The European Lifestyle Medicine Organization (ELMO), together with the Belgian Lifestyle Medicine Organization (BELMO), offer an evidence-based eight weeks online program with the support of the European lifestyle medicine representatives.

Why you should enroll in this course:

• Ιt is the only lifestyle medicine online program which offers clinical and practical skills to understand and practice lifestyle medicine.
• Υou will learn how to communicate with your patients based on Motivational Interviewing principles.
• Ηealthier professional mean healthier patients, so you will be mentored during the course to improve your own healthier lifestyle.
• Υou will be part of the biggest European lifestyle medicine practitioners network who followed the course.

The online course has already had fiftheen successful sessions and is developed and coordinated by the Scientific Director of the European Lifestyle Medicine Certificate and the Education Coordinator of the “European Lifestyle Medicine Organization”, Dr. Ioan Hanes, Belgium

Dr. Ioan Hanes is a medical doctor who lives and works in Brussels, Belgium. He is a clinical practitioner in lifestyle medicine, being the head of the Obesity Department of the Military Hospital (MeNuFit- Brussels) where he works as a certified medical nutritionist. He is also a clinical sexologist and medical expertise physician. He completed different lifestyle medicine related courses in the USA and Belgium. He has a strong interest in the field of sexual health and lifestyle medicine, a chapter which is developed only for the European Lifestyle Medicine Certificate but he is also teaching it in English in the online MSc in Lifestyle Medicine of the University of Thessaly, Greece. Dr Hanes is one of the co-coordinators of the first European Lifestyle Medicine Book. His multicultural background is reflected by the five languages he speaks fluently: English, French, Romanian, Hungarian and Dutch. He is the founder and president of the “Belgian Lifestyle Medicine Organization” (BELMO).

The ELMO certificate is addressed to medical professionals and eventually to those interested in a healthy lifestyle, who would like to develop and monitor a healthy lifestyle trajectory for their patients and for themselves. Upon registration we ask that all registrants include a copy of their main professional diploma. The exam will certify that graduated students master the lifestyle medicine principles and apply them in their practice.

 The Winter 2025 Certificate course is approaching! Registration is open now!  

The weekly online course is take place from 20th January to 18th March, 2025. The course has 33 hours of online sessions split between eight weeks of weekly courses, Motivational Interviewing, Practical Case and a Self-Care sessions, all mandatory. The online course, with a choice for the weekly day (Monday or Friday for the theoretical sessions, the three workshops are on Wednesdays) of the course established with the coordinator, from 18:00 to 21:00 (CET- Brussels Time) requires a mandatory presence of all participants for 75% of the total time. Until now, the average presence has always been more than 90%.   

Course Registration Fees (course and exam fees):

You can register by sending an email to the coordinator of the course, Dr. Ioan Hanes: hanesioan@yahoo.com

The payment, mentioning in communication European LM Certificate, can be done through bank transfer:
KBC Brussels Belgium
BIC/SWIFT code: KREDBEBB
IBAN: BE23 7340 4774 1991

Or via Paypal link: https://paypal.me/EUlifestylemedicine?country.x=BE&locale.x=en_US 

ELMO members have a 10% discount on the course fee. 

Objectives of the course:

1. Define lifestyle medicine and describe its essential components
2. Personal commitment to improve health choices in your own life through personalized guidance
3. Lifestyle medicine consultation in the health advisor practice
4. Identifying how lifestyle behaviors, including physical activity, nutrition, sleep, sexual health, chemical addictions, stress and technology could contribute to overall health
5. Describe the difference between the coach approach and the expert approach when counseling for therapeutic lifestyle changes
6. Motivational interviewing basics and practical exercises for behavior change
7. European lifestyle medicine initiatives in the prevention and treatment of lifestyle-related chronic diseases
8. How to communicate in a multidisciplinary and multiculturally environment
9. Developing critical reading of lifestyle medicine literature and material
10. To build up a network of European Lifestyle Medicine Certificate graduates in Europe and around the world

Contributors to the course:

Sunil Kumar, MD (UK)
Eleni Prifti, PhD (The Netherlands)
Aspa Kandyli, MSc (The Netherlands)
Pela Petraki Kavvadia, MD (Greece)
Kristal Lau, MD (France)
Konstantinos Vagias, BSc (Greece)
Monica Duraes, MD (Portugal)
Adnan Awad, MD (Sudan)
Beno Krachler, MD, PhD (Sweden)
Bela Grundmann, IT (Malta)

Participants will receive an invitation to join an online platform before each online meeting. To participate in the sessions, they are requested to have a laptop or desktop computer, internet connection, basic software (office tools, webs browser, media player, adobe reader) speakers or headphones.

The final exam will take place online and consist of two parts: MCQ and a personalized lifestyle medicine practical case. Those interested to obtain the certificate will have to participate in minimum 75% of the online training and to fulfill all the practical assessments.

Interested parties are asked to note that there is no possibility to only audit the course. The European Lifestyle Medicine Certificate has an important practical part which is mandatory together with the 75% of the presence required in the theoretical part of the course. Refusing to submit, in time, the practical assignments during the course could lead to the exclusion from the course, without a financial reimbursement. The registration in the course means you accept these conditions.

Participants will not need further documentation other than their presence during the online sessions.

The interactive course is a practical lifestyle medicine skills developing program so places are limited.The success of the fiftheen previous sessions with more than 400 students from fifty six countries are proof of the effectiveness of our teaching methods. All teaching materials in the course are under copyright laws and multiplication or registering them are prohibited.

Take the chance to be a graduate of the first and unique scientific European certificate in lifestyle medicine!

BE ELMO!