Eight medical groups and more than a dozen medical schools have pledged to ramp up education on nutrition, officials announced on June 8.
The National Board of Medical Examiners and American Association of Colleges of Osteopathic Medicine were among the eight medical accrediting, assessment, and board organizations that reached an agreement with the Department of Health and Human Services to implement nutrition education reform across programs for medical students and professionals, Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said.
Kennedy has prioritized increasing nutrition education in schools, and in March, he announced that 53 schools were going to require a minimum of 40 hours of nutrition education….