Glasofer Deborah R, Attia Evelyn
New York State Psychiatric Institute, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, 1051 Riverside Drive, Unit 98, New York, 10025, USA.
Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, USA.
Curr Psychiatry Rep. 2025 Oct;27(10):563-571. doi: 10.1007/s11920-025-01629-1. Epub 2025 Aug 4.
This report provides an overview on the relative lack of eating disorders training for healthcare students and providers, the impact of these gaps, and efforts underway to enhance eating disorders education.
The training and knowledge gap in eating disorders is well-established for healthcare students and providers across disciplines, and negatively impacts attitudes about eating disorders, timely diagnosis, and referral. There is strong evidence of enthusiasm for more education on this topic. Several educational resources have been developed in the last decade, only some of which have been formally evaluated. Programmatic evaluation studies suggest even limited amounts of enhanced training, including brief, asynchronous, digital resources, can improve knowledge, confidence, and attitudes about eating disorders for trainees and experienced clinicians. More research is needed to assess educational impact on clinician behavior.
本报告概述了医学生和医疗服务提供者在饮食失调培训方面相对不足的情况、这些差距的影响以及为加强饮食失调教育所做的努力。
饮食失调方面的培训和知识差距在各学科的医学生和医疗服务提供者中已得到充分证实，并且对饮食失调的态度、及时诊断和转诊产生负面影响。有充分证据表明人们对这一主题的更多教育充满热情。在过去十年中已经开发了几种教育资源，其中只有一些经过了正式评估。项目评估研究表明，即使是有限的强化培训，包括简短的、异步的数字资源，也可以提高受训人员和经验丰富的临床医生对饮食失调的知识、信心和态度。需要更多研究来评估教育对临床医生行为的影响。
