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Appendix F: Testimony of the American Medical Student Association: Nutrition Education in the Undergraduate Medical Curriculum
Appendix F: Testimony of the American Medical Student Association: Nutrition Education in the Undergraduate Medical Curriculum
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Nutrition is not well taught, if taught at all, in most medical schools. Students tend to place little value on nutrition courses, which are often incorporated into other courses, receive lesser emphasis, and have to compete for study time with subjects that carry more weight in overall student evaluations and grades.
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One of AMSA's strengths is our experience with community-based programs designed to provide medical students with quality learning experiences, using the delivery of a needed community service by students as the primary vehicle to promote student learning. Currently, AMSA, under contract with the Bureau of Health Care Delivery and Assistance, is placing students in Community and Migrant Health Centers, thereby assisting their efforts in health promotion and disease prevention.
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The task force provides an organizing and communication mechanism that can stimulate interest in, and bring together students who want to participate in, the programs. In addition, AMSA has provided funds and encouragement to local chapters for student-organized educational programs in nutrition, several of which have become incorporated into the formal curriculum.
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Nutrition taught by those whose interest and expertise lie elsewhere simply doesn't work. Preclinical nutrition courses are often unsuccessful and irrelevant, because the courses fail to identify practical applications.
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providing course work that fosters knowledge and skills that will enable future physicians to: evaluate a patient's nutritional status, understand the nutritional needs of a healthy individual, assess and intervene when patients are at high-risk states of the normal life cycle, at risk for chronic and acute diseases with nutritional implications, and in a disease state where nutrition therapy is indicated; and 6. the opportunity to practice emerging skills in ambulatory and community-based health care settings.
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AMSA's Principles of Medical Education, as enacted by its House of Delegates, states that: "The American Medical Student Association supports a medical school curriculum that provides in the core curriculum a structured practical nutrition course, including diet counseling centered around the patient/ student educational aspect of nutrition in health and disease." Furthermore, many of the recommendations follow AMSA's principles regarding curriculum design and content, specifically with respect to the interdisciplinary approach, and emphasis on community and ambulatory settings. AMSA is currently conducting a nationwide survey of U.S.
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