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Dr. Jim Reynolds: Health Coaching Evaluation — Measuring the ROI on Healthcare Utilization and Costs.Click here to listen.
Kate Larsen: Finding Success in Health Behavior Change.Click here to listen.
Paul Terry: Calculating the Health Coaching ROI: Models and Results.Click here to listen.
Dr. Ruth Wolever: Using motivational interviewing for behavior change.Click here to listen.
Sean Slovenski: Key questions to ask during the coaching vetting process.Click here to listen.
Jennifer Hidding: New developments — coaching without a coach, holistic coaching, online personal health coaching and President Bush's mandate for mental healthcare parityClick here to listen.
Roger Reed: How online personal health coaching methods will affect traditional coaching methods. Click here to listen.
Dr. Richard Bedrosian: Binge eating disorder and its impact on healthcare costs in the United States.Click here to listen.
Q and A: Will PCPs be trained in health coaching theory?
This week's expert is Dr. Karen Lawson, program director for the health coaching track at the Center for Spirituality and Healing, University of Minnesota.
Question: Will PCPs eventually be trained in health coaching theory as delivery of primary care changes?
Response: (Karen Lawson) One can only hope. All of the healthcare educational programs in medicine right now are feeling the squeeze of time, money and the need to perhaps shorten training programs rather than lengthen them. My gut is that we’re going to see the increasing availability of exposure to these skills and tools to physicians in a continuing education (CE) realm, in a post-residency realm. If there is movement by the national academies, particularly in family practice and pediatrics, to move this more into primary care, then we’ll see it start to show up at least in some small way in the residency training programs. It’s probably down the road before this plays a role in basic primary medical education.
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