Becker's Healthcare April 1, 2025
Finding behavioral health providers is hard. Finding providers equipped to treat eating disorders is harder, according to Howard Weeks, MD, chief medical officer at Eating Recovery Center and Pathlight Mood and Anxiety Center.
Eating Recovery Center is launching its own two-year residency program to train physicians, physician assistants, nurse practitioners and other professionals on treating eating disorders.
“This is intensive work. It’s not something where you can go to a weekend course and be certified,” Dr. Weeks said. “This takes treating several hundred patients, and seeing them for an extended period of time. We’ve developed a very robust curriculum that would match what you see in any formal residency.”
Providers have advocated for a formal residency program to train physicians...
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