Culinary Medicine and Nutrition Curriculum for All Residents-in-Training at MedStar Health

Grantee: MedStar Health

Year Funded: 2023

Amount: $100,000.00

Report Status: Report not posted

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Project Summary: MedStar Health’s Culinary Medicine and Nutrition Curriculum for Residents-in-Training provides MedStar residents (as well as other Graduate Medical Education trainees, including interns and fellows) with education on nutrition’s role in improving health outcomes, as well as training in how to speak with patients and administer nutrition education. The program will instruct residents of all 32 specialties at MedStar Health on the benefits of healthy eating and how to counsel patients to adopt healthier habits and nutrition specific to each of their needs, with the ultimate goal of forging culinary medicine into a foundational component of the delivery of care in the US healthcare system. Our goal for the first year of the program is to train 100 of our residents and have them apply that training to improve the nutrition literacy of their patients, promote healthier nutrition, experience fewer complications from poor nutrition, promote equitable healthcare, and ultimately lower healthcare costs in the long term.