Nutrition training for doctors needs more than 40 hours
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) recently announced an initiative to improve nutrition education across every stage of physician education and training. As part of the effort, dozens of medical schools have pledged to include forty hours of…
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) recently announced an initiative to improve nutrition education across every stage of physician education and training. As part of the effort, dozens of medical schools have pledged to include forty hours of nutrition training (or a competency-based equivalent) in their graduation requirements.
Those pledges take aim at a longstanding gap. Medical schools currently devote less than 1 percent of lecture hours to nutrition, …
Nutrition training for doctors needs more than 40 hours
