Foundations for Success: Empowering Patients with Nonpharmacologic Weight Loss Strategies
Target Audience: Pharmacist, Pharmacy Tech, Physician Assistant, Physician
Course Overview
Nonpharmacologic strategies are essential to a holistic and multimodal approach to obesity management. These strategies include personalized dietary interventions, tailored physical activity prescriptions, and evidence-based behavioral counseling designed to enhance adherence and long-term success. For patients seeking additional options, surgical interventions may also be explored as part of an individualized treatment plan. This course identifies effective dietary and behavioral strategies to support sustainable weight loss and describes physical activity interventions tailored to individual needs. Additionally, it explores motivational interviewing as a powerful tool for engaging patients and promoting healthy, long-term weight-loss behaviors. Emphasis is placed on leveraging team members' unique competencies to create patient-centered, sustainable weight-loss plans.
Learning Objectives
Upon completion of this educational activity, participants should be able to:
- Identify effective dietary and behavioral strategies for sustainable weight loss
- Describe physical activity interventions for weight loss
- Compare and Contrast surgical options for weight loss
- Describe motivational interviewing as a tool to promote healthy weight loss
Faculty
Maintenance of Certification (MOC): Continuing Certification is offered for the American Board of Internal Medicine® (ABIM) and the American Board of Pediatrics® (ABP).
Successful completion of this CME activity, which includes participation in the evaluation component, enables the participant to earn up to 2.0 Medical Knowledge MOC points. Participants will earn MOC points equivalent to the amount of CME credits claimed for the activity. It is the CME activity provider's responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting MOC credit.
Successful completion of this CME activity, which includes participation in the evaluation component and post-test, qualifies for MOC points with the following boards:
American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM)
- Endocrinology
- Internal Medicine
- Introduction
- Guideline-Based Approaches to Obesity Management
- Screening and Assessment
- Nonpharmacologic Prevention and Treatment Strategies
- Increased Physical Activity
- Behavioral Changes
- Motivational Interviewing
- Nonpharmacologic Approaches and Beyond
- Surgical Procedures and Devices for Weight Management
- Collaborative Care Team Approach
- Summary
- Disclosures
From March 30, 2026 through March 30, 2029, participants must:
- Read the "learning objectives" and "author and planning team disclosures"
- Study the section entitled "educational activity"
- Complete the Course Test and Evaluation form. The Course Test will be graded automatically. Following successful completion of the Course Test with a score of 70% or higher, a statement of participation will be made available immediately. (No partial credit will be given.)
Credit for this course will be automatically uploaded to JA_PARS.
Faculty Planner Disclosure
The following individuals were involved in developing this activity: L. Austin Fredrickson, MD, FACP, Liz Fredrickson, PharmD, BCPS; Susan Bowlin, DNP, FNP-BC, ACNP-BC, CBN; and Pamela Sardo, PharmD, BS. Austin Frederickson, Liz Frederickson, and Pamela Sardo have no conflict of interest or financial relationship or commercial or financial support relevant to this activity to report or disclose in the development of this activity. Susan Bowlin is a member of the Speaker's Bureau for Eli Lilly and Novo Nordisk. Any potential conflicts of interest were mitigated.
Unlabeled Use Disclosure
The information provided in this course is general in nature, and it is designed solely to provide participants with continuing education credit(s). This course and materials are not meant to substitute for the independent, professional judgment of any participant regarding that participant's professional practice, including but not limited to patient assessment, diagnosis, treatment, and/or health management. Medical and pharmacy practices, rules, and laws vary from state to state, and this course does not cover the laws of each state; therefore, participants must consult the laws of their state as they relate to their professional practice. Healthcare professionals must consult their employer, healthcare facility, hospital, or other organization for guidelines, protocols, and procedures to follow. The information provided in this course does not replace those guidelines, protocols, and procedures, but is for academic purposes only, and this course's limited purpose is for the completion of continuing education credits. Participants are advised and acknowledge that information related to medications, their administration, dosing, contraindications, adverse reactions, interactions, warnings, precautions, or accepted uses is constantly changing. Any person taking this course understands that such a person must make an independent review of medication information before any patient assessment, diagnosis, treatment and/or health management. Any discussion of off-label use of any medication, device, or procedure is informational only, and such uses are not endorsed hereby. Nothing contained in this course represents the opinions, views, judgments, or conclusions of RxCe.com LLC. RxCe.com LLC is not liable or responsible to any person for any inaccuracy, error, or omission with respect to this course or course material.
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Accreditation
In support of improving patient care, RxCE.com is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.