Version 1
: Received: 5 September 2023 / Approved: 6 September 2023 / Online: 7 September 2023 (03:31:12 CEST)
How to cite:
Fragomen, F. R.; Reigel, C.; Dhaliwal, O.; Miller, M. G.; Sapola, A. Integrating Nutrition, Culinary Medicine, and Agriculture in a Longitudinal, Case-Based Medical Education Curriculum. Preprints2023, 2023090406. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202309.0406.v1
Fragomen, F. R.; Reigel, C.; Dhaliwal, O.; Miller, M. G.; Sapola, A. Integrating Nutrition, Culinary Medicine, and Agriculture in a Longitudinal, Case-Based Medical Education Curriculum. Preprints 2023, 2023090406. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202309.0406.v1
Fragomen, F. R.; Reigel, C.; Dhaliwal, O.; Miller, M. G.; Sapola, A. Integrating Nutrition, Culinary Medicine, and Agriculture in a Longitudinal, Case-Based Medical Education Curriculum. Preprints2023, 2023090406. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202309.0406.v1
APA Style
Fragomen, F. R., Reigel, C., Dhaliwal, O., Miller, M. G., & Sapola, A. (2023). Integrating Nutrition, Culinary Medicine, and Agriculture in a Longitudinal, Case-Based Medical Education Curriculum. Preprints. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202309.0406.v1
Chicago/Turabian Style
Fragomen, F. R., Margaret G Miller and Amy Sapola. 2023 "Integrating Nutrition, Culinary Medicine, and Agriculture in a Longitudinal, Case-Based Medical Education Curriculum" Preprints. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202309.0406.v1
Abstract
The United States is plagued with the highest rates of preventable metabolic diseases it has ever seen, and while poor nutrition is increasingly recognized as a critical contributing factor, good nutrition has been shown to be a potent factor in prevention and management of these illnesses. Notably, nutrition is inextricably intertwined with farming practices and the stewardship of our environment – particularly its soil. In this proposal, we propose a method to expose medical students to basic agricultural and environmental knowledge regarding the production of food, as well as educate them in practical nutrition education within the interactive, case-based, and longitudinal preclinical curriculum at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine (CWRU SOM). We propose a two-part approach; first: integrating relevant topics in nutrition, culinary medicine, and farming practices into the preclinical blocks through Official Learning Objectives, and second: an optional 8-week, zero credit elective for students interested in pursuing a deeper understanding of these topics. Through these interventions, we believe courses like this will support a generation of physicians able to understand health from soil to plate with a consideration for the environment in addition to exemplifying healthful lifestyles themselves. We believe these kinds of future physicians will be the most effective in treating (and ideally reversing) the chronic disease epidemic.
Keywords
food as medicine, culinary medicine, farming as medicine, medical education, regenerative agriculture, farming, soil health, nutrition
Subject
Public Health and Healthcare, Public, Environmental and Occupational Health
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