Course Learning Objectives:
Through plenary lectures, culinary demonstrations, hands-on kitchen sessions, interactive workshops, and meals and tastings, attendees will achieve the following learning objectives:
Summarize the latest scientific evidence and trends regarding the relationships between food, nutrition, lifestyle behaviors, personal and planetary health outcomes, and health equity.
Identify practical approaches for clinicians to assess patients’ nutritional and lifestyle habits and provide meaningful guidance to positively influence behavior change and, ultimately, health status.
Apply information acquired during didactic and hands-on kitchen session(s) to prepare a variety of technique-driven, recipe-inspired dishes that can be customized at home for providers, their patients, and families.
Discover globally inspired, plant-forward foods, recipes, and culinary techniques to facilitate enhanced food and culinary literacy, cultural competency, and home cooking among providers and their patients.
Describe ways in which interprofessional and collaborative healthcare teams (which may include physicians, dietitians, chefs, health coaches, and others) can be created and nurtured across healthcare settings to improve health outcomes for patients.
Identify challenges and opportunities to start and/or build upon existing food and cooking-based health interventions within one’s own organization and/or community.