Open AccessA 4-Year Integrated Nutrition Curriculum for Medical Student Education
Author(s) -
Rima Itani Al-Nimr,
Sandhya K. Rao,
Greg Ogrinc,
Auden C. McClure
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
medical science educator
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.257
H-Index - 13
ISSN - 2156-8650
DOI - 10.1007/s40670-018-00629-6
Subject(s) - curriculum , nutrition education , medical school , medical education , integrated curriculum , medicine , psychology , gerontology , pedagogy
While poor diet is the one of the primary contributors to death and disability in the USA, formal nutrition education in medical schools across the nation remains sparse. As it stands, few medical schools have formally incorporated nutrition education, and fewer still have integrated nutrition into the entire length of their 4-year curriculum. We describe how a new, formally integrated, 4-year nutrition curriculum was developed and is being implemented in a US medical school, and how this program will evolve as part of a twenty-first century medical school education.