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Symposium: Innovative Teaching Strategies for Training Physicians in Clinical Nutrition

Longitudinal and Horizontal Integration of Nutrition Science into Medical School Curricula¹

Brian Tobin^*,2, Kimberly Welch^*, Marie Dent^**, Colleen Smith^*, Beulette Hooks and Robert Hash

^* Division of Basic Medical Sciences, Department of Pediatrics, ^** Department of Community Medicine, Marion Family Practice Center and Department of Family Medicine, Mercer University School of Medicine, Macon, GA 31027

²To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: tobin_bw{at}mercer.edu

The overall goal of our Nutrition Academic Award (NAA) medical nutrition program at Mercer University School of Medicine is to develop, implement and evaluate a medical education curriculum in nutrition and other aspects of cardiovascular disease (CVD) prevention and patient management with emphasis on the training of primary care physicians for medically underserved populations. The curriculum is 1) vertically integrated throughout all 4 y of undergraduate medical education, including basic science, clinical skills, community science and clinical clerkships as well as residency training; 2) horizontally integrated to include allied healthcare training in dietetics, nursing, exercise physiology and public health; and 3) designed as transportable modules adaptable to the curricula of other medical schools. The specific aims of our program are 1) to enhance our existing basic science problem-based Biomedical Problems Program with respect to CVD prevention through development of additional curriculum in nutrition/diet/exercise and at-risk subpopulations; 2) to integrate into our Clinical Skills Program objectives for medical history taking, conducting patient exams, diet/lifestyle counseling and referrals to appropriate allied healthcare professionals that are specific to CVD prevention; 3) to enhance CVD components in the Community Science population-based medicine curriculum, stressing the health-field concept model, community needs assessment, evidence-based medicine and primary care issues in rural and medically underserved populations; 4) to enhance the CVD prevention and patient management component in existing 3rd- and 4th-y clinical clerkships with respect to nutrition/diet/exercise and socioeconomic issues, behavior modification and networking with allied health professionals; and 5) to integrate a nutrition/behavior change component into Graduate Residency Training in CVD prevention.

KEY WORDS: • nutrition • medicine • prevention • healthcare • education • rural • underserved • Georgia

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