Asheville Family Medicine Residency

Welcome to a powerful approach for preventing, managing, and reversing chronic health conditions through lifestyle and behavioral changes.

Our Lifestyle Medicine Residency Curriculum, the first in North Carolina, builds on MAHEC’s tradition of delivering innovative medical education and whole-person care. It also takes advantage of Asheville’s abundance of outdoor sports and recreation, parks and greenways, local farms, and wellness practices.

A Whole-Person Approach

Lifestyle medicine focuses on six key areas:

• healthful eating
• physical activity
• stress management
• improving sleep
• avoiding toxic substances
• forming and maintaining relationships

This evidence-based approach provides physicians with powerful tools to partner with patients to improve overall health and well-being. By preventing, treating, and even reversing conditions such as diabetes, hypertension and high cholesterol, lifestyle medicine can make a significant impact on health and well-being across the lifespan.

Integrated Learning

All MAHEC residents are eligible to participate in the LMRC and have the opportunity to become board eligible in Lifestyle Medicine if they so desire. Upon completion of the curriculum, residents will qualify to sit for the American Board of Lifestyle Medicine certification exam after graduation.

Lifestyle Medicine Modules

• Introduction to Lifestyle Medicine
• Role of Physician Health and the Physician’s Personal Health
• Nutrition Science, Assessment, and Prescription
• Physical Activity, Science, and Prescription
• Sleep Health, Science, and Interventions
• Managing Tobacco Cessation and Other Toxic Exposures
• Fundamentals of Health Behavioral Change
• Key Clinical Processes in Lifestyle Medicine
• Emotional and Mental Well-Being Assessment and Interventions
• The Role of Connectedness and Positive Psychology

Program Director

Boone Marois, MD
Family Medicine
Director, Lifestyle Medicine Residency Curriculum
Assistant Director, Transitional Year Residency Program