Summary: Medical education is in transition – but not rapidly enough, according to a several reformers we’ll hear. For one thing, instruction in nutrition remains mostly marginalized in medical school, despite widespread health care crises related to dietary intake (obesity, heart disease and diabetes). In this segment, we visit medical students at the third largest U.S. college campus, Ohio State University in Columbus, who are committed to a greater focus on wellness. We hear their vision of health care in the future. And we join them for a cooking class, led by visionary chef Laura Robertson-Boyd, where future physicians learn important knowledge they will be called on to impart to their patients. We also travel to Tucson for a conversation with University of Arizona medical professor Victoria Maizes, MD, whose widely acclaimed curriculum in integrative care provides current health professionals with “the education you didn’t get” in conventional medical school. Also, an exploration of “health coaching” for positive lifestyle change, with an expert from University of Minnesota, Karen Lawson, MD.
