Exploring culinary medicine as a promising method of nutritional education in medical school: a scoping review.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Dietary modifications are considered a first-line intervention for chronic disease management, yet graduating doctors still report not feeling competent to counsel patients on their diet. Research has focused on methods to address this shortfall in physician competency, including culinary medicine. Culinary medicine is an approach to education that involves hands-on food and cooking learning experiences to equip participants with tools for improving the nutrition behaviour and health of their future patients. Despite positive findings in the efficacy of these interventions, they differ markedly in approach and target, which therefore fails to provide adequate evidence that could serve to guide future culinary medicine interventions.

Objective

A scoping review to s

SUBMITTER: Tan J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9175378 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature