Eating Disorder Treatment in Primary Care: Defying the Stereotype

Overview:

Eating Disorder Treatment in Primary Care: Defying the Stereotype

Rachel Walters, Psychology Resident

This lecture will provide an overview of eating concerns common in the primary care setting across the lifespan. This lecture will discuss the eating disorder stereotype and how it has impacted diagnosis and treatment for various populations. Negative outcomes associated with delayed diagnosis of disordered eating and treatment will be reviewed. The lecture will provide guidance to primary care providers and primary care team members on how to improve identification, treatment, and triage of disordered eating in the primary care setting.

By the end of the presentation, participants should be able to:

1.     Describe how the eating disorder stereotype impacts various populations in primary care.

2.     Identify disorder eating concerns in primary care settings.

3.     Discuss the importance of triage and intervention for patients with disordered eating concerns.

Presenter:

Rachel Walters

Psychology Resident, University of Indianapolis
UTHSCSA Integrated Primary Care Track

 

Financial Disclosures:

Rachel Walters has no financial relationships with ineligible companies to disclose.

The Family & Community Medicine Professional Development and Grand Rounds Committee members (Mark Nadeau, MD, MBA; Nehman Andry, MD; Maria Del Pilar Montanez Villacampa, MD, Stacy Ogbeide, PsyD; Yun Shi, MD, PhD; Marcy Wiemers, MD; Christine Song, DO; Gabriela Gibson-Lopez, PsyD; Margaret Finley, MD; Richel Avery, MD; Khorshid Amirkhosravi, MD; Jeff Svec, MD; Oralia Bazaldua, Pharm D; Kelsi Sexton Barajas, MA, MEd) have no financial relationships with ineligible companies to disclose.

The Family & Community Medicine Professional Development and Grand Rounds Committee member Carlos Roberto Jaén, MD has disclosed he receives royalties from General Practice and Family Medicine for being UpToDate Editor-in-Chief.

Credits:

AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ (1.00 hours), Non-Physician Participation Credit (1.00 hours)

Target Audience:

Specialties – Primary Care; Family Medicine
Faculty, residents, other health care providers and staff from our department; physicians and health care providers from San Antonio and South Texas; and medical students in our third-year clerkship and fourth year rotations.

Accreditation:

The UT Health Science Center San Antonio is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

Credit Designation:

The UT Health Science Center San Antonio designates this live activity up to a maximum of 1.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™.

Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Nurses and other healthcare professionals will receive a Certificate of Attendance. For information on applicability and acceptance, please consult your professional licensing board.

For activity related questions, please contact:
Name: Kelsi Sexton Barajas- FCM Grand Rounds Coordinator
Email: sextonk@uthscsa.edu

For CME general questions, please contact
Ph: (210) 567-4445
Email: cme@uthscsa.edu