What is the Significance of a Physician Shortage in Nutrition Medicine?

The practice of clinical nutrition is distributed across a wide spectrum of medical and surgical specialties. As a result, silos of nutrition activity tend to exist in isolation. Coincident with this process is a progressive shortage of physicians practicing nutrition medicine. Not surprisingly, phy...

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Published in:JPEN. Journal of parenteral and enteral nutrition 2010-11, Vol.34 (6_suppl), p.7S-20S
Main Authors: McClave, Stephen A., Mechanick, Jeffrey I., Bistrian, Bruce, Graham, Toby, Hegazi, Refaat, Jensen, Gordon L., Kushner, Robert F., Merritt, Russell
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Education, Medical
Humans
Medicine
nutrition expert
nutrition support
Nutritional Sciences - education
physician nutrition specialist
Physicians - supply & distribution
Societies, Medical
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Summary:The practice of clinical nutrition is distributed across a wide spectrum of medical and surgical specialties. As a result, silos of nutrition activity tend to exist in isolation. Coincident with this process is a progressive shortage of physicians practicing nutrition medicine. Not surprisingly, physician membership in leading professional nutrition societies has been decreasing over the past 10 to 20 years. The number of physicians in the American Society for Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition in 2009 was barely one-third the number seen in 1990 (now
ISSN:0148-6071
1941-2444
DOI:10.1177/0148607110375429