Nutrition In Medicine?

[ed*26]

So to bring this thread back on topic, Cincinnati has a great emphasis on integrating nutrition into its curriculum (see overview here). Not only is it integrated through all four years, but students who are interested in pursuing it further can pursue a specialization in it, do an elective rotation in it, or even get an MD/MS in Nutrition.

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[bobeanie95]

So to bring this thread back on topic, Cincinnati has a great emphasis on integrating nutrition into its curriculum (see overview here). Not only is it integrated through all four years, but students who are interested in pursuing it further can pursue a specialization in it, do an elective rotation in it, or even get an MD/MS in Nutrition.

Thanks, that's something I'm definitely interested in! Great find.

 

[futuremdforme]

UCSD has a prof who specializes in fructose research - Robert Lustig, so I imagine they cover nutrition fairly well since he's well known.

With regard to nutrition in general, it is not the standard "Why is the average person fat?" that doctors need to know? It's managing DMI and II (which are different -- there's carb counting, food vs insulin, etc), metabolic disorders (galactosemia and PKY, anyone?), allergies (eg. CMPA), storage disorder (Wilson's, hemochromatosis), in addition to considering the needs of the person with no comorbidities. And frankly, treating the average American for obesity is not actually that simple. It's like trying to prescribe them medication they can't afford. Sure, it sounds simple to you, but to them, it is a million miles away.

 

[PrecisionMedicine]

Nutrition is important and plays a role. The NIH and ILAR are hosting a FREE conference in October that will touch on this subject.

Join the ILAR Roundtable for a free 2-day workshop on October 5–6, 2017, to examine the path toward creating and using animal models to support precision medicine. Precision medicine is poised to revolutionize how we treat illness by basing therapeutic decisions on an individual’s molecular characteristics of disease, environmental factors and variables associated with individual lifestyle and behavior. As the field moves toward treating the individual, this workshop will consider ways in which relevant information can be obtained from the development and study of disease models in animals that are guided by individual patient data.