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Move Eat Treat
The Move Eat Treat campaign promotes the importance of preventative medicine with the aim of eventually developing a healthcare system, which doesn’t wait until patients become ill before it acts, but works to keep the population healthy – a true health service that is proactive rather than reactive.
The campaign believes that the best way to achieve this is through educating healthcare professionals on how to deliver effective lifestyle advice leading to a sea-change in culture within the healthcare system to one that assertively seeks prevention instead of cure. This will be followed by policy and organisational changes to prioritise prevention via promotion of healthy lifestyles.
Move Eat Treat believes that lifestyle should be a core theme of healthcare education, alongside other key pillars such as anatomy, physiology, and pathology and wants to pave the way for updated curriculums for both undergraduates and current healthcare professionals.
In this workshop, Move Eat Treat Director Sean Carmody will demonstrate ways that healthcare professionals can advise their patients on lifestyle habits. Following a survey which revealed a lack of lifestyle education in medical school curricula, he will discuss the outcomes of a pilot lifestyle teaching session. Sean is a fourth year medical student President of the Hull York Medical School Society of Sport and Exercise Medicine. He is a keen sportsman, and has recently been capped in Rugby at senior international level.
