Lifestyle Medicine Courses and Certifications

MassGeneralHospital

Optimizing Cancer Risk and Survivorship through Lifestyle Medicine

Explore lifestyle medicine strategies to reduce cancer risk and improve survivorship outcomes with expert insights from Dr. Amy Comander.

• YouTube
• 20 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

EFIM European Federation of Internal Medicine

The Connection Between Internal Medicine and Lifestyle Medicine

Discover how lifestyle medicine transforms internal medicine practice through behavior change strategies to improve patient outcomes and clinical effectiveness.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 38 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Happiness Is An Inside Job

Happiness Is An Inside Job with Dr. Rangan Chatterjee, Chase Jarvis

• CreativeLive
• 1 hour 20 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Introduction To Food & Health

3 ratings

Empower yourself and your patients with evidence-based nutrition strategies. This CME/CE course equips healthcare providers with practical tools to foster healthy eating habits, improve patient counse

• edX
• 1 week, 2-3 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course

American Council on Exercise Career Certificate

ACE Health Coach

24 ratings at Coursera

Coach clients toward lasting health change: apply behavior-change science, lifestyle and wellness strategies, chronic disease considerations, and professional conduct to build a health coaching practice.

• Coursera
• 24 weeks, 6 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course
• 6 courses

American Council on Exercise

Getting Ready for Your Exam

Review health coaching essentials — coaching ethics, communication, behavior change, lifestyle medicine, chronic conditions and professional practice — and rehearse exam-style scenarios with realistic practice questions and a practice test.

• Coursera
• 8 weeks, 1 hour a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Career Certificate

Preventing Heart Disease

Gain a practical approach to prevent first and recurrent cardiac events by identifying and managing the risk factors of coronary artery disease.

• edX
• 12 weeks, 2-3 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• $672.00
• 3 courses

University of California, Riverside

Nutrition and Healthy Living

22 ratings at edX

The purpose of this course is to introduce students to the importance of healthy eating and active living, which, in turn, can produce the best results for your overall well-being.

• edX
• 6 weeks, 1-2 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Free Certificate

The Mayo Clinic Guide to Pain Relief

65 ratings at The Great Courses Plus

A Mayo Clinic professor shows you science-based lifestyle choices that can help you manage chronic pain.

• The Great Courses Plus
• 6 hours 12 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Trial Available

Harvard Medical School

Controlling Your Blood Pressure

Let this dynamic new online course show you how to halt hypertension, boost cardiovascular fitness, and enjoy better and enduring good health.

• Harvard Health Online Learning
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Harvard Medical School

Fighting Inflammation

This interactive course reveals how and why “good” inflammation can go terribly wrong. The surprising causes of “bad” inflammation and the specific threats it poses to your health and well-being. And

• Harvard Health Online Learning
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Prevention, Control and Treatment of Chronic Diseases

Explore chronic disease prevention, self-management, and treatment through lifestyle, diet, exercise, medicinal food, modern medicine, and traditional Chinese medicine.

• XuetangX
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course

Lifestyle Medicine Treatments of Chronic Disease – Part 1

25 ratings at edX

Learn specific lifestyle medicine treatment protocols for a variety of chronic diseases, such as breast cancer, diabetes, and heart disease.

• edX
• 2 weeks, 10-15 hours a week
• No Longer Offered
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Essentials of Lifestyle Medicine and Population Health

Define the essential components of healthcare systems, and make the argument for why healthcare delivery models based on these foundational principles are essential to addressing our healthcare crisis.

• edX
• 2 weeks, 5-10 hours a week
• No Longer Offered
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Lifestyle Medicine Core Principles

Learn key concepts of evidence-based lifestyle therapeutic approaches used to prevent and treat the root causes of lifestyle-related, chronic diseases.

• edX
• 1 week, 5-10 hours a week
• No Longer Offered
• Free Online Course