Editorial: D-H, Geisel School Step Up Nutrition Focus – Valley News

Read article - Quotes Rima Itani Al-Nimr, director of the Nutrition in Medical Education program, in an editorial examining how physicians and medical students around the country and the world—including those at the Geisel School of Medicine and Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center— have begun emphasizing nutrition and the role food can play in preventing disease and helping patients establish lifestyles that promote good health. Geisel is significantly expanding its focus on food and diet by incorporating evidence-based nutrition study across all four years of the curriculum. "We've realized that we can't graduate the complete physician unless we include a significant nutrition component," says Al-Nimr.