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  • Medical Education
  • Nutritional Science
  • Public Health

Background:

  • Nutrition is vital for human and planetary health, yet underrepresented in medical curricula.
  • Current dietary patterns contribute to non-communicable diseases and environmental degradation.
  • German medical schools inadequately address nutrition's role in health and disease.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To present a two-week nutrition and fasting course for 8th-semester medical students at Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin.
  • To integrate human and planetary health perspectives into medical education.
  • To evaluate the course's effectiveness using a mixed-methods approach.

Main Methods:

  • Iterative curriculum development using the Kern cycle.
  • Mixed-methods evaluation over two semesters, including quantitative questionnaires and qualitative interviews.
  • Assessment of overall module rating, content, teaching methods, instructor performance, and participant experience.

Main Results:

  • A highly participative 37.5-hour course was developed, focusing on nutrition's role in health, global food systems, communication, and culinary medicine.
  • 77.8% of participants rated the course as very good or good.
  • A statistically significant increase in the conviction that nutrition influences health and disease was observed (p=0.005).

Conclusions:

  • The course effectively enhanced medical students' understanding of nutrition's impact on health and disease.
  • Positive feedback highlighted the course content, didactic diversity, and group experience.
  • Findings suggest incorporating comprehensive nutrition curricula into medical education is beneficial.