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GWU Culinary Medicine Program

Culinary Medicine Programming

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Complete the interest form. If you would like to participate in a future Community Culinary Medicine Course, please complete the interest form below, which adds you to our call/email list.Registration is based on availability. We will reach out via e-mail and/or phone call with a request to confirm your interest in the next available course. Sign up here >>>


Medical Student Programming

The Culinary Medicine elective is offered during the fall and spring semester to third- and fourth-year medical students and provides students the skills  to teach patients how to incorporate healthy eating for the prevention and treatment of disease by altering their diets, meal preparation and food choices. The Culinary Medicine elective using the Health meets Food programming.

Culinary Medicine is the intersection of the art of cooking with the science of nutrition and health promotion. It is based on Mediterranean Diet principles, which have been shown to improve health outcomes in. At GW we teach Culinary Nutrition using the Health meets Food curriculum via several avenues:
 
Medical School elective and other programming
Internal Medicine Resident coursework
DC-area Community course series 
Research
 

The eight-module Health meets Food core programming is offered as an elective to 3rd and 4th year medical students during the Spring semester each year.  The course was first offered in 2017.  Two cohorts of 16 students in each two-week elective for a total of 32 students each year. More Information >>>  


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