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Equip and empower medical students

Universities recognize the importance of integrating behavior, nutrition, and lifestyle medicine into medical education. This shift is clear in the growing number of institutions adopting ACLM’s resources.

Faculty are eager to modernize medical training but often lack the time to build curricula from the ground up. ACLM fills this gap with ready-to-use, comprehensive educational resources—spanning bachelor’s to fellowship programs—designed for seamless implementation.

Fill the gap in clinical education

Despite the clear link between lifestyle behaviors and health, and inclusion of lifestyle in most chronic disease clinical practice guidelines as the first recommendation, many medical schools lack robust lifestyle medicine curricula. Integrating lifestyle medicine into medical school curricula addresses the growing burden of chronic diseases.

Become a recognized leader

Join the growing number of universities embracing a lifestyle-first approach to chronic disease treatment. Graduates equipped with this training report improved patient outcomes, greater career satisfaction, and expanded access to care—enhancing both your institution’s impact and reputation.

Support Medical Student Recruitment and Well-Being

Medical students consider addressing lifestyle factors such as nutrition and physical activity important to their future careers, but upon graduation overwhelmingly do not feel equipped to meaningfully engage patients on these topics. Today’s students are interested in learning lifestyle medicine, and desire sufficient training to be healthy lifestyle role models for patients and provide effective health behavior change counseling.. 

Free ready-to-use curricula

culinary medicine curriculum

Deepen your understanding of how food and nutrition support health.

Discover the essentials of healthy, delicious cooking with ACLM’s free, self-paced Culinary Medicine Curriculum, created by Dr. Michelle Hauser, physician and chef. With over 15 hours of engaging video lessons, this accessible resource offers practical skills, recipe demonstrations, and downloadable handouts—perfect for beginners and seasoned cooks alike.

No prerequisites, no cost—just evidence-based culinary medicine education you can use right away.

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Undergraduate Medical Education

Lifestyle Medicine Curriculum Certification

Showcase your institution’s commitment to innovation in undergraduate lifestyle medicine education and help your students pursue the pathway toward lifestyle medicine certification.

The ACLM Curriculum Certification Committee uses a tiered approach to evaluate how well lifestyle medicine is integrated into an institution’s curriculum, considering factors such as total training hours, percentage of competencies covered, and available enrichment opportunities for deeper student learning.

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Medical School Curriculum

Lifestyle Medicine Education (LMEd) from University of South Carolina, Greenville

As ACLM’s strategic partner in undergraduate medical education, LMEd offers open access to a collection of evidence-based curricular resources through the University of South Carolina School of Medicine Greenville to train future clinicians in prevention and treatment of lifestyle-related diseases.

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Scholarships

We are committed to expanding access to lifestyle medicine.
Through our scholarship opportunities, we support physicians
and other healthcare professionals to pursue certification and
advance their lifestyle medicine journey.

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