ABSTRACT The Nutrition Academic Award funded 21 US medical schools to develop,
implement, evaluate, and disseminate nutrition curricula for medical students, residents, and …

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 …

As the general public has become more aware of advances in nutrition, consumer demands
for advice on matters of diet and disease have grown. This book offers recommendations to …

Undergraduate medical education has undergone significant changes in development of
new curricula, new pedagogies, and new forms of assessment since the Nutrition Academic …

As American medical care has received more scrutiny over the last decade, principally in the
area of cost effectiveness, it is apparent that good health can better be attained by …

Nutrition plays an important role in health promotion and disease prevention and treatment
across the lifespan. Physicians and other healthcare professionals are expected to counsel …

Although physicians are expected to counsel their patients about nutrition-related health
conditions, surveys report minimal to no medical nutrition education improvements in the …

Background: A school-wide nutrition program was established in 1982 and a required
medical nutrition course (MNC) was established in 1985 at the University of Nevada School …

Nutrition must be integrated into the medical school curriculum to train physicians who can
effectively provide nutrition care for the prevention and management of chronic diseases …

Dynamic curricular changes have been occurring in medical education over the past 15
years. In 1989, when the University of Nevada School of Medicine was first awarded an R25 …