Naira Ikram, Laura B Lewandowski, Melissa H Watt, Christiaan Scott
Barriers and facilitators to medical care retention for pediatric systemic lupus erythematosus in South Africa: a qualitative study
Pediatric rheumatology online journal
culinary medicine recently increased popularity medical education incorporates food nutritional interventions principles disease prevention treatment ultimate goal improve overall health outcomes growing prevalence dietrelated chronic diseases indicates need physicians deeper understanding interplay nutrition disease incorporating culinary medicine medical education equip medical students necessary skills knowledge promote better patient outcomes purpose study evaluate students perceptions foundational knowledge culinary medicine course completion course first secondyear medical students pcom philadelphia college osteopathic medicine also examine difference methods instruction relation constructs discussed knowledge gained enjoyment course retrospective cohort study conducted using surveymonkey momentive data collected osteopathic medical students enrolled culinary medicine course pcom 2018 2022 completion postcourse survey methods instruction included either virtual inperson classroom statistical analysis study conducted using ibm spss statistics version 28 compare methods instruction statistical analyses used included descriptive statistics chisquare analysis oneway anova independent sample onesided tests total 360 430 participants spanning years 2018 2022 completed course requirements participated online survey valid sample size 249 inperson group 111 virtual instruction group knowledge gained construct consisted five survey questions total possible score 25 enjoyment construct consisted two questions total possible score 10 statistically significant difference knowledge gained identified oneway anova f 4355 3853 p 004 additionally statistically significant difference enjoyment course class years f 4356 11977 p 001 independent sample ttests revealed statistically significant difference enjoyment two methods p 001 even accounting unequal variances cohens equal 0807 indicating moderate effect size findings study suggest overall students highly satisfied culinary medicine course fiveyear period study suggested students participated inperson courses benefitted virtual students terms knowledge gained enjoyment 360 students completed culinary medicine course highly satisfied information skills acquired