Despite the growing understanding of obesity as a chronic, relapsing disease, many primary care clinicians still feel unprepared to discuss it, treat it effectively, or navigate the emotional terrain that often surrounds it. That’s why The France Foundation developed “Practical Strategies to Navigate Obesity Management in Primary Care,” a learning model that meets clinicians where they are and adapts to how they learn best. It’s one activity delivered two ways.

Our educational activity starts with the same core objective: to help primary care clinician improve their confidence and skills in managing patients with overweight or obesity using current guidelines and motivational communication strategies.

Learners can choose between two distinct paths:

1. The IMPACT Enhanced Publication

   This peer-reviewed, digitally enriched article offers a visually dynamic reading experience, integrating:

   • Embedded expert video commentary
   • Interactive visuals and clinical decision trees
   • Case vignettes with click-to-reveal takeaways
   • Evidence-backed content grounded in national guidelines

   It’s a frictionless entry point for learners who prefer a self-paced, publication-style format—perfect for those who like to scroll and study.

2. The Interactive Case-Based Module

   This immersive learning simulation delivers:

   • A branching series of real-world clinical cases
   • Decision-making moments with immediate feedback
   • Scenario-based learning grounded in patient-centered communication
   • Faculty-informed guidance on applying treatment plans and medication choices

   Practice makes progress; this module is designed to guide clinicians to make more informed, practical choices in real time.

Primary care clinicians are asking for education that acknowledges the complexity of obesity—not just the pathophysiology, but the human conversations, competing priorities, and real-world constraints they navigate every day.

This activity addresses those needs by helping learners:

• Differentiate between evidence-based treatment options, including the latest guidance on anti-obesity medications (AOMs)
• Practice using motivational interviewing and shared decision-making, without fear of getting it wrong
• Translate guidelines into real conversations, particularly when patients are unsure, discouraged, or skeptical
• Gain confidence in their ability to build treatment plans that reflect both the science and the patient’s lived experience

Whether learners are deep readers or visual thinkers, hands-on practitioners or reflective processors, this activity gives them a format that fits and content that sticks. Learners who engage with the activity also have the opportunity to practice with CaseCoach, our AI-powered assistant that reinforces strategies through simulated patient interactions and faculty-informed feedback.

Obesity remains one of the most pressing and misunderstood public health challenges of our time, but flexible, evidence-based, clinically relevant education is part of the solution. This program offers a model for education that drives real practice change and meets clinicians in the formats they prefer. Rooted in both science and empathy, it opens the door to multiple ways of learning, multiple layers of reinforcement, and multiple reasons to believe in what’s next.

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