The Hunger Habit: Methods to Transform our Relationship with Eating (2024) Enduring

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How we can help ourselves, and our patients, heal unhealthy relationships with food and eating.

Leveraging findings from habit change science as well as mindfulness practice, the behavior change model Dr. Jud Brewer will describe involves:

  • Identifying the habit patterns that tether individuals to unhealthy eating habits;
  • Interrupting those habit patterns using awareness (as opposed to willpower, which has not been shown to sustain long-term behavior change);
  • Using built-in mechanisms of the brain to overwrite those unhealthy habit patterns with newer, healthier ones.

In doing so, eating and food will cease to be the cause of anxiety or shame, and rather become a source of self-care, health, a pleasure, and an occasion to connect with oneself and others.

Target Audience

All members of the healthcare team including MD/DO, nurses, pharmacist, social workers and registered dieticians.

Learning Objectives

At the end of this activity, the participant will be able to:

  1. Describe how different types of eating habits are formed and perpetuated.
  2. Explain how reinforcement learning works in the brain.
  3. Discuss how mindfulness approaches can help change eating habit patterns.
Course summary
Available credit: 
  • 1.00 ACPE Pharmacy
  • 1.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™

    Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine designates this Enduring activity for a maximum of 1.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

  • 1.00 ANCC
  • 1.00 Social Work (ACE)
  • 1.00 Participation
Course opens: 
04/22/2024
Course expires: 
04/22/2025

This workshop with Dr. Jud Brewer, MD, PH.D. focuses on using mindfulness to transform their relationship with eating — and provides continuing education credit.

Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine asks all individuals involved in the development and presentation of Accredited Continuing Education activities to disclose all financial relationships with ineligible companies. This information is disclosed to all activity participants prior to the start of the educational activity. Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine has procedures to mitigate all relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies. In addition, faculty members are asked to disclose when any unapproved use of pharmaceuticals and devices is being discussed.

In accordance with the Standards for Integrity and Independence in Accredited Continuing Education, all relevant financial relationships that faculty, planners, authors, and anyone who may be in control of content have with ineligible companies have been mitigated.

 
Featured Speaker

Judson Brewer MD PhD
Speaker is a consultant for Sharecare Inc. Speaker does not plan on discussing unlabeled/investigational uses of a commercial product

Planning Committee

Daniel P. Alford, MD, MPH, FACP, DFASAM
CME Course Director
Associate Dean and Professor of Medicine
Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine
Planner has no relevant financial relationships to disclose. 

Janice Furlong. MSW
Clinical Professor Emerita
Boston University School of Social Work
Planner has no relevant financial relationships to disclose. 

Lisa Ferreira Gormley, MS, RD, LDN, CWPM, HWC
Senior Clinical Consultant, Health Engagement
Point32Health
Planner has no relevant financial relationships to disclose. 

Christine Naoum-Heffernan, CPNP
Boston Medical Center 
Planner has no relevant financial relationships to disclose. 

Katelyn O'Brien, PharmD, BCPS, CDCES, BC-ADM
Clinical Pharmacy Specialist – Ambulatory Care
Boston Medical Center
Planner is on the Advisory Board for Bayer Pharmaceuticals

Jon Roberts
Operations Manager, Mindfulness-Based Learning
Point32Health
Planner has no relevant financial relationships to disclose. 

CCE Program Manager:  Claire Grimble, CMP

 

THIS CONTINUING  EDUCATION PROGRAM IS INTENDED SOLELY FOR EDUCATIONAL PURPOSES FOR QUALIFIED HEALTH CARE PROFESSIONALS. IN NO EVENT SHALL BOSTON UNIVERSITY BE LIABLE FOR ANY DECISION MADE OR ACTION TAKEN IN RELIANCE ON THE INFORMATION CONTAINED IN THE PROGRAM. IN NO EVENT SHOULD THE INFORMATION CONTAINED IN THE PROGRAM BE USED AS A SUBSTITUTE FOR PROFESSIONAL CARE.  NO PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONSHIP IS BEING ESTABLISHED. IN NO EVENT SHOULD INFORMATION IN THE MATERIALS REGARDING LAWS, REGULATIONS, OR LEGAL LIABILITY BE CONSIDERED LEGAL ADVICE OR USED AS A SUBSTITUTE FOR CONSULTING WITH AN ATTORNEY.

Credit Types:  AMA, ANCC, Social Work, ACPE, Registered Dietician, Participation

In support of improving patient care, this activity has been planned and implemented by Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine and Point32Health. Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine 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.

 

Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine designates this enduring material for a maximum of 1 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Nursing Contact Hours: 1, none of which are eligible for pharmacology credit

Pharmacists: This activity is approved for 1 CPE credit(s).

This activity is approved for 1 CPE credit(s) under the ACPE universal activity number: JA0000185-9999-24-021-H99-P

The activity is available for credit claiming sixty days POST MEETING

Social Work: As a Jointly Accredited Organization, Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organizations, not individual courses, are approved under this program. Regulatory boards are the final authority on courses accepted for continuing education credit. Social workers completing this course receive 1 clinical continuing education credits.

Registered Dieticians:  Completion of this RD profession-specific activity awards 1 CPEU(s).

 




Other Learners:  All other learners may claim a certificate of participation.  Consult your professional licensing board regarding the applicability and acceptance of certificates of participation for programs certified for credit by organizations accredited by Joint Accreditation for Interprofessional Education.

Available Credit

  • 1.00 ACPE Pharmacy
  • 1.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™

    Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine designates this Enduring activity for a maximum of 1.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

  • 1.00 ANCC
  • 1.00 Social Work (ACE)
  • 1.00 Participation
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