American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP)
Residency Program Adds a Yuck Factor to Ready, Set, FIT!
When the six second-year family medicine residents at Hunterdon Family Medicine Residency in Flemington, NJ sat down to talk about their community medicine requirement, they quickly agreed they wanted to focus on childhood obesity. With that decision out of the way, they began to research ideas. Lisa Flores, MD, Hunterdon’s co-chief resident, suggested Ready, Set, FIT!, the AAFP’s school-based fitness education program. When the residents found that the AAFP provides all the materials, and that the program is comprehensive, with lessons on physical activity, healthy eating and emotional well-being, their decision was made.
This wasn’t Hunterdon’s first experience with AAFP school-based initiatives. Their residents had previously presented Tar Wars, the AAFP’s tobacco prevention program. For those presentations, residents incorporated medical models of normal and diseased lungs. The kids had responded enthusiastically to the hands-on lessons.
Residency Program Adds a Yuck Factor to Ready, Set, FIT!
When the six second-year family medicine residents at Hunterdon Family Medicine Residency in Flemington, NJ sat down to talk about their community medicine requirement, they quickly agreed they wanted to focus on childhood obesity. With that decision out of the way, they began to research ideas. Lisa Flores, MD, Hunterdon’s co-chief resident, suggested Ready, Set, FIT!, the AAFP’s school-based fitness education program. When the residents found that the AAFP provides all the materials, and that the program is comprehensive, with lessons on physical activity, healthy eating and emotional well-being, their decision was made.
This wasn’t Hunterdon’s first experience with AAFP school-based initiatives. Their residents had previously presented Tar Wars, the AAFP’s tobacco prevention program. For those presentations, residents incorporated medical models of normal and diseased lungs. The kids had responded enthusiastically to the hands-on lessons.