What we cover

  • Understanding obesity: explore the underlying pathophysiology and social determinants
  • Changing pharmacological landscape: gain insights into the mechanisms, safety profiles and clinical applications of new obesity medications, including the practicalities of prescribing
  • Case-based learning: analyse real-world examples and patient scenarios to see how emerging therapies are applied in practice, plus hear patient insights as they share their experiences
  • Lifestyle and behavioural interventions: learn strategies for integrating nutritional counselling, physical activity, sleep hygiene and behavioural therapy into treatment plans
  • Managing comorbidities: understand the relationship between obesity and related conditions such as diabetes, cardiovascular disease and mental health
  • Confident conversations and coaching skills: learn from behaviour-change experts Dr Hart and Dr Williams, with practical tips to help you embed coaching frameworks into clinical practice.

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, Presenter and Lifestyle Medicine Course Lead

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Dr Kate Grint

GP and Red Whale Clinical Director

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Dr Sara Wood 

GP, Presenter and Author  

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Dr Nik Kendrew

GP, Course and Podcast Presenter 

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Dr Lee David

GP, Presenter and Mental Health Course Lead 

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Dr Michael Horsfield 

GP, Presenter and Author

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Dr Susan Waldron

GP, Presenter and Author 

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Dr Jackie Dominey 

GP and Presenter

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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

“ Really easy to follow, excellent explanations of topics. I really appreciate the use of step by step diagrams and animations, summaries, and key take home messages. ”
“ Really useful overview of latest guideline changes and poorly understood/less common topics. Clear and helpful variation in presentation to keep focus and prevent information overload. The GEMS are amazingly useful in everyday practice. ”
“ Brilliantly thorough covering topics well outside of what I expected in relation to obesity, which just shows how multi faceted it is as a topic. ”
“ Very clear, engaging and comprehensive. really enjoyed the patient point of view and the many case scenarios. ”

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