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Teaching Nutrition in Medical Education
['Jack R. Trapanick']
Harvard Magazine
Hart said she felt “acutely aware” that her medical education lacked meaningful instruction in nutrition.
| PHOTOGRAPH COURTESY OF ELIZA LEONE/HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL RESTAURANT ASSOCIATESA National ShortcomingHart’s concern touches on a hole many medical students at Harvard and around the country experience in their education.
Likewise, schools’ disease-focused medical education tends to consider nutrition a matter instead for public health.
Looking for Change“When Harvard Medical School makes a change, you see that change filter through many other schools,” Chang said, discussing a potential expansion of nutritional education.
The federal government also has the power to promote change by leveraging its status as a major funder of medical education.
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