TY - JOUR AU - Butsch, W. Scott AU - Kushner, Robert F. AU - Alford, Susan AU - Smolarz, B. Gabriel PY - 2020 DA - 2020/01/28 TI - Low priority of obesity education leads to lack of medical students’ preparedness to effectively treat patients with obesity: results from the U.S. medical school obesity education curriculum benchmark study JO - BMC Medical Education SP - 23 VL - 20 IS - 1 AB - Physicians are currently unprepared to treat patients with obesity, which is of great concern given the obesity epidemic in the United States. This study sought to evaluate the current status of obesity education among U.S. medical schools, benchmarking the degree to which medical school curricula address competencies proposed by the Obesity Medicine Education Collaborative (OMEC). SN - 1472-6920 UR - https://doi.org/10.1186/s12909-020-1925-z DO - 10.1186/s12909-020-1925-z ID - Butsch2020 ER -