In response to the burgeoning obesity epidemic, a number of studies over the past decade have assessed residents’ training needs to determine how best to improve the care of patients who are obese. The studies have described obesity-related training and curricula offered in residency programs and assessed residents’ perceived skills and competence. Studies have also reported on residents’ attitudes toward obesity treatment in general and the patients who need it. Here, we seek to summarize the results of these needs assessments and, in so doing, find that many of the identified needs can be constructively viewed through the broader lens of the core skills and competencies of professionalism.