Harvard Medical School students are learning to cook delicious meals to better care for their future patients 🥘 Now in its third year, the Culinary Medicine and Nutrition Course—co-taught by a physician, a registered dietitian, and an executive chef—covers topics like preventative medicine, hypertension, and food insecurity. Each week’s class includes a lecture, hands-on cooking sessions making recipes related to the day’s topics, a family-style meal, and counseling practice. The goal of the course is to build the students’ confidence in the kitchen so they can more effectively discuss diet and nutrition with patients. In 1942, the first department of nutrition at any school of medicine or public health worldwide was founded at Harvard. Today, requirements and electives in nutrition are part of the curriculum, with the courses underscoring the value of physicians teaming up with health professionals like dietitians, who can work more intensively with patients to develop and mainta...