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A Suggested Strategy to Integrate an Elective on Clinical Nutrition with Culinary Medicine
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...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8446146/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34603833 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s40670-021-01346-3 |
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author | Leggett, Lindsey K. Ahmed, Kareem Vanier, Cheryl Sadik, Amina |
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description | 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. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s40670-021-01346-3. |
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spelling | pubmed-84461462021-10-01 A Suggested Strategy to Integrate an Elective on Clinical Nutrition with Culinary Medicine Leggett, Lindsey K. Ahmed, Kareem Vanier, Cheryl Sadik, Amina Med Sci Educ Original Research 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. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s40670-021-01346-3. Springer US 2021-07-06 /pmc/articles/PMC8446146/ /pubmed/34603833 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s40670-021-01346-3 Text en © The Author(s) 2021 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . |
spellingShingle | Original Research Leggett, Lindsey K. Ahmed, Kareem Vanier, Cheryl Sadik, Amina A Suggested Strategy to Integrate an Elective on Clinical Nutrition with Culinary Medicine |
title | A Suggested Strategy to Integrate an Elective on Clinical Nutrition with Culinary Medicine |
title_full | A Suggested Strategy to Integrate an Elective on Clinical Nutrition with Culinary Medicine |
title_fullStr | A Suggested Strategy to Integrate an Elective on Clinical Nutrition with Culinary Medicine |
title_full_unstemmed | A Suggested Strategy to Integrate an Elective on Clinical Nutrition with Culinary Medicine |
title_short | A Suggested Strategy to Integrate an Elective on Clinical Nutrition with Culinary Medicine |
title_sort | suggested strategy to integrate an elective on clinical nutrition with culinary medicine |
topic | Original Research |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8446146/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34603833 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s40670-021-01346-3 |
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