Understand obesity prevalence. Explain the definition of obesity and how to diagnose and strengths and weaknesses of measurements of obesity, Understand the health risks of living with obesity.
Explain the causes and drivers of obesity. Understand the importance of physical activity and an exercise prescription. Describe energy balance and its drivers. Understand energy intake and how it is regulated. Describe what happens after weight loss.
Be comfortable in introducing weight management into the consultation. How to consult and introduce the common side effects of drug therapy with the aim of mitigation.
Understand and be comfortable with safely prescribing all pharmacotherapy options that are available in the UK. Understand the mechanisms of action, efficacy and clinical trials, dosing, side effects and adverse events in the clinical trials and follow up. Warnings and contraindications. Understand the NICE guidelines
Safely manage common questions and queries arising from the follow up consultation including device demonstration, understanding the differences between devices.
To help those living with overweight and obesity and to do it in a safe and compliant way
With so many patients unable to access obesity services there is a huge private market that is already paying for obesity treatments. By joining those healthcare professionals in the private market you are helping reduce the waiting times and burden on the NHS as well as being in charge of your own time and having control of your own finances and how much you need to work.
These are a group of patients that show real gratitude because you are able to change their lives and improve their health for the better.
Our occupational medicine services at Primary Care Obesity Society provide businesses and their employees with comprehensive healthcare solutions, including injury management and prevention.
Some obesity medicines have been proven to reduce strokes, heart attacks and deaths from those causes. By providing an efficacious reduction in cardio metabolic risk you are improving patients life and potentially life expectancy
Many obesity services are now fully remote. Learn how this can be done in a safe and compliant way enabling you to reduce the dead time of travel to and from work and of home visits.
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