Lifestyle medicine is a relatively new discipline, designed to improve the management of lifestyle and environmentally induced chronic diseases. As such it is evolving new skills, tools, and procedures. But these are often not assessed for their potential before being adopted in practice. Proof of concept (PoC) is an initial stage of testing characteristic of new product or process development in the commercial world. It can be equally applied to new processes and practices in lifestyle medicine.
Keywords: lifestyle medicine; medical procedures; proof of concept; shared medical appointments.