The Nutrition Education Program at Tufts is concentrating primarily on our third year medical students during clerkships in Internal Medicine and Family Medicine, and on the residents in these departments. During the first year of medical school, we currently have a 27 hour block of time. Additionally, we continue to expand our nutrition material in the first two years by integrating topics within other courses. The more innovative components of the current program include: 1) Use of a Nutrition Controversies Panel of 3-4 invited guests for the first year medical students to learn to understand nutrition claims and assess data supporting these claims, 2) Four, 1-hour sessions during the third year medicine clerkship in which we review and discuss the basis for the role of nutrition in the prevention of CVD, dietary assessment instruments for use in clinical practice, behavioral skills to help patients make dietary changes, and starting and following a patient with a dietary intervention for CVD, 3) Development of a standardized patient to carry out a dietary assessment and initiate a dietary intervention for use by third year students, 4) Development of a Nutrition Website for students and residents that includes a nutrition assessment instrument with a personal print-out of recommendations, which will be piloted in the clinics and 5) Development and utilization of instruments published in the journal "Nutrition in Clinical Care."
Learning Objectives: N/A
Keywords: Nutrition, Teaching
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