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Teaching medical students how to walk the walk: Will improving student dietary habits change patient counseling perceptions?
Author(s) -
Kay Danielle,
AbuShamat Layla,
Leong Benjamin,
Monlezun Dominique,
Sarris Leah,
Harlan Timothy
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
the faseb journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.709
H-Index - 277
eISSN - 1530-6860
pISSN - 0892-6638
DOI - 10.1096/fasebj.27.1_supplement.231.6
Subject(s) - medicine , curriculum , family medicine , overweight , affect (linguistics) , intervention (counseling) , perception , psychology , gerontology , obesity , nursing , pedagogy , communication , neuroscience
Howe et al. (2010) found that residents and physicians fail to meet dietary guidelines on fruit and vegetable (F/V) intake and that personal dietary habits had no effect on perceived efficacy of patient counseling. At Tulane University School of Medicine (TUSOM), a survey was sent out to assess students’ dietary habits, prior nutritional experience, and perceptions of nutritional counseling competency and counseling importance. Only 51.9% of respondents eat F/V on average at least once daily. Also, there is no significant difference in perceived competency in counseling overweight patients on weight loss strategies (p=0.36) and in perceived importance of nutritional counseling at each visit (p=0.17) between students with daily F/V consumption and students with less F/V intake. Overall, student F/V intake was less than dietary recommendations. There was also no correlation between F/V intake and perceived nutritional counseling competency and importance. We hope to assess the impact of novel medical nutrition curriculum on students’ dietary habits and whether this intervention will affect counseling efficacy and patient compliance. Research support: Tulane University Center for Culinary Medicine Grant Funding Source : Tulane University Center for Culinary Medicine