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Nutrition Attitudes and Knowledge in Medical Students After Completion of an Integrated Nutrition Curriculum Compared to a Dedicated Nutrition Curriculum: a Quasi-experimental Study by Carolyn O Walsh; Sonja I Ziniel; Helen K Delichatsios; David S Ludwig is a Medicine article available to read on EtoBox.

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Background: Nutrition education has presented an ongoing challenge to medical educators. In the 2007-2008 academic year, Harvard Medical School replaced its dedicated Preventive Medicine and Nutrition course with an integrated curriculum. The objective of the current study was to assess the effect of the curriculum change on medical student attitudes and knowledge about nutrition. Methods: A survey was administered in a quasi-experimental design to students in the last class of the dedicated curriculum (n = 131) and the first class of the integrated curriculum (n = 135) two years after each class completed the required nutrition course. Main measures were attitude scores based on modified Nutrition in Patient care Survey and satisfaction ratings, performance on a nutrition knowledge test, and demographic variables. Two-tailed t-tests were performed. Results: Response rates were 50.4% and 42.2%. There were no differences between the groups in attitude scores from the Nutrition in Patient care Survey (p = 0.43) or knowledge scores (p = 0.63). Students with the integrated curriculum were less satisfied with both the quantity (p < 0.0001) and quality (p = 0.008) of their nutrition educ

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Author

Carolyn O Walsh; Sonja I Ziniel; Helen K Delichatsios; David S Ludwig

Publisher

BioMed Central; Springer (Biomed Central Ltd.); London: BioMed Central, 2001-; Springer Science and Business Media LLC; Society for Mining, Metallurgy and Exploration Inc. (ISSN 1472-6920)

Published

2011

Language

EN

Field

Medicine (Health Sciences)