CME Opportunity: Advance Your Skills in Pediatric Obesity Care

Registration is now open for the OMA Academy's Pediatric Obesity Care: Basics & Beyond, a hybrid (on-demand + live-virtual) course designed for healthcare professionals who treat children, adolescents, and young adults with obesity.
 
Before the live virtual session on Saturday, October 18, participants will complete six expert-led, on-demand modules/webinars, covering key topics like evaluation and assessment, nutrition, treatment modalities, psychosocial support, pharmacotherapy, and metabolic & bariatric surgery. The course culminates in a half-day interactive session featuring clinical case discussions in small breakout groups where participants can interact with course faculty and bring questions and case scenarios.

Registration is limited to just 140 participants—save your seat before it fills up!
Registration: https://academy.obesitymedicine.org/content/pediatric-obesity-care-basics-beyond-demand-live-virtual?_zs=hj3cf&_zl=Rgkb4

About the Course:
Pediatric Obesity Care: Basics & Beyond is a multi-module hybrid (on-demand + live-virtual) course designed to provide introductory education on evidence-based strategies for evaluating, diagnosing, and treating pediatric obesity in clinical settings. This course is appropriate for physicians, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, clinicians-in-training, and other healthcare providers who care for children, adolescents, and young adults with obesity.

Prior to the live-virtual session, participants will complete six on-demand webinars covering key topics, including:
1. The Disease of Obesity in Youth
2. Evaluation and Assessment
3. Obesity Treatment Modalities 
4. Behavioral/Psycho-social Support 
5. Pharmacotherapy 
6. Metabolic & Bariatric Surgery

*These lectures will be available for viewing beginning in September 2025.
On Saturday, October 18, participants will join a live, interactive half-day virtual session featuring expert-led breakout groups. In these sessions, attendees will collaborate on clinical case discussions and apply course content to develop comprehensive treatment plans.

Cost of course: $200
Credit: 8.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™