European Lifestyle Medicine Certificate: Health & Fitness Lifestyle Advisor

An evidence-based, interactive European training programme designed to help health professionals translate Lifestyle Medicine from scientific knowledge into everyday practice.

10 weeks online | 30 hours of live teaching | Practical cases | International faculty

21 completed cohorts | 650+ participants | 60 countries

Why choose the ELMO Certificate?

Lifestyle Medicine is more than knowing what constitutes a healthy lifestyle. Health professionals need the skills to translate evidence into meaningful and sustainable behaviour change. The European Lifestyle Medicine Certificate combines scientific knowledge with practical application.

What will you learn?

1. Nutrition: explore evidence-based nutrition principles and their practical application in lifestyle medicine.
2. Physical Activity: understand the role of physical activity, sedentary behaviour and fitness in health, prevention and chronic disease management.
3. Sleep: recognise the importance of sleep quality and duration and their interaction with metabolic, psychological and overall health.
4. Stress: explore stress, resilience and practical, including mindfullness meditation approaches to supporting healthier coping behaviours.
5. Addictive & Risk Behaviours: understand the impact of tobacco, alcohol and other addictive behaviours and the principles of behaviour change.
6. Sexual Health & Intimacy: explore sexual health as an extra lifestyle pillar, an important and often overlooked component of overall health and quality of life.
7. Environmental Health: the second extra European lifestyle medicine pillar, to understand how environment influence lifestyle choices and health.
8. Self-Care: how you can take care about yourself and how you can prescribe a lifestyle intervention about it.
9. Lifestyle Medicine Consultation&Communication: models to structure a lifestyle medicine approach related consultation. Practical sessions on Motivational Interviewing.

Behaviour change at the centre

Knowing what people should change is rarely enough to help them change it. For this reason, behaviour change and communication are central components of the ELMO Certificate.

Participants are introduced to the principles of Motivational Interviewing and learn to distinguish between an expert-driven approach and a collaborative approach to lifestyle counselling.

Through practical exercises, participants develop skills in:

• active and empathic listening;
• identifying motivation and readiness for change;
• exploring ambivalence;
• collaborative goal setting;
• supporting realistic and sustainable lifestyle changes;
• communicating across different professional and cultural backgrounds.

Who is the Certificate for?

The programme is designed primarily for healthcare professionals and others working in health, prevention and wellbeing, including: medical doctors, nurses and allied health professionals, dietitians and nutrition professionals, physiotherapists and exercise professionals, psychologists and other health professionals, students in health-related disciplines. Applications from professionals from other relevant backgrounds who are interested in a career change or complementary work may be considered individually. Participants are asked to provide evidence of their principal professional qualification or student status when registering.

Learning objectives

By completing the programme, participants should be able to:

1. Define Lifestyle Medicine and explain its principal components.
2. Recognise how lifestyle behaviours contribute to health and lifestyle-related chronic disease.
3. Assess major lifestyle determinants within a health consultation.
4. Translate Lifestyle Medicine evidence into practical recommendations.
5. Understand the difference between an expert approach and a collaborative behaviour-change approach.
6. Apply basic Motivational Interviewing principles in lifestyle-related conversations.
7. Develop realistic lifestyle goals with patients or clients.
8. Reflect on and improve aspects of their own lifestyle.
9. Communicate effectively within multidisciplinary and multicultural environments.
10. Critically evaluate Lifestyle Medicine information and scientific literature.

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Meet the faculty

Learn from an international and multidisciplinary faculty with experience in Lifestyle Medicine and its related fields.

Beyond the Certificate

How the Certificate works

Duration: 10 weeks | Format: Live online teaching | Teaching time: 30 hours
Weekly sessions: One 3-hour session per week on Monday or on Friday
Additional activities: Practical assignments and optional workshops
Attendance requirement: Minimum 75%
Assessment: Practical assignments + final online examination
Final examination: Multiple-choice questions and a personalised Lifestyle Medicine practical case

Participants must meet the attendance requirements and successfully complete the required practical assessments to be eligible for certification.
Because practical participation is an integral part of the programme, the Certificate is not available as an audit-only course.

Course fees:

Medical doctors:	740 EUR
Allied health professionals and other eligible professionals:	630 EUR
Students:	420 EUR

ELMO members: 10% reduction in the applicable course fee

The fee includes participation in the programme and the final examination.

You can register by sending an email to: eulmcertificate@gmail.com

The payment, mentioned in the communication European LM Certificate, can be done through bank transfer:

1. KBC Brussels Belgium
   BIC/SWIFT code: KREDBEBB
   IBAN: BE23 7340 4774 1991
2. Or via the Paypal link: https://paypal.me/EUlifestylemedicine?country.x=BE&locale.x=en_US 

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Next cohort
| SPRING 2027 |

Dates: starts Monday 11 January 2027 and ends on Friday 19 March 2027. Exam on Sunday April 4, 2027
Live sessions: Monday / Friday | Time: 18:00–21:00 CET (Brussels time)
Format: Online | Language: English

Places are limited to preserve the interactive and practical nature of the programme.
Once the course started, the registration fee is not reimbursable.

Frequently Asked Questions

Is the Certificate completely online?
Yes. The teaching sessions and final examination are delivered online.

Do I need to attend every session
Participants must attend at least 75% of the required teaching time and complete the mandatory practical components. The workshops on Wednesday are optional.

Is the programme only for medical doctors?
No. The Certificate welcomes medical doctors, allied health professionals, students and other eligible professionals working or intending to work in health and wellbeing.

Is this only a theoretical course?
No. Practical application is a defining element of the programme. Participants work with cases, behaviour-change exercises and practical assignments throughout the course so the sessions are not recorded.

Can I attend without taking the examination?
The programme is designed as an integrated Certificate pathway rather than an audit-only course. Participants seeking certification must fulfil the attendance, practical and examination requirements.

How is the final examination organised?
The final two hours online assessment includes 30 multiple-choice questions and a personalised Lifestyle Medicine practical case.

What happens after I graduate?
Graduates become part of the international ELMO Certificate community (receive a complementary one year ELMO membership) and may have opportunities to participate in other ELMO educational initiatives, workshops and benefit of 10% reduction of the yearly ELMO Congress registration fee.

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