Following successful piloting at the University Medical School Göttingen, two further universities, the Brandenburg Medical School Theodor Fontane and the Justus Liebig University Giessen, have started teaching the innovative elective Culinary Medicine for the summer semester 2021. A joint evaluation has been launched. Culinary Medicine translates current nutritional medical findings into the living environments of patients and improves medical counselling competence in nutrition-associated diseases. The indication-related cooking course (Teaching Kitchen) is based on the consensus paper Leitfaden Ernährungstherapie in Klinik und Praxis (LEKuP).
Month: April 2021
Culinary Medicine debuts as a new elective for medical students at University Medical Center Göttingen Germany
Posted on 16 February 2021 Source: IDW-Online Nachrichtendienst In cooperation with CookUOS e.V., the Institute for Nutrition and Psychology at the Georg-August University of Göttingen, University Medical Center, has developed a new evidence-based "Culinary Medicine" elective for medical students in Germany and piloted it for the first time in the winter semester 2020/21. Culinary Medicine combines medicine,...
PD Dr Thomas Ellrott on "Culinary Medicine": Cooking with medical students
Led by Stefanie Hanke / Ärzteblatt "Eat healthier and lose a few kilos" - this is what patients often hear from their doctors. However, many patients find it difficult to put this advice into practice when it is so vague. The new subject "Culinary Medicine" is intended to make future doctors more competent advisors in nutrition and...