Yee Matthew J, McWatt Sean C, Brassett Cecilia, Stearns Dana A, Sagoo Mandeep Gill, Sakurai Takeshi, Bittman Mark, Deckelbaum Richard J, Guzman Carlos Faerron, Karmally Wahida, Noel Geoffroy, Wu Anette
Department of Pathology and Cell Biology, Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, 650 West 168th St, New York, NY 10032 USA.
School of Kinesiology, Faculty of Health Sciences, Western University, London, ON Canada.
Med Sci Educ. 2025 Feb 1;35(2):675-681. doi: 10.1007/s40670-025-02290-2. eCollection 2025 Apr.
Nutrition affects overall health, but comprehensive nutrition education is currently under-taught in medical schools. Even when available, nutrition courses rarely include global cultural perspectives. This paper describes a novel online, international, and interactive elective course for senior medical students to learn and review fundamental nutrition topics in cross-cultural contexts. From March to April 2023, students participated in synchronous large-group lectures and asynchronous small-group discussions with peers from across the world. Students demonstrated content-level knowledge and reported greater awareness of nutrition-related cultural perspectives. Thus, students were introduced to multiple dimensions of medicine crucial for holistic patient care but currently rarely combined in traditional curricula.
The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s40670-025-02290-2.
营养影响整体健康,但目前医学院校中全面的营养教育讲授不足。即使有营养课程,也很少包含全球文化视角。本文描述了一门新颖的在线、国际且互动的选修课程,供高年级医学生在跨文化背景下学习和复习基础营养主题。2023年3月至4月,学生们参加了同步的大组讲座以及与来自世界各地的同龄人进行的异步小组讨论。学生们展示了内容层面的知识,并报告称对营养相关文化视角的认识有所提高。因此,学生们接触到了对整体患者护理至关重要但目前在传统课程中很少结合的医学多个维度。
在线版本包含可在10.1007/s40670-025-02290-2获取的补充材料。