Your Lifestyle Medics
The clinical perspective
Whole-person thinking, lifestyle medicine content and a practical approach to helping people make meaningful changes.
A shared course. A whole-person approach.
Lifestyle medicine.
Made practical.
Bring lifestyle medicine into everyday clinical care through 12 highly interactive modules. Step into realistic scenarios, speak with a virtual patient and practise the conversations that turn evidence into a plan. Created for doctors in Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand, with the complete course handbook included.
12 modulesA clear course through lifestyle medicine
Learn by doingPatient conversations, cases and reflection
126 pagesYour complete companion handbook
PassGP × Your Lifestyle Medics
Clinical expertise. Thoughtful learning.
A shared commitment to making lifestyle medicine understandable, engaging and useful in real consultations.
Specialist GP · Founder, Your Lifestyle Medics
Lead clinical author and content expert
Two complementary strengths.
One joined-up course.
Your Lifestyle Medics brings the clinical perspective of Dr Marissa Kelaher, a specialist GP with additional training in lifestyle medicine. PassGP brings the educational design and digital delivery that turn this knowledge into an active learning experience.
Together, we connect the evidence with the conversations, decisions and practical challenges that shape everyday care.
PassGP
The learning experience
Immersive modules, virtual patient conversations and a clear pathway from understanding to application.
Immersive learning. Active participation.
Step into the consultation.
Talk with a virtual patient, make clinical choices and reflect on how you would support change. Bring your voice, your judgement and your curiosity to the learning.
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Interactive by design
Move between focused teaching, realistic cases and knowledge checks. Make choices as you work through each topic, then explore the reasoning behind them.
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Speak with a virtual patient
Selected activities invite you into spoken patient interactions. Practise asking questions, exploring priorities and responding with empathy — bringing clinical communication into your learning.
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Bring it back to practice
Reflect on what you noticed, how you responded and what could make the next conversation more useful. Connect each experience with your companion handbook.
Try the learning styleBehaviour change
Where would you begin?
“I know I need to make a change. I just can’t seem to stick to it.”
Choose a response to explore the approach.
A short decision-making example. The enrolled course also includes spoken virtual patient activities. Your selection here is not saved.
Your course, from start to finish
Twelve modules. Connected thinking.
Build your understanding across seven topic areas. Open a module below to explore its focus.
01Behaviour changeFrom advice to action
Explore patient-centred conversations, readiness for change and practical goals that fit the person in front of you.
02Behaviour changeThe evidence on habit
Connect the science of motivation and habit formation with realistic strategies for supporting lasting change.
03NutritionAdd before you cut
Explore constructive nutrition conversations, food patterns and practical changes that patients can build on.
04NutritionFood first
Bring nutrition evidence into everyday practice, with attention to individual circumstances and the wider food environment.
05Physical activityActivity that fits
Consider movement in the context of a person’s preferences, capacity, health and daily routine.
06Physical activityThe evidence on movement
Examine the principles behind physical activity and how to translate them into individualised clinical conversations.
07SleepBetter nights
Explore sleep histories, everyday barriers and practical discussions that support better sleep care.
08SleepThe evidence on sleep
Deepen your understanding of sleep and the clinical reasoning that sits behind an informed approach.
09StressStress and resilience
Explore stress, its context and practical approaches to discussing coping and resilience with patients.
10Risky substancesOne at a time
Practise a respectful, person-centred approach to conversations about alcohol, smoking and other substance use.
11Risky substancesThe evidence on substances
Consider the evidence, risk and clinical context behind supporting change in substance use.
12Social connectionSocial connection
Explore belonging, support and social circumstances as part of a whole-person approach to health.
Each topic connects with the matching chapter in your complete course handbook.
Included with your enrolment
The depth stays with you.
Your complete handbook brings all seven companion handbooks into one carefully organised volume. Read alongside the modules, return to the evidence and make space for your own reflection.
126 pages7 chaptersClickable contents & bookmarks
- 01Behaviour change
- 02Nutrition
- 03Physical activity
- 04Sleep
- 05Stress
- 06Risky substances
- 07Social connection
Available inside the course for enrolled learners to download and use for personal study.
PassGP × Your Lifestyle Medics
Your next step in
lifestyle medicine.
A complete learning experience for doctors who want to connect whole-person care with everyday practice.
- 12 highly interactive online modules
- Immersive cases and virtual patient conversations
- Knowledge checks and guided reflection
- The complete 126-page course handbook
- Flexible, self-paced online learning
Course + complete handbook
A$654.50
Total including GST
- Course price
- A$595.00
- GST
- A$59.50
Complete your enrolment through PassGP.
Need help? hello@passgp.au
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Enrol through PassGPReview your course and payment details at checkout.
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Open your courseSign in to your PassGP account to access your learning.
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Learn and applyWork through the modules with your handbook alongside you.
Clinical insight. Everyday relevance.
Bring lifestyle medicine into your next consultation.
Start with the evidence. Explore the possibilities. Build an approach that makes sense for your patients.
Clinical content: Dr Marissa Kelaher / Your Lifestyle Medics.
Educational design and digital delivery: PassGP.
Your Questions Answered
Who is this online lifestyle medicine course designed for?
PassGP × Your Lifestyle Medics is designed for doctors in Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand who want to integrate lifestyle medicine into everyday clinical practice. It is relevant to GPs, general practice registrars and doctors interested in preventive health, patient-centred care and the lifestyle conversations that form part of ongoing clinical care.
The emphasis is practical: how to explore a patient’s priorities, understand barriers to behaviour change and connect evidence with a realistic next step. Nutrition, physical activity, sleep, stress, risky substances and social connection are considered together within a whole-person approach, with behaviour change running throughout the course.
Dr Marissa Kelaher and Your Lifestyle Medics provide the clinical content; PassGP brings the educational design and digital learning experience. The self-paced online format lets you work through the learning around clinical commitments, using interactive cases and the companion handbook to connect each topic with the consultations you encounter in practice.
How do the immersive modules and virtual patient conversations work?
You take an active role in the learning. Across the course, focused teaching is combined with realistic clinical scenarios, interactive decisions, knowledge checks and guided reflection. You work with the evidence, consider possible responses and explore the reasoning behind different approaches to patient care.
Part of the experience involves speaking with a virtual patient. These spoken patient interactions bring clinical communication into the learning: practise asking questions, exploring concerns and priorities, and discussing a manageable next step. They create opportunities to think about both what you would say and how you would approach a lifestyle medicine consultation.
Case-based learning, virtual patient conversations and reflection help connect behaviour change principles with the human side of general practice. The short example on this page gives a taste of the decision-making style; the spoken patient activities are part of the enrolled course. Use the matching handbook chapter to deepen your understanding after each topic.
What do the 12 modules and complete course handbook cover?
Your enrolment includes 12 interactive lifestyle medicine modules across seven connected topic areas. Behaviour change explores practical goals, motivation and habit formation. Nutrition covers constructive food conversations and food-first thinking. Physical activity connects movement with a patient’s capacity and circumstances, while sleep brings together practical histories, everyday barriers and the supporting evidence.
The course also covers stress and resilience; respectful conversations about alcohol, smoking and other risky substance use; and social connection, belonging and support. Clinical scenarios, knowledge checks and reflection encourage you to bring these areas together in individualised, whole-person care.
The complete 126-page course handbook combines seven companion handbooks into one organised volume, with clickable contents, bookmarks and references. Read the corresponding chapter alongside each module, revisit the evidence and use the reflection material to consolidate your learning. Enrolled learners can download the handbook for personal study, providing a substantial companion to the online course.
What does enrolment cost, and how do I access the course?
The course costs A$595 plus A$59.50 GST, for a total of A$654.50 including GST. Enrolment includes all 12 interactive online modules, the virtual patient learning activities, knowledge checks, guided reflection and the complete 126-page lifestyle medicine handbook.
Choose Enrol in the course, review the inclusions and continue to the PassGP checkout to complete your enrolment. Payment and access are managed through your PassGP account. Once enrolled, sign in and open Your Lifestyle Medics: choose Start modules for the learning experience or Access course handbook for the companion resource.
The course is self-paced, so you can organise your learning around clinical work and return to topics as you progress. Review the access period and applicable terms shown with your offer when enrolling. If you need help with checkout, your account or finding the course, contact hello@passgp.au so the PassGP team can assist.