The University of South Carolina School of Medicine Greenville announced its support for the Association of American Medical Colleges’ call to strengthen nutrition training in medical education on Nov. 11.
The AAMC issued a call to action on Nov. 6 for medical schools and academic health systems across the country to advance nutrition education. USC School of Medicine Greenville was the first medical school in the country to incorporate nutrition and physical activity into its four-year curriculum.
“As a leader in lifestyle medicine education curriculum for over a decade, the School of Medicine Greenville is honored to help lead efforts to expand and prioritize nutrition and lifestyle medicine as a cornerstone of medical education for our nation’s future physicians,” said Phyllis MacGilvray, dean of the USC School of Medicine Greenville.
The USC School of Medicine educates its clinical students in lifestyle medicine to prevent and treat lifestyle-related chronic disease. Students recieve more than 100 hours of nutrition and lifestyle medicine training across four years.
“We opened our doors 13 years ago, committed to training the kind of doctor who would have the competencies to help patients prevent and treat our nation’s chronic diseases through healthy lifestyle behaviors. That’s why nutrition needs to be at the heart of healthcare,” Jennifer Trilk, director of lifestyle medicine programs at USC School of Medicine Greenville.
For more information, visit sc.edu/study/colleges_schools/medicine_greenville/medical_education/lifestyle_medicine.
