Nutrition Education for the Health-care Provider Improves Patient Outcomes

Nutrition education is globally lacking in medical training, despite the fact that dietary habits are a crucial component of physician self-care, disease prevention, and treatment. Research has shown that a physician’s health status directly affects the quality of their preventative health counselin...

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Published in:Global advances in health and medicine 2018, Vol.7, p.2164956118795995-2164956118795995
Main Authors: Baute, Vanessa, Sampath-Kumar, Revathy, Nelson, Sarah, Basil, Barbara
Format: Article
Language:English
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Clinical outcomes
Nutrition education
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Well being
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Summary:Nutrition education is globally lacking in medical training, despite the fact that dietary habits are a crucial component of physician self-care, disease prevention, and treatment. Research has shown that a physician’s health status directly affects the quality of their preventative health counseling and patient outcomes, yet on average less than 20 hours over 4 years of medical education is spent teaching nutrition. This leaves providers with a gap in knowledge regarding this critical component of health. In a recent study, only 14% of resident physicians reported being adequately trained to provide nutritional counseling. Educating health-care professionals on how to eat well provides an opportunity to improve physician and patient well-being.
ISSN:2164-9561
2164-957X
2164-9561
DOI:10.1177/2164956118795995