Culinary Medicine (Teaching Kitchen) Elective

Catalog description

This 8-week elective course exposes health professional students (or other students interested in health careers) to fundamental cooking skills in the context of learning healthy behaviors in order to counsel patients effectively on nutrition and diet as future clinicians and also for bettering one's own health. The emphasis of this course is on the basic preparation of healthy and delicious whole foods and the applications of these basic culinary skills. This engaging course will be taught by Dr. Hauser, a dually trained chef/MD, with guest clinicians representing various specialties and nutrition science (PhD) faculty. No cooking experience is required. Instructor approval is required for registration. Priority registration is given to MD & PA students, but is open to other students interested in health careers (NOTE: this course was previously listed as FAMMED242 The Doctors is In (the Kitchen): Teaching Kitchen Elective for MD & PA Students)