A High-Quality Educational Program for Healthcare Professionals
Harvard: The Blackburn Course in Obesity Medicine – Treating Obesity 2025 is a structured digital educational course developed to provide evidence-informed perspectives and conceptual insights into obesity medicine. Presented by experts and designed for healthcare professionals, this course delivers high-value educational content suitable for academic learning, review, and professional development.
This program is offered strictly for educational and professional reference purposes.
Why This Course Is Valuable
This educational course is respected in healthcare education because it provides:
- Expert-aligned lectures grounded in scientific frameworks
- Structured content suitable for study and professional learning
- Multidisciplinary perspectives commonly referenced in academic training
- A strong foundation for understanding key concepts in obesity medicine
- Format designed to support ongoing education and review
What You’ll Explore
This course offers educational insight into:
- Conceptual foundations of obesity and metabolic science
- Evidence-aligned frameworks used in professional education
- Multidisciplinary approaches to obesity medicine topics
- Academic perspectives on clinical considerations for obesity
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Review-oriented material structured for reinforcement of key concepts
Who This Course Is For
This course is suitable for:
- Physicians and medical trainees
- Nurse practitioners and physician assistants
- Registered dietitians and nutrition professionals
- Allied health practitioners
- Public health and health sciences students
- Educators and academic institutions
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Professionals pursuing structured academic study
OVERVIEW
Effective treatment of patients with obesity is an important part of modern medical practice. This course delivers practical strategies to optimize the management of obesity and its many complications, and provides the most up-to-date approaches to obesity prevention and treatment.
Highlights of the 2025 program include:
- Update on using the newer GLP-1 based therapies
- Comprehensive evaluation of the patient with obesity
- Precision medicine and dietary approaches to obesity and metabolic disorders
- Medical, endoscopic, and surgical options for the treatment of obesity
- Effective counseling and motivation techniques
- Medical and surgical treatment of children and adolescents with obesity
- Emerging strategies and therapies for genetic obesity
- A guide to virtual care, group visits, private and academic practice models
- Enhancing communication about obesity with patients, referring providers, payers, and the public
- Addressing obesity bias, stigma, and disparities in care
Presented by authorities in medicine, surgery, pediatrics, nutrition, endocrinology, gastroenterology and psychology from the country’s leading obesity treatment centers, this course covers critical topics in the prevention and treatment of obesity and related disorders. It includes didactic lectures and panel discussions to improve participants’ ability to care for patients with obesity. In addition, an Obesity Medicine board review is offered for participants preparing for the American Board of Obesity Medicine board examination.
This course is designed to give health care providers the knowledge to:
- Identify, evaluate and manage patients with high-risk obesity
- Provide lifestyle-based therapies for obesity, including nutritional, physical activity, and behavioral approaches
- Apply effective counseling and behavioral modification techniques
- Apply current pharmacological approaches to the treatment of obesity
- Assess patients for their need and appropriateness for bariatric surgery and determine surgical options
One day prior to the start of Treating Obesity 2025, we offer a comprehensive one-day review course to help candidates prepare for the American Board of Obesity Medicine (ABOM) certification examination. This course is taught by diplomates of the ABOM, and reviews all the major basic, diagnostic and treatment concepts required for the exam, including:
- Pathophysiology of obesity
- Obesity comorbidities
- Pediatric patient management
- Genetic and syndromic obesity
- Nutrition and exercise assessment and intervention
- Intensive lifestyle and behavioral therapy
- Anti-obesity pharmacotherapy
- Bariatric surgery
What You’ll Get
- + Include: 101 videos + 78 pdfs, size: 26.7 GB
-  One-Time Payment — No Subscription
Access a complete, professionally organized learning package designed for healthcare professionals and academic learners.
Format & Access
- Format: video content + Digital PDF
- Access: On-Demand Access
- Viewing: Compatible with desktop, tablet, and mobile devices
Educational & Reference Use Only
This course is intended to support learning, academic study, and professional reference.
It does not provide medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment recommendations and should not replace professional clinical judgment or formal institutional guidance.
