Priorities for nutrition content within a medical school curriculum

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& nbsp ; Two studies , one using a questionnaire completed by 40 medical school curriculum administrators and 178 nutrition educators , the other using a workshop for 100 medical-nutrition educators , were conducted in 1988 by the American Society for Clinical Nutrition . The goal of these investigations was to formulate recommendations for the number of hours that should be devoted to teaching nutrition in a medical school and to obtain a consensus on the relative importance of specific nutrition topics to be included in the medical curriculum . The results indicate close agreement between curriculum administrators and nutrition educators on the time that should be devoted to nutrition coursework and the relative importance of nutrition topic areas . The value of these findings is that specific nutrition topic areas that deserve relatively high ( and low ) priorities in the curriculum have now been identified . This is particularly valuable information for medical educators in institutions that have few curriculum hours available for teaching nutrition .

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