ABSTRACT
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| The Nutrition Academic
Award at the University of Texas Medical School at Houston will focus
on the development, implementation, and evaluation of a longitudinal
and case-based curriculum that includes nutrition, physical activity,
and prevention of cardiovascular disease, obesity, diabetes, and other
chronic disease. Working together with our basic science course directors,
clinical clerkship directors, and curriculum committee, we propose
to develop a high quality nutrition curriculum within the existing
medical curriculum and graduate medical education programs. Essential
nutrition topics will be developed into clinically relevant instructional
materials and integrated systematically into the curriculum. Students'
nutrition knowledge, attitudes toward nutrition in patient care, and
clinical nutrition skills will be assessed at regular intervals throughout
the four years; student focus groups will evaluate the effectiveness
of instructional activities. The impact of the NAA initiative will
be seen mostly in the primary care specialties of internal medicine,
family medicine, and pediatrics. The NAA team at the University of
Texas Medical School at Houston includes the Principal Investigator,
Marilyn S. Edwards, Ph.D., R.D., and co-investigators from
the Departments of Internal Medicine, Family Medicine, Pharmacology,
and the Office of Educational Programs: Francisco Fuentes, M.D.,
K. Lance Gould, M.D., Philip Orlander, M.D., Donald
Molony, M.D., Joe Bedford, M.D., Gary Rosenfeld, Ph.D.,
and Linda Perkowsky, Ph.D. The Nutrition Academic Award is
funded by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute for five years,
from April 1, 2000 through March 31, 2005; the University of Texas
Medical School at Houston is one of twenty-one U.S. medical schools
to receive this prestigious award. |
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