Cooking demonstrations to teach nutrition counseling and social determinants of health.

Background: Future physicians should feel comfortable educating patients on disease-specific diets, and culinary medicine is an innovative approach to preparing medical students for this task. We present an engaged-learning program where medical students give community cooking demonstrations to gain experience counseling adults on nutrition and simultaneously develop understanding of the social determinants of health. Student volunteers undergo training in culinary skills, nutrition, motivational interviewing, and social determinants of health.

Optic disc pit maculopathy: tamponade of maculoschisis.

Purpose: To present rapid and safe closure of the pit-macula communication (PMC) by core vitrectomy and adequate duration gas tamponade as our preferred method of resolving optic disc pit (ODP) maculopathy and to define the term "maculoschisis" in ODP maculopathy as an alternative to the term "schisis-like."

Patient And Methods: A twenty-four-year-old female presented with an optical coherence tomography (OCT) confirmed ODP and a "giant" communicating maculoschisis cavity. Central macular thickness (CMT) measured 906 microns, and macular volume was twice normal, at 20.