The Doctor is In (the Kitchen): Teaching Kitchen Elective for Medical & PA Students

This 8-week elective course exposes medical & PA students to fundamental cooking skills in the context of learning healthy behaviors in order to counsel patients effectively on nutrition and diet as future clinicians and also for bettering one's own health. The emphasis of this course is on the basic preparation of healthy and delicious whole foods and the applications of these basic culinary skills. This engaging course will be taught both by dually trained chef/MDs and by MD and nutrition science (PhD) faculty who have a passion for cooking without any formal training. No cooking experience required. Instructor approval required for registration. Course is open to MD & PA students only.(NOTE: this course was previously listed as FAMMED242)