The theme of Eating Disorders Awareness Week 2025 is “The Time is Now.” Indeed, it is. As Dr. Evelyn Attia and I wrote for STAT, too many healthcare providers don’t know how to address eating disorders. This is because training is so limited. We are trying to help fill this gap. Our latest effort is a Spanish version of PreparED, our freely available, online eating disorders curriculum. The Spanish-language PreparED can be found at https://preparado.nyspi.org/.
The course was translated into Spanish with the support of Natalia Torres Vilar, Director of the Psychology Program at Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas, and feedback from several Spanish-speaking colleagues here and abroad.
First launched in English in 2020, PreparED is a modular, interactive, and engaging program. It includes quizzes to check for learning and downloadable tools for users to have for future reference. It covers topics such as diagnosis, assessment, medical complications, and more. In a preliminary evaluation study, we found that graduate student learners liked the curriculum’s design. And, importantly, using the program helped them to increase their knowledge of and comfort with eating disorders. This was true no matter how much prior experience they had (or didn’t have) in the topic.
As with its English counterpart, the Spanish version of PreparED is also available through the NY State Psychiatric Institute’s Center for Practice Innovation. There, learners can receive a certificate of completion following use of the program.
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