Pediatric Healthy Lifestyles Center

During their rotation with the Pediatric Healthy Lifestyle Center, residents will become familiar with a family-centered, community-based approach to the evaluation and treatment of childhood obesity, using key elements of the chronic care model and current AAP guidelines. Residents will have the opportunity to work with our multidisciplinary team in an outpatient setting;

observe nutrition counseling for families of overweight children; and work with partner organizations in the community. Goals for this elective include:

1. Understand key elements of the chronic care model and relevance to obesity care

2. Identify clinic systems strategies to facilitate high quality obesity care

3. Understand basic community asset mapping theory and methods

4. Understand basic feeding dynamics(i.e picky eating, meal routines, parenting) for the infant/child 0-5 years of age

5. Learn key elements of obesity evaluation and management in children and adolescents

6. Complete a small clinic or community based project.

Pediatric Healthy Lifestyles Center- Goals & Objectives

Pediatric Healthy Lifestyles Center - Rotation Summary