Patients routinely seek physicians' guidance about diet and the relation between nutrition
and the prevention and treatment of disease. However, the adequacy of nutrition instruction …

Purpose Doctors play a critical role in providing nutrition care and supporting patients to
adopt healthy dietary habits. Improving the quality of nutrition education in medical schools …

Background Nutrition education has presented an ongoing challenge to medical educators.
In the 2007-2008 academic year, Harvard Medical School replaced its dedicated Preventive …

Background: Recent reports on the state of nutrition in US medical schools suggest that
these schools are challenged to incorporate nutrition into an already full curriculum …

Background: Numerous entreaties have been made over the past 2 decades to improve the
nutrition knowledge and skills of medical students and physicians. However, most …

Despite the significant impact diet has on health, there is minimal nutrition training for
medical students. This review summarizes published nutrition learning experiences in US …

Purpose To quantify the number of required hours of nutrition education at US medical
schools and the types of courses in which the instruction was offered, and to compare these …

Context: Teaching nutrition to medical students is constrained by limitations in curricular time
and competition with other topics. Objectives: To identify time slots and teaching methods for …

Purpose. The aims of this study were to assess where medical students obtain their nutrition
information and their self-perceived level of competency in providing basic nutrition …

Historically, physicians have perceived the quality of nutrition training during medical school
as inadequate. A literature review suggests that this perception has not significantly …