A Suggested Strategy to Integrate an Elective on Clinical Nutrition with Culinary Medicine.

ABSTRACT: Time allocated to nutrition education in the medical school curriculum stands in contrast to high mortality rates attributable to poor diet in patients. Counseling patients on nutrition-related diseases is a critical skill for physicians, particularly those entering primary care. The crowded medical school curriculum has made adding hours of nutrition instruction difficult. This study evaluates the attitudes of undergraduate medical students at a single institution regarding the need for and relevance of nutrition education and reports on organization of and students' responses to a short experimental elective. Student attitudes regarding nutrition in medicine and a proposed nutrition elective were surveyed. Results helped formulate a short experimental elective. A two-session experimental

SUBMITTER: Leggett LK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8446146 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature