Professional education can facilitate lifestyle medicine practice:
investigating implementation strategies
Formative research suggested that continuing medical education (CME) for healthcare professionals facilitated lifestyle medicine practice adoption in health systems.
Implementation science supports this approach and recognizes training and education as an effective implementation strategy.
Findings are summarized in the above analytical framework, which is based on the Implementation Research Logic Model.
To better understand if and how CME could facilitate lifestyle medicine implementation, I conducted a thematic analysis using the multiple case study transcripts to answer these three research questions:
1. How is the selection or impact of educational strategies influenced by individual- and system-level determinants?
2. What educational strategies are commonly leveraged to facilitate LM implementation?
3. What are the mechanisms of change by which educational strategies facilitate LM implementation?