SELECT SNUTR - Nutrition in Medicine

Primary Goals of Selective:

The primary goals of the selective are:

•      to refamiliarize students with the biochemical basis of nutrition and nutrition epidemiology,

•      to prepare senior students to address issues of nutritional health in the clinical setting (including

nutrition assessment and nutrition-related preventive health care.

Specific Objectives:

Students will:

•      complete 12 assigned Nutrition in Medicine (NIM) courses

•      pass the multiple choice exams associated with each course ending with a cumulative score of 75% or

greater

•      develop patient education material (e.g. pamphlet, leaflet, handout, wallet card ,etc.) on an aspect of nutritional health and based on the material from the NIM courses taken. This nutritional education should be directed toward patients or their family members in the intended specialty area of the

student.

Specific Features of this Selective:

This four week required web-based selective will utilize the University of North Carolina Nutrition in Medicine

(NIM) online nutrition education curriculum and provide students with evidence-based clinical nutrition education.

The course directors will provide instruction to students regarding the way in which the NIM website is accessed

and navigated. Because this course is “portable”, it is intended to provide students with a valuable educational

experience during one of the three months of the senior year in which residency interviews are most numerous.

Students may therefore, complete their assigned courses from any Internet accessible location. Students will be

assigned 12 courses from the NIM curriculum, customized to provide nutritional education important in the field of

postgraduate training for which they are applying. NIM courses provide multiple opportunities for self-assessment

and include summative multiple-choice examinations which students are required to pass. After completion of all

assigned NIM courses, students will develop patient education material on an aspect of nutritional health based on

the material learned from their assigned NIM courses and directed toward patients or their family members in the

intended specialty area of the student.

Resources for Learning:

Nutrition in Medicine online Curriculum

Evaluation:

This is a Pass/Fail - Must Pass course. All course requirements must be completed by the end of the Block in which

the course is taken. This includes completing each of the assigned 12 NIM courses, passing the multiple-choice exam associated with each assigned course, with a cumulative score of 75% and in addition, turning in the final patient nutritional education project to the course director. Should a student’s cumulative score fall below 75%, he/she will repeat courses at a location chosen by the course director and also retake the associated final multiple- choice exam. Non-receipt of the assigned final patient nutritional education project to the course director will result in automatic failure of this selective.

 

Blocks 5-7

Pass/Fail