TY - JOUR
T1 - Nutrition from the kitchen
T2 - culinary medicine impacts students’ counseling confidence
AU - Magallanes, Emily
AU - Sen, Ahana
AU - Siler, Milette
AU - Albin, Jaclyn
N1 - Funding Information:
A small institutional educational grant from the Southwestern Academy of Teachers supported this project. The funding source had no involvement in study design, analysis, or interpretation.
Funding Information:
We would like to thank our colleagues in Culinary Medicine at Health meets Food , including Tim Harlan, M.D., for making this inspiring work accessible across the country. We are greatly indebted to the Moncrief Cancer Institute and ongoing support of Keith Argenbright, M.D. Several founding student leaders were integral to building the program, including Neha Gaddam, MD, Lucy Cheng, MD, and Yun Liang, MD. We appreciate the statistical support provided by Jerzy Lysikowski, Ph.D. and the manuscript review from Michael Bowen, M.D., Dorothy Sendelbach, M.D., and Angela Mihalic, M.D.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2021, The Author(s).
PY - 2021/12
Y1 - 2021/12
N2 - Background: Although a poor diet is the number one risk factor for early death in the United States and globally, physicians receive little to no training in dietary interventions and lack confidence counseling patients about lifestyle modifications. Innovative, interprofessional strategies to address these gaps include the emergence of culinary medicine, a hands-on approach to teaching the role of food in health outcomes. We sought to assess the impact of a culinary medicine elective on counseling confidence, awareness of an evidence-based approach to nutrition, and understanding of the role of interprofessional teamwork in dietary lifestyle change among medical students at one undergraduate medical school. Methods: We administered pre- and post-course surveys to two cohorts of medical students (n = 64 at pre-test and n = 60 at post-test) participating in a culinary medicine enrichment elective. Chi-square analysis was used to assess the relationship between participation in the course and a positive response to each survey item. Results: Compared with the baseline, students participating in culinary medicine were more likely to feel confident discussing nutrition with patients (29% vs 92%; p < 0.001), to feel familiar with the Mediterranean diet (54% vs. 97%; p < 0.001), and to understand the role of dietitians in patient care (37% vs. 93%; p < 0.001). Conclusions: Culinary medicine shows promise as an impactful educational strategy among first-year medical students for increasing counseling confidence, promoting familiarity with evidence-based nutrition interventions, and augmenting understanding of the role of interprofessional engagement to address lifestyle-related disease.
AB - Background: Although a poor diet is the number one risk factor for early death in the United States and globally, physicians receive little to no training in dietary interventions and lack confidence counseling patients about lifestyle modifications. Innovative, interprofessional strategies to address these gaps include the emergence of culinary medicine, a hands-on approach to teaching the role of food in health outcomes. We sought to assess the impact of a culinary medicine elective on counseling confidence, awareness of an evidence-based approach to nutrition, and understanding of the role of interprofessional teamwork in dietary lifestyle change among medical students at one undergraduate medical school. Methods: We administered pre- and post-course surveys to two cohorts of medical students (n = 64 at pre-test and n = 60 at post-test) participating in a culinary medicine enrichment elective. Chi-square analysis was used to assess the relationship between participation in the course and a positive response to each survey item. Results: Compared with the baseline, students participating in culinary medicine were more likely to feel confident discussing nutrition with patients (29% vs 92%; p < 0.001), to feel familiar with the Mediterranean diet (54% vs. 97%; p < 0.001), and to understand the role of dietitians in patient care (37% vs. 93%; p < 0.001). Conclusions: Culinary medicine shows promise as an impactful educational strategy among first-year medical students for increasing counseling confidence, promoting familiarity with evidence-based nutrition interventions, and augmenting understanding of the role of interprofessional engagement to address lifestyle-related disease.
KW - Culinary medicine
KW - Lifestyle change
KW - Medical education
KW - Nutrition education
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U2 - 10.1186/s12909-021-02512-2
DO - 10.1186/s12909-021-02512-2
M3 - Article
C2 - 33541352
AN - SCOPUS:85100600222
SN - 1472-6920
VL - 21
JO - BMC Medical Education
JF - BMC Medical Education
IS - 1
M1 - 88
ER -