title: Proposal for medical school nutrition education: topics and recommendations.
abstract: The mission of increasing the number of physician nutrition experts requires focused nutrition education directed at medical students across the 4-year curriculum and into postgraduate training. Courses should be horizontally and vertically integrated, bridging the basic sciences and clinical medicine. It is anticipated that the Liaison Committee on Medical Education and Association of American Medical Colleges will require competency in nutrition with emphasis on preventive and therapeutic applications. Barriers to implementation of nutrition courses can be overcome by using innovative teaching in association with cooperative course directors. Analysis of prior governmental efforts, through the Nutrition Academic Award, provides a basis for targeting fundamental knowledge and creative methods for achieving educational goals. Recommendations for short-term and long-term ideas for increasing the number of adequate physician nutrition experts are offered.
authors.affiliation: Department of Medicine, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, 68 Mamaroneck Rd., Scarsdale, NY 10583, USA. gfmd379@aol.com
authors.forename: Gerald
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Friedman
authors.forename: Robert
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Kushner
authors.forename: Sharon
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Alger-Mayer
authors.forename: Bruce
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Bistrian
authors.forename: Leah
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Gramlich
authors.forename: Paul E
authors.initials: PE
authors.lastname: Marik
mesh_terms: D003479:Curriculum / Q000639:trends; D004501:Education, Medical / Q000639:trends*; D006266:Health Education / Q000639:trends*; D006801:Humans; D052756:Nutritional Sciences / Q000193:education*; D013337:Students, Medical