Community Culinary Workshops as a Nutrition Curriculum in a Preventive Medicine Residency Program.

ABSTRACT: Introduction:Obesity and diabetes are common diagnoses in the primary care population, especially in urban settings. Physicians providing preventive culinary and nutrition education to patients may be able to uniquely address these medical issues; however, culinary and nutrition education among medical residency programs is insufficient. Methods:We describe a pilot of a novel interactive approach to culinary and nutrition education focused on preventive medicine residents who were trained to provide culinary and nutrition skills to community members in three separate workshops. We developed and implemented a series of three culinary education workshops with 11, eight, and nine preventive medicine residents in each respective workshop. A total of 16 residents were invited to participate. A

SUBMITTER: Lang RD 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7010195 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature