Eating Well in Practice: Partnering with Patients to Engage the Healing Power of Food

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On-Demand CME Course: Eating Well in Practice 

This course will help you make nutrition counseling one of the most practical—and powerful—tools in your clinical toolkit. In this fast-paced, one-hour online CME course, learn to assess diet-related risk, uncover food-related social needs, and deliver clear, culturally responsive, evidence-based guidance that patients can realistically use. Build skills in behavior change, mindful eating, bias-aware communication, and planet-forward food choices to help patients improve health without prescribing a one-size-fits-all diet.

Move beyond “eat more vegetables” and turn nutrition counseling into an energizing part of everyday care. Eating Well in Practice offers ready-to-use tools for partnering with patients to uncover realistic, culturally meaningful food-related changes that fit their lives, support disease prevention, and improve health—one doable step at a time. 

This activity meets the nutrition and metabolic health CME requirement: one hour of continuing medical education focused on nutrition and metabolic health.

Learning Objectives:

At the completion of this activity, the learner will be able to:

  • Develop simple, actionable, effective, and culturally responsive nutrition and food recommendations tailored to individual patients’ needs to support disease prevention and treatment.

  • Screen for social determinants of health impacting diet and food choice and make appropriate referrals.

  • Assess a patient’s risk for diet-related conditions, such as metabolic syndrome, with a brief diet and food history, anthropometric measurements, and laboratory tests.

  • Explain, in clear and culturally responsive language, the nutritional value of common foods and ingredients and how food-processing methods may affect health outcomes.

  • Utilize evidence-based models of behavior change to effectively partner with patients to improve dietary patterns and health.

  • Guide patients through various mindfulness techniques to support healthier eating patterns.

  • Identify foods and production techniques that benefit both planetary and human health.

  • Explore one’s own biases about food, obesity, exercise, and “healthy eating.”

Audience

This symposium is intended health professionals and clinicians including MD / DO, nurse practitioners, physican assistants, registered nurses, researchers, and other allied health professionals interested in better educating patients on holistic nutrition strategies.  

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Course Format & Cancellation Policies

Registration Fee: $25.00

This course is a recorded, on-demand course offering, made available online through Canvas Instructure. Once purchased, you will have access to the course for 365 days. All sales of on-demand online classes are final. No refunds will be made for cancellations. 

Accessibility:

If you require an accommodation for effective communication (ASL interpreting/CART captioning, alternative media formats, etc.) to fully participate in this event, please contact Michelle Meyer at (510) 642-8365 or mmeyer@berkeley.edu. 

Center for Occupational and Environmental Health

Accreditation:

This course is offered on a pass / fail basis for continuing education credit. Learners must complete all of the course videos, and receive a 70% or higher on the post-course quiz, to pass the course and obtain a Certificate of Completion. 

The Center for Occupational and Environmental Health is accredited by the California Medical Association to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

The Center for Occupational and Environmental Health designates this online enduring material for a maximum of 1.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Provider approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing, Provider Number 12983, for 1.00 contact hours. 

Disclosure:

No individuals involved in the planning or presentation of this activity have any relevant financial relationships with commercial interests to disclose. There were no relevant financial relationships to be mitigated.

Released: September 2026

Expires: August 2029