The Lunch Conference Diet: Fostering Resident Engagement in Culinary Medicine Through a Curriculum Centered on Changes to Provided Conference Food.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Despite the burden of chronic disease attributable to lifestyle, most internal medicine residents do not receive adequate training in nutrition and nutrition counseling.

Methods

We held a culinary medicine workshop in September 2018, followed by didactic sessions throughout the academic year. Changes were made to lunch conference food to more closely follow the Mediterranean diet and to encourage healthy eating. With a modified NUTCOMP (Nutrition Competence Questionnaire) instrument, we assesses residents' perceived competence with nutrition counseling before and after the curriculum.

Results

Twenty-six of 30 residents completed the pre-curriculum and post-curriculum surveys (not the same 26). The mean NUTCOMP score increased from 3.5 to 4.0 (P < .00

SUBMITTER: Doxey RS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8120615 | biostudies-literature | 2021 May-Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature