TY - JOUR AU - Arciniegas Calle, Maria C. AU - Lobelo, Felipe AU - Jiménez, Mario A. AU - Páez, Diana C. AU - Cortés, Sebastian AU - de Lima, Andrés AU - Duperly, John PY - 2016 DA - 2016/12/05 TI - One-day workshop-based training improves physical activity prescription knowledge in Latin American physicians: a pre-test post-test study JO - BMC Public Health SP - 1224 VL - 16 IS - 1 AB - The physical inactivity pandemic and related non-communicable diseases have made it imperative for medical doctors (MDs) to effectively provide lifestyle counseling as part of prevention and treatment plans for patients. A one-day certification workshop was designed to improve MDs PA prescription knowledge, as part of the Exercise is Medicine® (EIM®) global health initiative. The objective was to determine knowledge gain of MDs participating in a standardized, one-day PA prescription workshop performed throughout Latin America (LA). SN - 1471-2458 UR - https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-016-3883-2 DO - 10.1186/s12889-016-3883-2 ID - Arciniegas Calle2016 ER -