What ’ s On Your Plate? Culinary Medicine as an Innovative Nutrition Education Model

On this episode of the Academic Medicine Podcast, guests Courtney Newman and Jaclyn Albin, MD, join host Toni Gallo to discuss culinary medicine and its role in teaching nutrition, nutrition counseling, and hands-on cooking skills to medical students. The conversation also covers how culinary medicine programs build connections and community and improve the well-being of students, faculty, and patients. This episode is now available through Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and anywhere else podcasts are available. A transcript is below. Read the article discussed in this episode: Newman C, Yan J, Messiah S, Albin J. Culinary medicine as innovative nutrition education for medical students: A scoping review. Acad Med. 2023;98:274-286. Transcript Toni Gallo: Hi everyone. I’m Toni Gallo, host of today’s episode. Lifestyle, including diet, plays an important role in the health of individuals and populations, and can be an important risk factor for a number of diseases. Yet many physicians have not received adequate nutrition education to discuss diet related changes with patients. To fill this gap, one nutrition education model that some medical schools have adopted in the last decade or so is culinary medicine, which aims to increase medical students’ knowledge about nutrition and its role in disease prevention and management and improve students’ ability to provide nutrition counseling to patients. Culinary medicine p...
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