A Suggested Strategy to Integrate an Elective on Clinical Nutrition with Culinary Medicine.
Clinical nutrition
Culinary medicine
Preventive health education
Undergraduate medical education
Journal
Medical science educator
ISSN: 2156-8650
Titre abrégé: Med Sci Educ
Pays: United States
ID NLM: 101625548
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
Oct 2021
Oct 2021
Historique:
accepted:
02
06
2021
entrez:
4
10
2021
pubmed:
5
10
2021
medline:
5
10
2021
Statut:
epublish
Résumé
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 course was completed, after which the participants were surveyed. Students agreed or strongly agreed with statements regarding the importance of nutrition in clinical practice. Greater than 60% of students surveyed in each class were interested in the proposed elective. All participants found the elective with culinary medicine sessions at least moderately useful to their needs as future healthcare providers. The majority of participants (more than 93%) reported being likely to both take and recommend the elective should it be offered in the future. Medical students consider nutrition an essential aspect of a patient encounter, but do not feel prepared to counsel future patients on dietary changes for management and/or prevention of nutrition linked diseases. There is strong student support for creating an elective in clinical nutrition with culinary medicine sessions to address the gap in their education and improve their confidence. The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s40670-021-01346-3.
Identifiants
pubmed: 34603833
doi: 10.1007/s40670-021-01346-3
pii: 1346
pmc: PMC8446146
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
Pagination
1591-1600Informations de copyright
© The Author(s) 2021.
Déclaration de conflit d'intérêts
Conflict of InterestThe authors declare no competing interests.
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