Evaluation of the reach and utilization of the American College of Lifestyle Medicine's Culinary Medicine Curriculum.

Introduction: Despite the growing interest in "food as medicine," healthcare professionals have very limited exposure to nutrition as part of their training. Culinary medicine (CM), an evidence-based field integrating nutrition education with culinary knowledge and skills, offers one approach to fill this training gap. The American College of Lifestyle Medicine published a complimentary Culinary Medicine Curriculum (CMC) in 2019, and the objective of this study is to evaluate its reach and utilization, as well as to collect feedback from users.

Establishing Competencies for Physicians Who Specialize in the Practice of Lifestyle Medicine.

This activity by the Expert Lifestyle Medicine Panel (ELMP) proposes a set of competencies for providers who specialize in the practice of lifestyle medicine (LM), focused on intensive therapeutic lifestyle change. ELMP invited a core consensus group consisting of 13 providers who specialize in LM and key stakeholders to develop, by consensus, a set of competencies for those specializing in the practice of LM based on the LM core competencies for primary care physicians published in 2010. Two ELMP members (JK and MCK) facilitated and moderated the consensus process conducted by email and teleconference.