Medical schools add hands-on nutrition programs while avoiding broader HHS priorities
When students return to McGovern Medical School at UT Health Houston, they will take part in hands‑on nutrition experiences such as cooking demonstrations, tours of a holistic garden, and a culinary‑medicine elective.
These activities respond to Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s call for medical schools to increase nutrition education, a component of the Department of Health and Human Services' Advancing Nutrition Education initiative that lists 71 nutrition‑related topics for future physicians.
While embracing the nutrition push, several schools told STAT they plan to sidestep other subjects that are not emphasized by the Medical Association of Health Administrators, reflecting a selective adoption of HHS priorities.
This writeup was produced by pharmadog from original reporting by STAT.
Original headline: “STAT+: As some medical schools embrace RFK Jr.’s nutrition push, they deftly sidestep MAHA priorities”
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