Health Care Provider Confidence and Exercise Prescription Practices of Exercise is Medicine Canada Workshop Attendees

The Exercise is Medicine Canada (EIMC) initiative promotes physical activity counseling and exercise prescription within health care. The purpose of this study was to evaluate perceptions and practices around physical activity counselling and exercise prescription in healthcare professionals before and after EIMC training. Prior to and directly following EIMC workshops, 209 participants; physicians (n=113); allied health professionals (AHPs) (n=54), including primarily nurses (n=36) and others; exercise professionals (EPs) (n=23), including kinesiologists (n=16), physiotherapists (n=5) and personal trainers (n=2) from 7 provinces completed self-reflection questionnaires. Compared to AHPs, physicians saw more patients (78% > 15 pts/day vs 93%The accepted manuscript in pdf format is listed with the files at the bottom of this page. The presentation of the authors' names and (or) special characters in the title of the manuscript may differ slightly between what is listed on this page and what is listed in the pdf file of the accepted manuscript; that in the pdf file of the accepted manuscript is what was submitted by the author