What we cover

  • Why is lifestyle medicine needed?
  • The scale of the problem 
  • What is a modern developed lifestyle?
  • The social determinants of health 
  • 6 pillars of lifestyle medicine - nutrition; physical activity; sleep; minimizing harmful substances; mental wellbeing and stress; healthy relationships
  • Putting lifestyle medicine into practice - as a practice and at network/cluster level
  • National initiatives e.g. Active and Parkrun
  • Group consultations
  • Health coaching and behaviour change
  • Starting a walk, jog or swim group at your practice, network or cluster
  • Completing the Red Whale Lifestyle Medicine course and reading the associated articles will provide the additional training required to practice as a GPwERLM.

What you get

Option to attend the live online event(s) which takes place during your subscription, for an interactive experience
Watch anytime during your subscription
6 hours teaching
Fully chapterised course so you can dip in and out of topics
1 year access to the course on demand to learn any time it suits you
Pick up where you left off and re-watch sections as you like

Meet the team

Dr Hussain Al-Zubaidi 

GP and Lifestyle Medicine and Obesity Medicine Course Lead

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Dr Kate Grint

GP and Red Whale Clinical Director

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Dr Nik Kendrew

GP and Podcast Lead

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Dr Lucy Jenkins

GP and Red Whale Clinician

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Dr Susan Waldron

GP and Urgent and On-The-Day Primary Care Course Lead

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Dr Michael Horsfield 

GP and MSK and Chronic Pain Course Lead

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Dr Lee David

GP and Mental Health and CAMH Course Lead

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Red Whale Knowledge

Includes 1 year access to Red Whale Knowledge - our library of 900+ online written resources (if you already have a subscription, we'll extend your expiry date by 1 year)

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Learning the Red Whale way

We design our courses to be a little bit different to ones you might have booked or attended in the past!

  • Varied teaching styles to optimise engagement
  • Evidence based content and education tools enhance learning & delegate experience
  • Engaging content: stories, humour, cases, WhaleArt and more
  • Our presenters are practising GPs: they focus on getting learning into practice while understanding the realities of the day job!
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What our customers say about our courses

“ Brilliant learning platform, quality of content and varied delivery methods. Kept me engaged the whole day (which is something for me!) ”
— Physical activity professional, Lifestyle Medicine course attendee
“ Fantastic course on a part of medicine which is hugely important but often neglected from med school curriculum/ further training. This will empower our patients and ensure we are practising holistic medicine. ”
— GPST, Lifestyle Medicine course attendee
“ I was new to life style medicine and this has given an excellent insight in how to make changes in my area. I feel these future changes will be of significant benefit to my patients. ”
— GP, Lifestyle Medicine course attendee
“ Really informative and inspiring. Useful tips on how to practically initiate incorporating lifestyle medicine into our practice. ”
— GPST, Lifestyle Medicine course attendee
“ Very good topics, well delivered, ties into every day General Practice and long term management of conditions. Interested also for my own health and well being and the rest of my family. ”
— GP, Lifestyle Medicine course attendee

Ready to buy our Lifestyle Medicine course?

Live Digital Course

£210

Pay Monthly

Red Whale Unlimited

£39.95 per month

(12 month minimum term)
Unlimited access to any online course on demand 24/7
Attend live-hosted online events for ANY Red Whale course
450+ video 'Bytes' — bite-sized on demand learning
Access any live-hosted Lifestyle Medicine online event
Access Lifestyle Medicine on demand
Red Whale Knowledge access — 900+ searchable articles and GEMS
CPD tracking and FourteenFish integration