Integrating nutrition into undergraduate medical education curricula

What is it about?

This article describes a process to integrate a longitudinal nutrition curriculum into an existing curriculum rather than create a concentrated, distinct, limited, and focused segment in the 4-year curriculum.

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Why is it important?

Nutrition is increasingly recognized as both a cause and treatment for chronic disease yet nutrition is typically not a focus in undergraduate medical education. Part of the reason is the difficulty in finding time in our challenging and complex medical education curricula.