Nutrition Competency Requirements & Development of a Repository of Nutrition Education Curricular Resources
Grantee: The Teaching Kitchen Collaborative, Inc
Year Funded: 2024
Amount: $100,000
Report Status: In Process
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Project Summary: Medical educators and institutions are increasingly recognizing the need to improve education about food and nutrition for medical students and physician trainees. In the US, this shift has been catalyzed by the Bipartisan Resolution passed by the House of Representatives in May 2022, and the rapidly increasing interest of regulators, such as the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education.
Phase 1 of this work involved the design and implementation of a modified Delphi survey involving nutrition subject matter experts and residency program directors to identify nutrition competencies for recommendation at undergraduate and graduate medical education levels. 36 competencies were identified and are described in a manuscript which has recently been accepted by a peer-reviewed medical journal (details to follow).
Now that a consensus on nutrition competencies has been developed, we seek to pursue Phase 2 of this work by providing educators with the resources to deliver educational opportunities that meet these and future competencies.
There are three specific aims for Phase 2:
Broadly advertise the results of Phase 1 once these are published.
Create an initial prototype of a quality-assured Repository of food and nutrition educational resources, tagged to enable rapid, user-friendly searching.
Provide recommendations regarding where this Repository should be housed and maintained along with estimates regarding the cost of operationalizing and maintaining it.
