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Mike Mitka

JAMA. 2000;284:817-818.

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Physicians tired of receiving continuing medical education (CME) at skiing and golfing resorts have a different opportunity in 2001—picking fresh vegetables from a market and cooking in an Italian kitchen.

The Harvard School of Public Health and Oldways Preservation & Exchange Trust will offer a CME course in Milan or Naples next spring to teach physicians about the benefits of the Mediterranean Food Pyramid and how it should be incorporated into their practices.

K. Dun Gifford, president and founder of Oldways, said such a program is needed because while patients believe their physicians are the best source of nutrition information; physicians receive almost no training in nutrition during medical school or while in residency.

NUTRITION A CHALLENGE

"Physicians tell us that one of their most challenging situations is answering nutrition questions," said Gifford from the Cambridge, Mass, office of his nonprofit food issues think tank.

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