For several years, the ACGME has engaged with educators and clinical leaders to strengthen nutrition education and training in graduate medical education (GME). The ACGME’s March 2023 Summit on Medical Education in Nutrition outlined goals for integrating nutrition into GME, proposed a framework for future competencies, and identified opportunities for amplifying nutrition education across the medical education continuum.
Building upon these efforts, the ACGME is taking concrete steps to operationalize and enhance physician competencies related to nutrition across specialties. This will involve developing competency-aligned learning objectives and assessment approaches that are appropriate across educational settings, along with implementation strategies that respect program autonomy while promoting consistency in core outcomes for residents and fellows in direct care specialties.
The ACGME Board of Directors has commissioned a task force that will provide oversight and guidance as the organization works to fulfill these commitments, while ensuring accountability via updates to the Board. The Task Force members are:
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Meredith J. Alston, MD, FACOG |
Obstetrics and Gynecology |
Enterprise Designated Institutional Official, Intermountain Health Women and Infants Department Chair, Saint Joseph Hospital Professor, University of Colorado School of Medicine Co-Chair, ACGME Common Program Requirements Task Force |
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Emily Broad Leib, JD |
Attorney |
Clinical Professor of Law, Harvard Law School Director, Center for Health Law and Policy Innovation Director, Food Law and Policy Clinic |
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Robert Danoff, DO, MS |
Family Medicine |
Program Director, Family Medicine Residency Program Director, Combined Family Medicine/Emergency Medicine Residency Jefferson Health Northeast Clinical Professor of Family and Community Medicine Sidney Kimmel Medical College of Thomas Jefferson University |
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Jessica Darden, DO |
Internal Medicine |
Resident, Edward Via College of Osteopathic Medicine – Virginia Campus |
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Jeffery P. Gold, MD |
Cardiothoracic Surgery |
President, University of Nebraska System |
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Carmen Hooker Odom |
ACGME Board of Directors, Public Member |
Health Policy Consultant |
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Dinchen Jardine, MD, FACS |
Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery |
Chief Academic Officer/ Designated Institutional Official, CAMC Institute for Academic Medicine |
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Joshua Mann, MD, MPH |
Preventive Medicine |
Professor and Chair, Department of Preventive Medicine Interim Chair, Department of Population Health Science School of Medicine and John D. Bower School of Population Health University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, Mississippi |
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Courtney Merlo, DO, RD |
Emergency Medicine |
Resident, Henry Ford Hospital |
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Dariush Mozaffarian, MD, MPH, DrPH |
Cardiology |
Director, Food is Medicine Institute, Tufts University Distinguished Professor, Jean Mayer Professor of Nutrition Dean Emeritus, Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy, Tufts University Professor of Medicine, Tufts School of Medicine and Division of Cardiology |
The ACGME’s aim remains the same as when this work began: To ensure physicians are prepared to provide excellent, evidence-based, compassionate care that recognizes nutrition as a critical component of prevention and treatment.
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