In this week’s episode of The Gaining Health Podcast, host Karli Burridge continues the conversation around obesity education in medical schools, PA schools, and NP schools, as she interviews one of the world’s top leaders in obesity medicine and obesity education, Dr. Scott Butsch. 

Dr. Butsch is the Director of Obesity Medicine at the Bariatric and Metabolic Institute at Cleveland Clinic. He is a board certified and fellowship trained physician in obesity medicine and clinical nutrition with expertise in the management and treatment of complex patients with obesity. 

 Dr. Butsch is an international leader in obesity and nutrition education and has been instrumental in the development and design of competencies and curriculum in obesity for undergraduate medical education and for all inter-professional education. He is the creator and Program Director of the Obesity Medicine Fellowship at Cleveland Clinic, the creator and Director of Obesity Medicine Preceptorship at Cleveland Clinic, as well as the creator and Director of the APP fellowship in Obesity Medicine at Cleveland Clinic. Additionally, he is the creator and co-director of ObesityLIVE, a virtual obesity case conference which runs monthly with presenters from around the world on complex obesity cases. 
 
 Dr. Butsch is an author and nationally recognized lecturer, and is a Master clinician in obesity medicine with clinical expertise in combination obesity pharmacotherapy, and also in medical and nutritional complications of Bariatric and metabolic surgery. 

Links to studies:

Medicine Residents are Unprepared to Effectively Treat Patients with Obesity: Results from a U.S. Internal Medicine Residency Survey

Benchmarking of provider competencies and current training for prevention and management of obesity among family medicine residency programs: a cross‑sectional survey

Low priority of obesity education leads to lack of medical students’ preparedness to effectively treat patients with obesity: results from the U.S. medical school obesity education curriculum benchmark study

Links to CC Fellowships:

https://my.clevelandclinic.org/departments/bariatric/medical-professionals/advanced-practice-provider-obesity-medicine-fellowship

https://my.clevelandclinic.org/departments/bar

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