM, program director of the Lifestyle Medicine Intensivist Fellowship at LLUSM.
- The first step toward earning certification in lifestyle medicine for a medical school is establishing a Lifestyle Medicine Interest Group (LMIG), a student- or trainee-led organization that addresses the need for lifestyle medicine at the academic and health systems level.