Eight Medical Accrediting Bodies Agree to Increase Nutrition Training Requirements
The Department of Health and Human Services announced Monday that eight organizations agreed to increase nutrition requirements across U.S. medical education. Nineteen additional medical schools also joined the pledge.
abcnews.go.comU.S. medical education, competency-evaluation, training, and residency. The organizations are the National Board of Medical Examiners, the National Board of Osteopathic Medical Examiners, the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education, the Liaison Committee on Medical Education, the Commission on Osteopathic College Accreditation, the American Board of Medical Specialties, the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education, and the American Association of Colleges of Osteopathic Medicine.
S. D. programs. The release did not specify what the increased nutrition requirements will be. Nineteen more schools joined the pledge on Monday.
The new participants are the University of Massachusetts, the University of Maryland, St. Louis University School of Medicine, Hofstra University, and Texas A&M University. Earlier this year, the Trump administration announced partnerships with dozens of medical schools that would incorporate 40 hours of nutrition education before graduation.
“Poor diets are the primary driver of America’s chronic disease epidemic, and today’s announcement reflects the shifting landscape toward placing nutrition and prevention at the core of patient health,” HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said in a statement.
