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Research Article: Culinary medicine in medical education: a pilot study targeting cancer risk reduction strategies through culinary and lifestyle medicine education

Date Published: 2025-04-25

Abstract:
Introduction: Culinary Medicine (CM) is an avenue for interdisciplinary nutrition education intervention utilizing the expertise of dietitians, physicians, and other health care professionals (HCP). Despite the positive impacts that CM interventions can have on health, physician CM knowledge is lacking due in part to inadequate nutrition education in medical school curriculum. CM as a nutrition education modality promotes health and disease management for patients and providers, so it is critical to increase competency in CM. This pilot study evaluated the impact of a cancer prevention specific CM curriculum on medical students’ (i) cancer risk reduction (CRR) knowledge, (ii) CRR assessment/counseling attitudes and self-efficacy in clinical care, and (iii) personal health behaviors and cooking skills.

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