The healthcare practitioner has a growing role to play in addressing alcohol use among their patients. The purpose of this eCourse is to improve your ability to define and identify risky levels and patterns of alcohol use in order to provide appropriate treatment for your patients. By incorporating screening assessments for alcohol use the practitioner will be able to recommend and deliver treatment accordingly.

Increasing the skill level of a wider range of clinicians, including primary care practitioners, to address risky alcohol use will lead to improvement in patients’ long-term health risks. By incorporating this important component of lifestyle medicine, clinicians will be more comfortable with providing interventions and referrals.

Incorporating alcohol use assessment and intervention into your practice is a key step toward practicing lifestyle medicine. Many alcohol use strategies revolve around lifestyle changes of your patients. Your increased knowledge and competence about alcohol use will help with better diagnosis and treatment options for improved health for your patients.

• Recognize why alcohol use should be addressed in the clinical setting
• Identify key alcohol use definitions and diagnostic criteria in order to make treatment decisions
• Screen all patients for alcohol use and address any related health effects
• Use validated alcohol use screening instruments to best assess patient risk
• Provide your patients with brief interventions or more extensive treatment and/or referrals to specialists when appropriate

Shaylona Kirk, MD, MPH, MA
Physician and Clinical Ethicist, U.S. Navy, Okinawa, Japan (Independent Contractor)

The ACPM designates this enduring material for 1.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

ACPM is not accredited to offer credit to non-physicians. To determine if activities designated for AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™ are acceptable for your licensing or certification needs, please contact your credentialing body directly.

Please note: Continuing Education (CE) for allied health professionals is ONLY available for the full 32-hour program and is NOT available for individual modules.  

This curriculum is applicable for Maintenance of Certification Credit (MOC) by the American Board of Preventive Medicine. Additional medical specialty boards are reviewing this new program for MOC credit.   

For physicians to receive AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™ for this activity, they must achieve a score of 80% or higher on the post-test and complete the evaluation. Completing the post-test and evaluation will provide ABPM MOC credits as well.

It is the policy of the Rush University Office of Interprofessional continuing Education to ensure that its CE activities are independent, free of commercial bias and beyond the control of persons or organizations with an economic interest in influencing the content of CE.  Everyone who is in a position to control the content of an educational activity must disclose all relevant financial relationships with any commercial interest (including but not limited to pharmaceutical companies, biomedical device manufacturers, or other corporations whose products or services are related to the subject matter of the presentation topic) within the preceding 12 months. 

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The course directors, planners and faculty of this activity have stated they have no relevant financial relationships to disclose.

The information contained in this activity represents the views of those who created it and does not necessarily represent the official view or recommendations of the American College of Lifestyle Medicine and American College of Preventive Medicine.

A key concept of the Lifestyle Medicine Core Competencies Program is that it is designed and developed for a broad spectrum of healthcare providers emphasizing the need for a team approach to practicing lifestyle medicine. With this in mind, practitioners from the following professions can benefit from the curriculum:

• Preventive Medicine Physicians
• Primary Care Physicians
• Physician Specialists
• Psychiatrists/Psychologists
• Physician Assistants / Nurse Practitioners
• Registered Nurses
• Physical / Occupation Therapists
• Mental Health Counselors
• Dietitians/ Nutritionists
• Health Educators
• Residents / Medical Students

• $39.04 (non-member)
• $21.85 (student/resident member)
• $23.38 (ACPM subscriber)
• $31.17 (member)