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Don’t Wait to Talk about Weight: A 2-Hour Interactive Curriculum Improves Medical Student Skills with Weight Management

Objective: The goal of this curriculum was to increase medical students’ knowledge of obesity medicine as well as their comfort with and confidence in communication skills related to weight management by using a standardized patient (SP) encounter.Methods: We developed and evaluated a two-part weight management curriculum that used a synchronous…

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