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Nutrition Education

Educational organisations, lists, theory

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Educational organisations, lists, theory

American Dietetic Association position statement on nutrition education for health professionals.: A statement of hope more than a report on the actual situation!
ADA: Position: Nutrition education for health care professionals: From late 1997, this is a well referenced paper.
American Medical Students Association: Have some policies about food and nutrition.
The American Society for Clinical Nutrition: Includes AJCN.
FAO Nutrition Education and Training Group: "FAO Nutrition Education and Training Group assists governments in their efforts to improve nutrition knowledge and dietary habits." The web site has some useful on-line reports, with a focus on public health, food safety and food security.
GNA (Globewide Network Academy): Quite a long list when you chose the nutrition categories, from this web site concerned with programs at university and colleges, particularly distance education and with plenty of the smaller colleges appearing.
Nutrition in Medicine Project: Information for users (medical students and teachers) of this important new initiative being mainly put together at the University of North Carolina to teach nutrition education to medical students. Also has some web links. The actual material is available on CD.
Organization for Nutrition Education: "To promote open communication, networking and cooperative efforts among nutrition educators throughout Canada." Some information on the organisation and a quite long set of links.
A Review of the Research on the Effects of Training in Nutrition Education on Intermediaries, Paraprofessionals and Professionals: Technical plain text paper by Christine M. Olson, Ph.D., R.D. prepared for the USDA in 1994.
Society for Nutrition Education: Information on its activities, special interest groups. Links, newsletters and some documents. A separate site is maintained for the Society's Jourrnal of Nutrition Education.
Uni.California at Davis: Nutrition Multimedia Education: Nutrition Schools (with curriculum), courses, consumer information

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EDUCATION: course material

Nutrition in Medicine: Project to produce interactive material on clinical nutrition for medical students, mainly through CD-ROM series. Web site is less interesting than the project, which is an important development in medical nutrition education. The site has some accompanying notes and a few links, as well as information about the project and how to get engaged with it.
Uni.of Pennsylvania Medical School: Nutrition in Medicine course: There are a variety of materials accessible on-line related to this course. They include the administrative elements (e.g. course requirements) as well as substantive content (slides , quizes, case studies etc). Worth a look.
Univ.of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center: Clinical Nutrition Course: An worthwhile effort by dietitian Stephen Clarke to make a clinical nutrition course come alive in an interactive web based package. It has several components, including `pocket-book' lab and other data, a slide show of lecture overheads on laboratory assessment (unfortunately no graphics, just words), case histories with problems to solve (and answers available) and other administrative and assigment matters related to the course. Very entertaining and an laudable project.

Uni.of Delaware: course in Nutrition Concepts: Some of it is just admin material for the students, but there are also student project reports (eating disorders) and true false scored quizes ("drills"), plus a short list of Internet links.
North Carolina State University food science courses: The directory lists individual courses, the individual listings for which have a link to the web pages supporting that course. Some have no additional material, whilst others have sample questions, links etc.

Indiana University: Prehistoric Diet:course: Course information for their students, but there are some useful references to reading matter relevant to the subject.

Univ.of Kentucky, Food Science courses on-line: Experiment to put some lecture notes and resource links up for some of their food science courses. At present what there is is mainly administrative information for the students, including lists of references, some old exam questions, and a set of links to relevant web resources for each course.
Knowledge Management in Health Services: Course material by Laura Larsen, with some material on Internet knowledge management.
Lund University: Internet-based course on food technology: In Swedish, lengthy but plain text.

Univ.of Minnesota food science and nutrition courses: student guides

The availability of didactic material varies from course to course, but some have sample exam questions, study cases, or web links to guide the students..

NetBiochem : introductory Nutrition course.

Notes for an introductory nutrition course as part of a site which features material on nutritional biochmistry.

Nutrition and Weight Management Online Course by LearnWell

Interesting idea. Targetted at nurses and others, this is an on-line tutorial more than anything, which is offered for free on-line (or as part of a credit course from Griggs University or Cosumnes River College.) It utilises mainly links to other web sites for access to nutrition information, based around a question format. It is intended to take about 3 hours to work through. The set of links provided makes for an interesting albeit necesswarily very selective tour of nutrition on the Internet.

Uniformed Services University: Nutrition exam

Multi-choice exam in biochemistry on nutrition. Has an unusual frames option as an alternative.

Uni. of Vermont: underwater weighing tutorial

Still in developoment, this is a Shockwave animation tutorial on the very technical issues involved in underwater weighing.

The Student Nutrition Club

At the University of North Florida, Jacksonville, "provides its members opportunities for professional growth, camaraderie, and exchange of information in the field of Nutrition and Dietetics." In practice, this site offers a modest set of links to other nutrition sites of interest to dietetics students.

Healthy School Meals Training Materials Database

Search by subject or title. From the USDA School Nutrition Program.

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EDUCATION: miscellaneous

Nutrition for medical students: report of AMA Council on medical education: (1997): Nutritional and Dietetic Education for Medical Students is the official title of this AMA meeting held in 1997, and this is the report from it. It has some useful data, as well as recommendations and resolutions.
Nutrition in Medicine Series: "a program whose mission is to increase and advance the nutrition training that medical students receive. With the help of their advisory board, MNCI team members have developed an interactive, multi-media software series that is available to medical schools throughout the United States. " That is about all that this page contains!
New technology in nutrition education: This is an article originally written by Prof.Kathryn Kolosa for PHNFLASH, the WHO's information service on public health and nutrition. It deals in some depth with the application of computers and other new technology to the area of nutrition. Prof.Kolosa has been involved in this area, as well as in the teaching of nutrition to physicians.
Food For Health: Commercial newsletter with nutrition education ideas and resources, particularly focussed on food and recipes. The web site has some content from the newsletter, and urls linking to useful sites related to each month's content.
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This is a collection of links on nutrition education, including educational links, principles and methodology of education, use of multi-media and CD ROM in nutrition education, syllabus and content on-line. This is a collection of links on nutrition education, including educational links, principles and methodology of education, use of multi-media and CD ROM in nutrition education, syllabus and content on-line. This is a collection of links on nutrition education, including educational links, principles and methodology of education, use of multi-media and CD ROM in nutrition education, syllabus and content on-line.