Medical students
traded stethoscopes for skillets this spring in a course designed to
make learning how to cook part of the path to becoming a doctor.
"Cooking skills are an incredible tool
for any doctor in any specialty," said Dr. Geeta Maker-Clark, a clinical
assistant professor and coordinator of integrative medical education at
the University of Chicago who, together with Dr. Sonia Oyola, launched
the culinary medicine program at the Pritzker School of Medicine. "They
help you become a change agent for your patients."
Chicago's culinary medicine curriculum and similar programs at other schools are targeted, at least in part, at a rising obesity rate among U.S. adults, which increased from 25.5 percent in 2008 to 27.7 percent in 2014, according to Gallup. But this plan for doctors to use cooking skills to create a healthier population is challenged by one ever-present concern in the medical profession, health experts said: patients aren't that good at following doctor's orders.
Read more at http://national.deseretnews.com/article/5628/Why-patients-dont-follow-doctors-orders-2-and-what-doctors-could-do-about-it.html#CKymU3PydppSc0IE.99
Chicago's culinary medicine curriculum and similar programs at other schools are targeted, at least in part, at a rising obesity rate among U.S. adults, which increased from 25.5 percent in 2008 to 27.7 percent in 2014, according to Gallup. But this plan for doctors to use cooking skills to create a healthier population is challenged by one ever-present concern in the medical profession, health experts said: patients aren't that good at following doctor's orders.
Read more at http://national.deseretnews.com/article/5628/Why-patients-dont-follow-doctors-orders-2-and-what-doctors-could-do-about-it.html#CKymU3PydppSc0IE.99
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