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Have your cake and eat it too: A novel collaboration between a fresh market store and a medical school-based teaching kitchen with student-led cooking and nutrition classes
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Approach: GCCM is integrated in the same complex as a 25,0000 square foot grocery store within a food dessert in post-Hurricane Katrina New Orleans. With an April 2014 opening, GCCM is rigorously mapping food deserts, socioeconomic levels, chronic disease and acute disease population densities using a novel integration of geographic information systems (GIS) and electronic health records (EHRs).
Results: GCCM over the past 2 years has trained 185 medical students using an integrated hands-on cooking, nutrition and patient education curriculum. From its temporary location, GCCM has provided over 6,000 hours of community service in the medical student-run cooking classes for over 325 community members in preparation for a GIS-based recruitment tool to offer community classes for the highest risk populations.
Discussion: Patient outcome tracking is ongoing with the goal to provide a compelling collaborative model of medical schools, hospitals, and food companies for a nation-wide scalable model of population-based health management.
Learning Areas:
Administer health education strategies, interventions and programsAssessment of individual and community needs for health education
Communication and informatics
Other professions or practice related to public health
Systems thinking models (conceptual and theoretical models), applications related to public health
Learning Objectives:
Explain a novel collaboration between a fresh market store and a medical school-based teaching kitchen with student-led cooking and nutrition classes.
Keyword(s): Community-Based Health, Health Promotion and Education
Qualified on the content I am responsible for because: I am a research fellow with the Goldring Center for Culinary Medicine.
Any relevant financial relationships? No
I agree to comply with the American Public Health Association Conflict of Interest and Commercial Support Guidelines, and to disclose to the participants any off-label or experimental uses of a commercial product or service discussed in my presentation.