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Table 1 Six-Week ‘MED-WELL’ programme schedule

From: A feasibility study of an exercise intervention to educate and promote health and well-being among medical students: the ‘MED-WELL’ programme

Exercise Curriculum

Educational Curriculum

Educator

Week 1: Sports Yoga

Exercise as Medicine: PA for student wellness and patient use for exercise as a treatment

Academic General practitioner

Week 2: High Intensity Interval Training

Practical Applications: Prescribing PA for patients with chronic diseases: Case study of Diabetes

Academic General practitioner

Week 3: Body Pump

PA importance, regular health enhancing Dose Response Curve; Understanding people and PA stages of change (SOC-PA)

Academic in PA and health

Week 4: Pilates

Why not exercise? Overcoming resistance

Academic General practitioner

Week 5: Pilates - Respiratory Focus

Staying motivated for exercise

Academic Pharmacist

Week 6: Sports Yoga using drum-beat

Behavior Change: Relating behavior change wheel to PA promotion in practice

Research fellow