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Course: Tackling Obesity: Approaches, Challenges, and Solutions – Module 1: Obesity in Appalachia

CME Credits: 0.25

Released: 2025-11-15

This activity introduces learners to the burden and unique patterns of obesity across Appalachian communities, highlighting how geographic isolation, socioeconomic disadvantage, and limited access to multidisciplinary care exacerbate cardiometabolic risk and drive disparities in outcomes. Through a concise, 15-minute case based format tailored for busy clinicians, expert faculty frame obesity as a chronic, treatable disease, review evidence based assessment strategies, and explore practical approaches that nurse practitioners and physician associates can use to initiate stigma free, patient centered conversations about weight in real-world practice settings. based format tailored for busy based assessment strategies, and explore practical approaches that nurse practitioners and physician a free, patient centered conversations about weight in real world practice settings.


Upon completion of this activity, participants should be better able to:


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