Culinary Medicine 4-Week

Catalog description

This 4-week course is designed to teach students in healthcare-related fields the tenets of evidence-based whole food, plant-based nutrition for the prevention and management of common chronic diseases. Students will learn about the existing body of scientific evidence and understand nutrition’s role in promoting health and preventing disease. Each lecture class will come with a clinical case that will allow students to reflect on patients they may encounter during clinical practice. Students will also participate in hands-on cooking labs where they will learn to prepare delicious food in line with the nutrition topics of the course each week. Students will also shadow providers at the Lifestyle Medicine Program at the Bellevue Ambulatory Care Pavillion and observe how culinary medicine and counseling on food are put into practice. They will also appreciate how food insecurity impacts counseling and learn strategies on how one can start to address this.