Medical EducationCOMMENTARY

Pioneering the future: incorporating lifestyle medicine tools in osteopathic medical education

Shipra Bansal, MD, Assistant Professor, and Jay H. Shubrook, DO
Notes and Affiliations
Notes and Affiliations

Received: June 19, 2024

Accepted: January 17, 2025

Published: February 18, 2025

  • Shipra Bansal, MD, Assistant Professor, 

    Department of Clinical Sciences and Community Health,
    59431
    Touro University California, College of Osteopathic Medicine
    , Vallejo, CA, USA

  • Jay H. Shubrook, DO, 

    Department of Clinical Sciences and Community Health,
    59431
    Touro University California, College of Osteopathic Medicine
    , Vallejo, CA, USA

Abstract

The role of lifestyle has taken a renewed importance in disease prevention and chronic disease management. Osteopathic medicine has long focused on comprehensive, holistic care for our patients, and the tenets support the role of lifestyle medicine (LM) in osteopathic clinical care. In this commentary, the authors make the argument for incorporating LM more formally into the clinical curriculum at colleges of osteopathic medicine and will draw parallels with these two programs.

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