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Nutrition has always been high on my list of important topics, and yes, they do teach the subject in medical school. It used to be that it was an elective set
by jrapdx3 11y ago
Nutrition has always been high on my list of important topics, and yes, they do teach the subject in medical school. It used to be that it was an elective set of courses, so true, not all medical students became well-versed in it. Not sure how much it's changed, though I suspect nutrition is still not widely enough taught.
Interestingly, when I was a kid in the 8th grade it was standard practice to have the boys and girls switch shop/home ec classes a few times during the school year. It was certainly educational for me. Actually the students rather liked doing this, and no doubt quite an enlightened policy for the time.
As for behavior modification, no reason a doctor wouldn't be able to be skilled and assist patients needing help with dietary management, etc. Doctors have to do a lot of that sort of thing anyway since many conditions and treatments require "lifestyle" changes. Of course, some doctors will be better at it, and others not so adept. But that's pretty much the case re: certain skill sets among those in any given occupation.
- semi-extrinsic 11y ago> when I was a kid in the 8th grade it was standard practice to have the boys and girls switch shop/home ec classes a few times during the school year Growing up in Norway, "home ec" was a mandatory subject, 2 hrs/week, for everyone in 6th grade and again in 9th grade. Shop class was also mandatory for everyone: I remember in 10th grade everyone made their own outdoor knife (well, we made the sheaths from leather, the handles from wood, and then we got the blades and joined them in; no blacksmithing). In 9th grade we also had outdoor cooking (on a fire) for a rotating 1/4 of the class every week, summer and winter. Fun times, smelling so badly of campfire that the 1/4 of class was shunned by others for the rest of the day.