COURSE DESCRIPTION:
The Interprofessional Culinary Medicine elective at the University of Maryland, Baltimore will bring together professional students from medicine, pharmacy, dentistry, social work, and law. The elective will occur virtually during the spring 2024 semester and will offer students the opportunity to earn 1 credit. It will provide comprehensive, evidence-based nutrition instruction and cooking demos led by culinary experts, then live/virtual group discussions. Students will have the opportunity to cook meals using simple ingredients and common cooking tools in the theme of the nutrition instruction provided in their own home. The students will then eat/discuss what they have cooked together, allowing for the development of a greater appreciation across the disciplines.
All culinary health and medicine sessions will include a practical focus on surmounting common barriers to healthy nutrition habit changes to enable better personal, patient, client, family, and community care. To round out the experience, students will have an opportunity to bring their nutrition knowledge into a final assignment. This practical, hands-on experience offered to the culinary health and medicine course participants will add to the breadth of their practice.
COURSE ACTIVITIES/DELIVERY:
The course is structured into 30-60 minutes didactic nutrition content videos, cooking demo videos and live/virtual sessions, and assignments (2). Live/virtual sessions will occur select Wednesday evenings from 6-7:15 p.m. online. There will be two sections. Students will be assigned to either Section 1 or Section 2 by the instructors. Section 1 will meet from 6-6:30 p.m. and Section 2 will meet from 6:45-7:15 p.m.
DATES:
- Wednesday, Feb. 7
- Wednesday, Feb. 21
- Wednesday, March 13
- Wednesday, March 27
- Wednesday, April 17
STUDENT ELIGIBILITY/APPLICATION:
School programs vary and with confirmation from academic advisors from the schools, the following students are eligible to apply: School of Medicine, fourth years; School of Pharmacy, second years; School of Dentistry, third or fourth years; School of Social Work, foundation or advanced years; and Maryland Carey Law students. Applications may be submitted between Nov. 6 and Dec. 11. Applicants will be notified by Jan. 5 with a decision on acceptance. Upon acceptance into the course, students will be enrolled automatically and do not need to register during the web-based registration period in the fall.
Please complete the application by using this link.
https://umaryland.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_3Xk1wizX5riZJQO
Lead instructors for the course include Lauren M. Hynicka, PharmD, BCPS, RYT-200, School of Pharmacy, lhynicka@rx.umaryland.edu, and Christopher R. D'Adamo, PhD, School of Medicine, cdadamo@som.umaryland.edu.