Nutrition in medical education with Nutritank

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In this episode, host and final year medical student Linda chats to Ally Jaffee (she/her) and Dr Iain Broadley (he/him) who founded Nutritank, one of the first student-lead lifestyle medicine initiatives in the UK. Nutritank is "an innovative information hub of food, nutrition and lifestyle medicine. Promoting the need for greater nutrition and lifestyle medicine education within healthcare training and empowering members of the public to improve their health" (source).

The interview covers

We discuss WHY it is so important for medical students and doctors to learn about nutrition, despite there being dedicated allied healthcare professionals such as dieticians, why it is proving challenging to get lifestyle medicine in UK medical school curricula, what culinary medicine and social prescribing involve as well as lots of information about what Nutritank is, has achieved and the opportunities they provide for students. 

 

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