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Culinary Medicine: Cooking-up Nutrition Competence and Wellness Among Physicians

Building on the CCME John Ruedy Education Innovation Symposium (2019) by the Northern Ontario School of Medicine (NOSM), there is growing interest and opportunity to integrate Culinary Medicine (CM) into Canadian medical education and faculty development. The objective of CM as a component of medical school curricula is to simultaneously increase nutrition competence of medical trainees and improve their health behaviours. As a proven interprofessional education model used in over 50 US medical schools, CM is an innovative therapeutic lifestyle medicine approach that supports positive dietary and psychosocial patient outcomes. This virtual or face-to-face workshop will illustrate the value of CM as a layered knowledge translation strategy for physicians, medical trainees and educators, and demonstrate application in clinical practice settings. Attendees will learn to use simple recipes alongside core food and nutrition messages to build fundamental food skills and nutrition knowledge to influence behaviour change. Additionally, they will learn strategies on how to make their CM program practical and sustainable.

A team of registered dietitians and chefs will facilitate an introductory CM workshop including a food skills demonstration followed by participants preparing two quick and healthy recipes. While participants enjoy the prepared dishes, a mini-lecture on a nutrition topic/condition will be delivered with polling quizzes, small and large group discussions, and case studies.

Physicians, residents, medical students, educators

1. Identify how CM can improve medical learner and physician nutrition competence and support dietary behaviour change. 2. Describe the opportunities and challenges to implementing a CM program in Canadian medical education. 3. List three components of successful CM programs.

1. Monlezun DJ et al. Novel longitudinal and propensity score matched analysis of hands-on cooking and nutrition education versus traditional clinical education among 627 medical students. Advances in Preventive Medicine 2015: 656780. 2. Ravavi A et al. Multisite Culinary Medicine Curriculum Is Associated With Cardioprotective Dietary Patterns and Lifestyle Medicine Competencies Among Medical Trainees. Am J Lifestyle Med. 2020; 14(2):225-233. 3. Sicker K et al. Implementing Culinary Medicine Training: Collaboratively Learning the Way Forward. J Nutr Educ Behav. 2020; 52(7): 742-46.

Interprofessional Education

Culinary Medicine

Nutrition Competence

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Inter-professional Education

Physician & Medical Student Health and Well-being

Inter-professional Education

Faculty Development

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