Continuing Education

OWH Free Accredited Training Series

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Office on Women’s Health (OWH) is excited to announce a free accredited training series for pediatric and adolescent healthcare providers. This online series offers evidence-based strategies for compassionate, targeted weight management and obesity prevention in girls. Physicians, doctors of osteopathy, dietitians, physician assistants, nurse practitioners, and nurses will earn 1 CME/CEU credit for completing each 1-hour training module.

Part 1 of the series consists of two training modules:

  1. Improving Care for Adolescent Girls: The Importance of Addressing Weight Bias,
  2. Child and Adolescent Weight Management: Guidelines, Guidance, and Goals.

Improving Care for Adolescent Girls: The Importance of Addressing Weight Bias

This training module offers strategies for communicating with adolescent girls who have overweight/obesity, as well as with their caregivers. It also presents ways to reduce weight bias among healthcare providers. The training module includes a 1-hour recorded webinar presented by Rebecca Puhl, Ph.D., professor of Human Development & Family Studies and Deputy Director of the Rudd Center for Food Policy & Obesity at the University of Connecticut.

Learning Objectives

After completing this training module, healthcare providers will be able to:

  • Describe weight stigma experienced by pediatric and adolescent girls and its links with poor health.
  • Explain how healthcare provider weight bias affects patient-provider communications and quality of care for pediatric and adolescent girls.
  • Identify strategies that providers can use to reduce weight bias and ensure sensitive, compassionate care for pediatric and adolescent girls affected by obesity.

Healthcare Provider Resource Toolkit

  • Awareness of Weight Bias in Healthcare
  • How To Reduce Weight Bias With Girls in Your Healthcare Practice 
  • Improving Care for Adolescent Girls: The Importance of Addressing Weight Bias
  • Weight Management Conversations With Girls and Caregivers: Communication Tips for Providers
  • Online Weight Bias Resources for Providers

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Child and Adolescent Weight Management: Guidelines, Guidance, and Goals

This training module offers strategies for implementing current guidelines for treatment and prevention of obesity in childhood. It includes a 1-hour recorded webinar presented by Sandra Hassink, M.D., FAAP, Director of the American Academy of Pediatrics Institute for Healthy Childhood Weight.

Learning Objectives

After completing this training module, healthcare providers will be able to:

  • Understand current guidelines for treatment and prevention of obesity in childhood.
  • Understand the role of the practice team and clinical workflow in operationalizing obesity guidelines.
  • Initiate changes in practice workflow to implement obesity prevention and treatment guidelines.

Healthcare Provider Resource Toolkit

  • Algorithm for the Assessment and Management of Childhood Obesity (AAP Institute for Healthy Childhood Weight)
  • Child and Adolescent Weight Management: Guidelines, Guidance, and Goals
  • How To Calculate and Communicate BMI Information Effectively
  • Self-Assessment of Application of Childhood and Adolescent Obesity Clinical Guidelines
  • Tips for Finding Resources for Pediatric Weight Management
  • Online Resources for Providers

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Credentialing Organizations

CME/CE accreditation for the following professions:

Physicians, Physician Assistants, and Doctors of Osteopathy: Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) AMA PRA Category 1 Credit

Nurses: American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC)

Nurse Practitioners: American Association of Nurse Practitioners (AANP)

Dietitians: Commission on Dietetic Registration (CDR)

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Questions?

For questions please contact Valerie Borden at Valerie.borden@hhs.gov.