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. 2021 May 20;31(4):1343-1349.
doi: 10.1007/s40670-021-01310-1. eCollection 2021 Aug.

A Culinary Medicine Elective Course Incorporating Lifestyle Medicine for Medical Students

Shinichi Asano  1 , Amy E Jasperse  2 , Dina C Schaper  3   2 , Robert W Foster  4 , Brian N Griffith  1
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A Culinary Medicine Elective Course Incorporating Lifestyle Medicine for Medical Students

Shinichi Asano et al. Med Sci Educ. .

Abstract

Objective: The purpose of this study is to describe our culinary medicine elective course with a lifestyle modification focus and to evaluate the students' perceived knowledge and attitudes in lifestyle medicine.

Methods: Pre- and post-surveys including quantitative assessment, Likert-type questions, and one open-ended response question to assess students' perceived knowledge of nutrition and lifestyle medicine were distributed to osteopathic medical students who participated in the culinary medicine elective course. The Mann-Whitney U test and dependent t test were used where appropriate based on normality.

Results: Compared to the pre-course survey, students who responded "strongly agree" in questions related to nutrition counseling in the post-course survey were 26.5 to 31.3% higher (p < 0.05). Based on the post-course survey (n = 34), 33 students responded either "strongly agree" (n = 25, 73.5%) or "agree" (n = 8, 23.5%) to the question of "increased my knowledge of nutrition."

Conclusions: Culinary medicine courses with a lifestyle medicine focus may be effective in increasing medical students' confidence and perceived knowledge of nutrition and lifestyle medicine.

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Conflict of interest statement

Conflict of InterestThe authors declare competing interests.

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Survey results pre- and post-culinary medicine elective
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Survey results after culinary medicine elective
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