U.S. Agencies Demand Nutrition Education in Medical Schools
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the Department of Education have launched an initiative to integrate comprehensive nutrition education and training into medical school curricula. This move comes after HHS demanded that medical schools teach nutrition, giving them two weeks to develop plans for inclusion in licensing exams and residency requirements.
Cooper Medical School at Rowan University is already involved in this area, offering nutrition-focused courses and research projects. It also engages in community service projects centered around nutrition. Drexel University's medical school has been teaching nutrition since the late 1990s, dedicating around 20 hours of instruction to the topic. Other leading U.S. medical schools, such as Harvard, UCSF, Johns Hopkins, and Columbia, also provide some form of nutrition education in their curricula.
The new initiative aims to ensure that all medical students receive adequate nutrition education, preparing them to address diet-related health issues and improve patient care. Medical schools are now required to incorporate nutrition into their teaching plans, with specific details to be finalized within two weeks.
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