Nutrition @ WCM

Advancing Nutrition Education in Medical Training

Nutrition is a critical component of disease prevention and management and an essential element of clinical care. At Weill Cornell Medicine, we are integrating nutrition across the curriculum to ensure that learners develop the knowledge, skills, and confidence to incorporate evidence-based nutrition care into practice. Our approach spans foundational science through clinical application, emphasizing practical relevance, interdisciplinary collaboration, and longitudinal learning. We also support student engagement in research and scholarship in nutrition, leveraging expertise across Weill Cornell Medicine and the broader Cornell community to foster innovation and discovery in this rapidly evolving field.

Friedman Education Initiative

The Friedman Education Initiative has served as a critical catalyst for advancing nutrition education at Weill Cornell Medicine. Supported through generous philanthropy, the initiative has enabled the expansion and integration of nutrition content across all three phases of the curriculum. This includes development of innovative educational experiences such as AI-enabled simulation, interprofessional training, and community-based learning. The initiative has also supported collaboration among faculty, researchers, and community partners, positioning WCM to lead in the development of a comprehensive, longitudinal model for nutrition education in medical training.

The domains outlined below represent a structured framework for nutrition education at Weill Cornell Medicine, developed through alignment with national competency recommendations and informed by a comprehensive review of our existing curriculum.

Domain: Foundational Nutritional Knowledge

Highlight: Metabolism and Nutrition Unit

The Metabolism and Nutrition unit is a 3‑week component of the Essential Principles of Medicine Course. The 3‑week Metabolism and Nutrition unit in the Essential Principles of Medicine course teaches how the body processes macronutrients to produce and regulate energy. Students learn key biochemical pathways, such as glycolysis, the TCA cycle, oxidative phosphorylation, and lipid and amino acid metabolism, and how these are integrated across organs and controlled by hormones like insulin and glucagon.The curriculum emphasizes anabolic and catabolic processes, enzyme regulation, mitochondrial function, and the role of micronutrients, linking core biochemistry to physiological homeostasis. It also connects metabolism to clinical conditions including diabetes, obesity, metabolic syndrome, inborn errors, atherosclerosis, and cancer. Through lectures, problem sets, and assessments, students develop the ability to integrate biochemical mechanisms with disease processes and therapeutic approaches.

1) Essential Principles of Medicine

Nutritional content of foods, macronutrients and micronutrients
Pathological states affecting nutrient absorption
Identifies nutrient deficiencies, recommends foods/supplements
Functions of essential nutrients
Mitochondrial metabolism and energy regulation: understand nutrient-driven ATP synthesis and how overnutrition leads to insulin resistance
Structural components from food: recognize how dietary amino acids, essential fatty acids, and cholesterol build proteins, membranes and hormones
Micronutrient cofactors in enzymatic function: master how vitamins and minerals drive reactions and how deficiencies undermine function
Hormonal regulation through food composition: understand how meal composition affects GLP-1, CCK, PYY, leptin and insulin signaling

2) Pharmacology Unit

Drug-nutrient interactions

3) Cells, Tissues and Control Systems Unit

Pathological states affecting nutrient absorption
Identifies nutrient deficiencies, recommends foods/supplements
Evidence-based guidance on healthy beverage consumption

4) Injury, Infection, Immunity and Repair Unit

Difference between food allergies and intolerance including gluten
Microbiome-immune crosstalk: understand fiber fermentation producing butyrate for gut integrity and how ultra-processed diets cause dysbiosis

1) Cardiology

Principles of healthy balanced diet per national guidelines

2) Gastrointestinal

Functions of essential nutrients
Micronutrient cofactors in enzymatic function: master how vitamins and minerals drive reactions and how deficiencies undermine function
Hormonal regulation through food composition: understand how meal composition affects GLP-1, CCK, PYY, leptin and insulin signaling
Microbiome-immune crosstalk: understand fiber fermentation producing butyrate for gut integrity and how ultra-processed diets cause dysbiosis

3) Renal

Principles of healthy balanced diet per national guidelines

4) Endocrine

Drug-nutrient interactions
Functions of essential nutrients
Identifies nutrient deficiencies, recommends foods/supplements
Interprets nutrition labels and menu labeling
Nutritional content of foods, macronutrients and micronutrients
Pathological states affecting nutrient absorption
Principles of healthy balanced diet per national guidelines
Chronobiology and circadian nutrition: understand how meal timing affects nutrient absorption, hormonal rhythms, and metabolic efficiency

5) Hematology / Oncology

Nutritional content of foods, macronutrients and micronutrients
Pathological states affecting nutrient absorption
Nutritional content of foods, macronutrients and micronutrients

6) Dermatology

Pathological states affecting nutrient absorption
Identifies nutrient deficiencies, recommends foods/supplements
Difference between food allergies and intolerance including gluten

7) Brain and Behavior

Micronutrient cofactors in enzymatic function: master how vitamins and minerals drive reactions and how deficiencies undermine function
Cognitive and behavioral nutrition: apply mindful eating practices that enhance hormonal signaling and reduce reward-driven eating

1) Critical Care Medicine

Pathological states affecting nutrient absorption

2) Medicine

Nutritional content of foods, macronutrients and micronutrients
Pathological states affecting nutrient absorption
Identifies nutrient deficiencies, recommends foods/supplements
Nutritional differences: minimally processed vs highly processed foods
Principles of healthy balanced diet per national guidelines
Structural components from food: recognize how dietary amino acids, essential fatty acids, and cholesterol build proteins, membranes and hormones
Micronutrient cofactors in enzymatic function: master how vitamins and minerals drive reactions and how deficiencies undermine function

3) Neurology

Identifies nutrient deficiencies, recommends foods/supplements

4) Obstetrics and Gynecology

Pathological states affecting nutrient absorption
Identifies nutrient deficiencies, recommends foods/supplements
Energy and nutrient requirements across lifespan
Drug-nutrient interactions
Nutritional differences: minimally processed vs highly processed foods
Interprets nutrition labels and menu labeling
Functions of essential nutrients
Principles of healthy balanced diet per national guidelines
Evidence-based guidance on healthy beverage consumption

1) Health Policy

Identifies nutrient deficiencies, recommends foods/supplements
Principles of healthy balanced diet per national guidelines

2) Surgery Sub-Internship

Nutritional content of foods, macronutrients and micronutrients
Pathological states affecting nutrient absorption

3) Area of Concentration

The Area of Concentration (AOC) program is designed to provide each student with the opportunity to identify an area of interest and to participate in scholarly activities, research, and/or training in that area. Students will acquire specialized knowledge, skills, and competence in a selected area of concentration, and will prepare an original scholarly project (SP) under the supervision of a faculty mentor.
There are many nutrition-focused opportunities for students in the Areas of Concentration program. For example, students can partner with experts in cardiometabolic disease and prevention, metabolic complications in HIV patients, obesity and lipid disorders, diabetes, growth disorders, metagenomics, health policy and access. Recent student research include investigations on the prevalence and impact of food deserts, The "Food Order" Behavioral Intervention In Prediabetes, the Carbohydrate-Last Food Order Behavioral Intervention in Prediabetes and its Impact on Blood Glucose and HbA1c, Nutrition and the impact of online nutrition resources, the effect of brown adipose tissue on overall body fat distribution and cardiometabolic health in cancer patients, and the relationship between adiposity, diet, and physical activity in adolescents.
For more information about the AOC program, please visit the AOC webpage.

4) Electives

Students at Weill Cornell Medicine have dozens of elective options available. Multiple electives have nutrition-focused components, including: HIV medicine and prevention; gastroenterology and hepatology; and pediatric gastroenterology.
One elective example to highlight is KiPow, which is a service learning elective that allows students to benefit from hands-on experience with the complex reality of behavioral choices outside the clinical setting. Trained medical students from Weill Cornell Medicine will visit a local public grade school on a weekly basis to model healthy behaviors for elementary school children; they engage children in active play and teach a health curriculum. Visit the Team KiPow website here.

Domain: Nutrition Assessment and Diagnosis

Highlight: Medicine

Within the medicine clerkship, all students experience and conduct nutrition assessments in adults, including screening for conditions related to malnutrition and their management, and learn about and apply therapeutic diets. Students encounter virtual and actual patient-based scenarios that illustrate specific nutritional challenges in certain patient groups. All students also spend a day with a registered dietician, where they learn how to nutritional status by integrating dietary history, clinical measurements (height, weight, BMI, skeletal muscle mass, visceral fat), and laboratory findings, perform a comprehensive nutrition-focused physical examination, interpret exam data and biomarkers for malnutrition risk and recognize early warning signs of malnutrition.

1) Metabolism and Nutrition

Assesses nutritional status by integrating dietary history, clinical measurements (height, weight, BMI, skeletal muscle mass, visceral fat), and laboratory findings
Interprets exam data and biomarkers for malnutrition risk
Personalized metabolic biomarker interpretation: using fasting insulin levels, oral glucose tolerance testing (OGGT), HOMA-IR, TG:HDL ratio, advanced lipid panels, omega-3 index and vitamin D to guide interventions

2) Neoplasia

Assesses nutritional status by integrating dietary history, clinical measurements (height, weight, BMI, skeletal muscle mass, visceral fat), and laboratory findings

Endocrine

Assesses nutritional status by integrating dietary history, clinical measurements (height, weight, BMI, skeletal muscle mass, visceral fat), and laboratory findings
Personalized metabolic biomarker interpretation: using fasting insulin levels, oral glucose tolerance testing (OGGT), HOMA-IR, TG:HDL ratio, advanced lipid panels, omega-3 index and vitamin D to guide interventions
Continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) interpretation: analyze CGM data patterns to identify glycemic variability and guide dietary modifications and different use cases for specific populations, including diabetic patients

1) Medicine

Assesses nutritional status by integrating dietary history, clinical measurements (height, weight, BMI, skeletal muscle mass, visceral fat), and laboratory findings
Comprehensive nutrition-focused physical examination
Interprets exam data and biomarkers for malnutrition risk
Personalized metabolic biomarker interpretation: using fasting insulin levels, oral glucose tolerance testing (OGGT), HOMA-IR, TG:HDL ratio, advanced lipid
Panels, omega-3 index and vitamin D to guide interventions
Early warning sign recognition: interpret nutrition-related symptoms (fatigue, bloating, anxiety) and signs (brittle nails, hair thinning)
Network biology disease assessment: evaluate organ symptoms as downstream manifestations of upstream cellular dysfunction

2) Obstetrics-Gynecology

Personalized metabolic biomarker interpretation: using fasting insulin levels, oral glucose tolerance testing (OGGT), HOMA-IR, TG:HDL ratio, advanced lipid panels, omega-3 index and vitamin D to guide interventions
Continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) interpretation: analyze CGM data patterns to identify glycemic variability and guide dietary modifications and different use cases for specific populations, including diabetic patients

1) Health Policy

Interprets exam data and biomarkers for malnutrition risk

2) Surgery Sub-Internship

Assesses nutritional status by integrating dietary history, clinical measurements (height, weight, BMI, skeletal muscle mass, visceral fat), and laboratory findings

3) Area of Concentration

4) Electives

Students at Weill Cornell Medicine have dozens of elective options available. Multiple electives have nutrition-focused components, including: HIV medicine and prevention; gastroenterology and hepatology; and pediatric gastroenterology.
One elective example to highlight is KiPow, which is a service learning elective that allows students to benefit from hands-on experience with the complex reality of behavioral choices outside the clinical setting. Trained medical students from Weill Cornell Medicine will visit a local public grade school on a weekly basis to model healthy behaviors for elementary school children; they engage children in active play and teach a health curriculum. Visit the Team KiPow website here.

Domain: Food and Nutrition-Related Communication Skills

Highlight: Endocrine Unit

Using our MedSimAI platform, developed by Cornell University scholars and faculty, students practice performing dietary assessment and counseling using non-stigmatizing and patient-focused language using an AI-powered avatar. Students have the opportunity to integrate evidence-based nutrition information into patient care, guide the avatar on lifelong dietary patterns for chronic disease, suggest maintenance strategies such as food journaling and biomarker monitoring and collaborative goal setting.

1) Metabolism and Nutrition

Integrates evidence-based nutrition information into patient care
Guides patients on lifelong dietary patterns for chronic disease
Food journaling guidance: teach patients to maintain detailed food journals for pattern identification and accountability
Patient empowerment and dietary autonomy: foster long-term self-efficacy through education, biomarker monitoring, and collaborative goal-setting

2) Neoplasia

Guides patients on lifelong dietary patterns for chronic disease

3) Patient Care and Physicianship

Integrates evidence-based nutrition information into patient care

1) Cardiology

Integrates evidence-based nutrition information into patient care

2) Endocrine Unit

3) Musculoskeletal / Rheumatology

Integrates evidence-based nutrition information into patient care

4) Patient Care and Physicianship

Uses behavior change models to counsel patients
Guides patients on lifelong dietary patterns for chronic disease
Brief counseling for visceral adiposity/metabolic syndrome
Food journaling guidance: teach patients to maintain detailed food journals for pattern identification and accountability

1) Ambulatory Care

Uses behavior change models to counsel patients
Guides patients on lifelong dietary patterns for chronic disease
Brief counseling for visceral adiposity/metabolic syndrome
Motivational interviewing for nutrition change: apply structured interviewing techniques to enhance autonomy and sustainable behavior change

2) Medicine

Integrates evidence-based nutrition information into patient care

3) Obstetrics - Gynecology

Integrates evidence-based nutrition information into patient care
Uses behavior change models to counsel patients
Guides patients on lifelong dietary patterns for chronic disease
Motivational interviewing for nutrition change: apply structured interviewing techniques to enhance autonomy and sustainable behavior change"
Mindfulness-based eating interventions: implement eating awareness training to improve hormonal signaling

1) Surgery Sub-Internship

Guides patients on lifelong dietary patterns for chronic disease

2) Health Policy

Uses behavior change models to counsel patients

3) Area of Concentration

4) Electives

Students at Weill Cornell Medicine have dozens of elective options available. Multiple electives have nutrition-focused components, including: HIV medicine and prevention; gastroenterology and hepatology; and pediatric gastroenterology.
One elective example to highlight is KiPow, which is a service learning elective that allows students to benefit from hands-on experience with the complex reality of behavioral choices outside the clinical setting. Trained medical students from Weill Cornell Medicine will visit a local public grade school on a weekly basis to model healthy behaviors for elementary school children; they engage children in active play and teach a health curriculum. Visit the Team KiPow website here.

Domain: Interprofessional Referral and Patient Management

Highlight: Medicine

Students on their Medicine clerkship spend a day working with and co-learning with a dietetics intern, where they experience and conduct nutrition assessments in adults, including screening for conditions related to malnutrition and their management, and learn about and apply therapeutic diets. Students see multidisciplinary nutrition care first hand, participate in nutrition consultations and shadow practitioners implementing food-first interventions.

Works with other health professionals for multidisciplinary nutrition care
Digital health technology integration: understand and recommend evidence-based wearables and platforms supporting nutrition outcomes

1) Medicine

Works with other health professionals for multidisciplinary nutrition care
Makes appropriate referrals to support patient health goals
Health coach and functional nutritionist collaboration: effectively co-manage patients with non-physician experts
Functional medicine clinic rotations: shadow practitioners implementing food-first interventions and metabolic health approaches

2) Obstetrics - Gynecology

Works with other health professionals for multidisciplinary nutrition care
Makes appropriate referrals to support patient health goals
Health coach and functional nutritionist collaboration: effectively co-manage patients with non-physician experts

1) Surgery Sub-Internship

Works with other health professionals for multidisciplinary nutrition care
Makes appropriate referrals to support patient health goals

2) Area of Concentration

3) Electives

Students at Weill Cornell Medicine have dozens of elective options available. Multiple electives have nutrition-focused components, including: HIV medicine and prevention; gastroenterology and hepatology; and pediatric gastroenterology.
One elective example to highlight is KiPow, which is a service learning elective that allows students to benefit from hands-on experience with the complex reality of behavioral choices outside the clinical setting. Trained medical students from Weill Cornell Medicine will visit a local public grade school on a weekly basis to model healthy behaviors for elementary school children; they engage children in active play and teach a health curriculum. Visit the Team KiPow website here.

Domain: Public Health Nutrition

Highlight: Health Policy

The 2-week Health Policy course examines how structural factors such as economic inequality, housing, and systemic racism, shape nutrition, food access, and health outcomes. It highlights the role of public policies in influencing food insecurity and health disparities and uses case-based learning to show how these forces affect clinical care. Students learn to recognize structural barriers to healthy diets, connect patient experiences to policy contexts, and view physicians as advocates addressing upstream drivers of inequity. The curriculum fosters empathy, reduces stigma, and reframes nutrition as a systems-level equity issue rather than solely an individual choice.

Medicine

Screens for food/nutrition needs and patients’ ability to obtain sufficient nutrition, makes appropriate referrals

Health Policy

Policy advocacy for physicians: understand state and federal nutrition programs and identify opportunities for evidence-based reform
Dietary Guidelines analysis: critically evaluate and translate the 2025 Dietary Guidelines into clinical practice

Domain: Experiential Hands-On Learning (Culinary Medicine)

Highlight: Electives and Volunteerism

Harlem Grown Farm to Table: A project partly funded by the Engaged Opportunity Grant from the Einhorn Center for Community Engagement, the project provided the opportunity for students to participate in academic community partnerships, urban gardening, experiential learning and culinary medicine.

Harlem Grown Weill Cornell Farm to Table

Endocrine

Personalized meal planning from clinical data: develop meal plans tailored to patient clinical history, biomarkers, and circumstances

1) Medicine

Personalized meal planning from clinical data: develop meal plans tailored to patient clinical history, biomarkers, and circumstances

2) Obstetrics - Gynecology

Nutrient-preserving cooking techniques: master methods enhancing bioavailability through soaking, sprouting, fermenting

1) Harlem Grown Farm to Table

A project partly funded by the Engaged Opportunity Grant from the Einhorn Center for Community Engagement, the project provided the opportunity for students to participate in academic community partnerships, urban gardening, experiential learning and culinary medicine.

2) Electives

Creates culinary nutrition SMART goals for personal use and patient care
Nutrient-preserving cooking techniques: master methods enhancing bioavailability through soaking, sprouting, fermenting
Personalized meal planning from clinical data: develop meal plans tailored to patient clinical history, biomarkers, and circumstances
Anti-inflammatory meal preparation: prepare minimally processed, whole-food meals emphasizing nutrient density
Teaching kitchen learning laboratory: participate in multidisciplinary nutrition learning through hands-on cooking

Domain: Medical Interventions in Combination with Lifestyle Practices

Highlight: Ambulatory Care

Students practice their skills in motivational interviewing, and the use of diet and lifestyle guidance to manage obesity and blood pressure in standardized patients. Students also participate in a wide variety of chronic disease prevention and management, including the use of GLP-1 agonists, food-based medicine and lifestyle modification. As a part of their service learning at the Stanley Isaacs Center, students also provide advice on diabetes self-management, the DASH diet for managing hypertension, and other lifestyle factors that contribute to wellness.

1) Metabolism and Nutrition

Disease-specific nutritional reversal protocols: implement evidence-based dietary strategies as first-line interventions for metabolic syndrome, prediabetes, type 2 diabetes, metabolic dysfunction-associated fatty liver disease, and polycystic ovarian syndrome; identify patients benefiting from low carbohydrate approaches through metabolic biomarkers, insulin resistance indicators, and response patterns.
Nutraceutical and anti-inflammatory nutrition interventions: apply evidence-based nutraceuticals (omega-3 fatty acids, plant sterols, fiber, polyphenols) and anti-inflammatory dietary patterns as initial interventions to manage dyslipidemia, reduce systemic inflammation, and treat inflammatory conditions.

2) Pharmacology

Disease-specific nutritional reversal protocols: implement evidence-based dietary strategies as first-line interventions for metabolic syndrome, prediabetes, type 2 diabetes, metabolic dysfunction-associated fatty liver disease, and polycystic ovarian syndrome; identify patients benefiting from low carbohydrate approaches through metabolic biomarkers, insulin resistance indicators, and response patterns.

3) Injury, Infection, Immunity and Repair

Nutraceutical and anti-inflammatory nutrition interventions: apply evidence-based nutraceuticals (omega-3 fatty acids, plant sterols, fiber, polyphenols) and anti inflammatory dietary patterns as initial interventions to manage dyslipidemia, reduce systemic inflammation, and treat inflammatory conditions.

4) Neoplasia

GLP-1 agonists counseling with diet and lifestyle guidance
Disease-specific nutritional reversal protocols: implement evidence-based dietary strategies as first-line interventions for metabolic syndrome, prediabetes, type 2 diabetes, metabolic dysfunction-associated fatty liver disease, and polycystic ovarian syndrome; identify patients benefiting from low carbohydrate approaches through metabolic biomarkers, insulin resistance indicators, and response patterns.
Medication-nutrition synergy: guide patients combining medications, surgery, CGM, wearables with lifestyle practices
Prioritize food-based medicine as the primary approach to chronic disease prevention and treatment, integrating both clinical interventions and patient self management strategies

1) Cardiology

Nutraceutical and anti-inflammatory nutrition interventions: apply evidence-based nutraceuticals (omega-3 fatty acids, plant sterols, fiber, polyphenols) and anti inflammatory dietary patterns as initial interventions to manage dyslipidemia, reduce systemic inflammation, and treat inflammatory conditions.
Disease-specific nutritional reversal protocols: implement evidence-based dietary strategies as first-line interventions for metabolic syndrome, prediabetes, type 2 diabetes, metabolic dysfunction-associated fatty liver disease, and polycystic ovarian syndrome; identify patients benefiting from low carbohydrate approaches through metabolic biomarkers, insulin resistance indicators, and response patterns.
Prioritize food-based medicine as the primary approach to chronic disease prevention and treatment, integrating both clinical interventions and patient self management strategies

2) Endocrine

GLP-1 agonists counseling with diet and lifestyle guidance
Disease-specific nutritional reversal protocols: implement evidence-based dietary strategies as first-line interventions for metabolic syndrome, prediabetes, type 2 diabetes, metabolic dysfunction-associated fatty liver disease, and polycystic ovarian syndrome; identify patients benefiting from low carbohydrate approaches through metabolic biomarkers, insulin resistance indicators, and response patterns.
Medication-nutrition synergy: guide patients combining medications, surgery, CGM, wearables with lifestyle practices
Prioritize food-based medicine as the primary approach to chronic disease prevention and treatment, integrating both clinical interventions and patient self management strategies

1) Ambulatory Care

GLP-1 agonists counseling with diet and lifestyle guidance
Prioritize food-based medicine as the primary approach to chronic disease prevention and treatment, integrating both clinical interventions and patient self-management strategies
Disease-specific nutritional reversal protocols: implement evidence-based dietary strategies as first-line interventions for metabolic syndrome, prediabetes, type 2 diabetes, metabolic dysfunction-associated fatty liver disease, and polycystic ovarian syndrome; identify patients benefiting from low carbohydrate approaches through metabolic biomarkers, insulin resistance indicators, and response patterns.

2) Medicine

Disease-specific nutritional reversal protocols: implement evidence-based dietary strategies as first-line interventions for metabolic syndrome, prediabetes, type 2 diabetes, metabolic dysfunction-associated fatty liver disease, and polycystic ovarian syndrome; identify patients benefiting from low carbohydrate approaches through metabolic biomarkers, insulin resistance indicators, and response patterns.

3) Obstetrics - Gynecology

Responsible use of AI for nutrition advice
Medication-nutrition synergy: guide patients combining medications, surgery, CGM, wearables with lifestyle practices

1) Area of Concentration

2) Sub-Internships

3) Electives

Students at Weill Cornell Medicine have dozens of elective options available. Multiple electives have nutrition-focused components, including: HIV medicine and prevention; gastroenterology and hepatology; and pediatric gastroenterology.
One elective example to highlight is KiPow, which is a service learning elective that allows students to benefit from hands-on experience with the complex reality of behavioral choices outside the clinical setting. Trained medical students from Weill Cornell Medicine will visit a local public grade school on a weekly basis to model healthy behaviors for elementary school children; they engage children in active play and teach a health curriculum. Visit the Team KiPow website here.

Domain: Personal Food & Lifestyle Behaviors for Health Care Professions

Highlight: "NYPBeHealthy"

"NYPBeHealthy is the flagship health and wellbeing program at NewYork Presbyterian Hospital, the primary teaching hospital for Weill Cornell Medicine. Students and employees receive guidance on healthy eating at the cafeteria. Campaigns such as the “Healthy Beverage Initiative” have eliminated energy drinks and sugar-sweetened beverages at all food operations within the hospital network, and food choices labelled with the “NYPBeHealthy” identifies the healthiest, most nutritious foods offered at hospital retail outlets.

Endocrine

Identifies factors affecting personal health and nutrition status
Longitudinal biomarker monitoring: track patient progress through iterative laboratory testing and protocol refinement

1) Ambulatory Care

Longitudinal biomarker monitoring: track patient progress through iterative laboratory testing and protocol refinement
Identifies factors affecting personal health and nutrition status

2) Medicine

Disease-specific nutritional reversal protocols: implement evidence-based dietary strategies as first-line interventions for metabolic syndrome, prediabetes, type 2 diabetes, metabolic dysfunction-associated fatty liver disease, and polycystic ovarian syndrome; identify patients benefiting from low carbohydrate approaches through metabolic biomarkers, insulin resistance indicators, and response patterns.

3) Obstetrics - Gynecology

Longitudinal biomarker monitoring: track patient progress through iterative laboratory testing and protocol refinement

Domain: Food Systems and Environmental Impacts

Food Systems and Environmental Impacts

Endocrine

Recognizes and promotes healthy food environments in healthcare delivery settings

1) Medicine

Recognizes and promotes healthy food environments in healthcare delivery settings

2) Obstetrics - Gynecology

Food quality determinants: evaluate nutrient density, chemical residue contamination, and additives as clinical impact elements

1) Health Policy

Recognizes and promotes healthy food environments in healthcare delivery settings

2) Area of Concentration

Domain: Billing, Coding, and Reimbursement for Food and Nutrition Services

Highlight: Medicine

During their Interprofessional Education component, students on their co-learning rounds with dietetics interns will be exposed to practical aspects of dietetics practice, including billing for nutrition services.

Medicine

Billing for nutrition services, culinary medicine consultations with RDNs