"Zoom"ing to the Kitchen: A Novel Approach to Virtual Nutrition Education for Medical Trainees.

ABSTRACT: While nutritional interventions are first-line therapy for many chronic diseases, most medical trainees receive minimal nutrition education, leaving them unprepared to address nutritional issues with patients. An interactive, single-session, virtual nutrition curriculum was taught online to 80 physician assistant (PA) students. Topics included plant-based nutrition, dietary history-taking and counseling, and culinary medicine. Students were surveyed before, immediately after, and four weeks after the curriculum to assess changes to nutrition-related knowledge, attitudes, confidence, and personal dietary behaviors. Seventy-three PA students (91%) completed the pre-survey, 76 (95%) completed the post-survey, and 42 (52.5%) completed the delayed post-survey. Knowledge scores increased immedia

SUBMITTER: Charles JA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10574391 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature