Medical Nutrition - Past and Present

Catalog description

This course combines medical history with clinically applicable knowledge about common nutritional and dietary problems in pediatrics, adult medicine (including geriatrics), and the surgical fields. It will involve daily pre-class reading, in-class discussion, lectures, case-based learning, and student-directed research presentation components. There will be 2 hours of classroom activities per day, 5 days a week, for 4 weeks. This is a curriculum developed by faculty at UPMC.