MedStar Health / MedStar Institute for Innovation Culinary Medicine and Nutrition Learning Curriculum for Residents in Training

Grantee: MedStar Health, Inc

Year Funded: 2024

Amount: $112,000

Report Status: In Process

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Project Summary: MedStar Health is grateful for the Ardmore Institute of Health’s 2023 funding to launch the Culinary Medicine and Nutrition Learning Curriculum for Residents in Training. We are now seeking funds for a second year to significantly expand and scale the program in Phase Two. The 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 across 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. In the coming year, our goal is to expand the deployment of our multimodal curriculum in culinary medicine and nutrition from four specialties to additional residents-in-training across a range of 32 clinical medical specialties.