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Weight Bias: Providing Better Care for Patients with Obesity
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Munson Healthcare

1105 Sixth Street
Traverse City, MI 49684
General Information
Thursday, February 27, 2025 - Sunday, February 27, 2028
60 minutes
Munson Healthcare
Virtual Conference Room
2025 MHC MI Licensure Sessions
Munson Healthcare
Objectives
  • Differentiate between weight bias, weight stigma, and weight discrimination.
  • Describe the impact of weight bias on patients’ physical and emotional health.
  • Recognize how weight bias can negatively influence care for patients with obesity.
  • Reflect upon your own practices of working with patients with obesity.
Presentations and Speakers
Weight Bias: Providing Better Care for Patients with Obesity
  • Heather Trudeau, PA - PA-C, DFAAPA
Available Credits/Points
  • Munson Healthcare designates this enduring material for a maximum of 1 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
  • The American Osteopathic Organization recognizes AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™ as AOA Category 2 credit. This activity will be submitted to the American Osteopathic Association-Division of CME. Designation of credit is pending approval by the AOA-CCME.
    The American Osteopathic Organization recognizes American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP) Prescribed and Elective Credit as AOA Category 2 credit. This activity will be submitted to the American Osteopathic Association-Division of CME. Designation of credit is pending approval by the AOA-CCME.
A 60-minute recorded webinar on the topic of weight bias in healthcare. It will include an overview of Differentiate between weight bias, weight stigma, and weight discrimination as well as impact of weight bias on patients’ physical and emotional health. It will also include a discussion on weight bias can negatively influence care for patients with obesity and prompts for reflecting upon your own practices of working with patients with obesity.
  • This activity meets the MI state requirement for 1 hour(s) of implicit bias education.
Disclosure Statements
In accordance with the ACCME Standards for Integrity and Independence in Accredited Continuing Education, Munson Healthcare will implement mechanisms to identify and mitigate relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies for all individuals in a position to control content of this activity.
Speakers:
Heather Trudeau, PA has no financial relationship(s) with ineligible companies whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients to disclose.

Accreditation Statement
  • Munson Healthcare is accredited by the Michigan State Medical Society to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
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