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 2022 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 followed by 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 and 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- to 60-minute didactic nutrition content videos, cooking demo videos, and live/virtual sessions and assignments (2). Live/virtual sessions will occur select Wednesday evenings from 6 p.m. to 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 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. and section 2 will meet from 6:45 p.m. to 7:15 p.m.
Course Schedule
The sessions will be every third Wednesday during the spring semester on Zoom.
Jan. 26, Feb. 16, March 9, March 30, April 20, and April 27 (backup date)
Student Eligibility/Application
Students' school programs vary and with confirmation from academic advisors from the schools, the following students are eligible to apply: SOM — 4th years, SOP — 2nd years, SOD — 3rd or 4th years, SOSW — Foundation or Advanced years, and SOL. Applications may be submitted anytime between Dec. 1 and Dec. 24. Applicants will be notified by Jan. 14 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 your application here:
https://umaryland.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_3Xk1wizX5riZJQO
Lead instructors for the course include Dr. Hynicka (lhynicka@rx.umaryland.edu), Dr. D’Adamo (cdadamo@som.umaryland.edu), and Dr. Rambob (IRambob@umaryland.edu)
If you have any questions, please contact Dr. Lauren Hynicka at lhynicka@rx.umaryland.edu