TY - JOUR
T1 - Mapping nutrition within medical curricula in Australia and New Zealand
T2 - A cross-sectional content analysis
AU - King, Ryan E.
AU - Palermo, Claire
AU - Wilson, Alyce N.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2023/12/1
Y1 - 2023/12/1
N2 - Objective To systematically map nutrition content in medical curricula across all 23 medical schools in Australia and New Zealand accredited by the Australian Medical Council (AMC). Methods A cross-sectional content analysis was conducted. Learning outcomes for 20 AMC-accredited medical curricula were extracted from online repositories and directly from universities in February to April 2021. Nutrition relevant learning outcomes or equivalent learning objectives/graduate attributes were identified. Nutrition learning outcomes were analysed according to Bloom's revised taxonomy to determine whether outcomes met cognitive, psychomotor or affective domains and at what level. Results Of the total 23 AMC-accredited medical curricula, 20 medical schools had learning outcomes able to be sourced for analysis. A total of 186 nutrition learning outcomes were identified within 11 medical curricula. One medical school curriculum comprised 129 of 186 (69.4%) nutrition learning outcomes. The majority of outcomes (181, 97.3%) were in the cognitive domain of Bloom's revised taxonomy, predominantly at level 3 € applying' (90, 49.7%). The psychomotor domain contained five nutrition learning outcomes (5, 2.7%), while the affective domain contained none. New Zealand medical curricula (153, 82.3%) contained 4.6-fold more nutrition learning outcomes than Australian curricula (33, 17.7%). When comparing clinical and preclinical years across curricula, the proportion of learning outcomes in the psychomotor domain was 3.7-fold higher in clinical years (4.08%) versus preclinical years (1.15%). Conclusion There is wide variation across medical curricula regarding the number of nutrition learning outcomes. This may lead to varying competency of medical graduates to provide nutrition care in Australia and New Zealand.
AB - Objective To systematically map nutrition content in medical curricula across all 23 medical schools in Australia and New Zealand accredited by the Australian Medical Council (AMC). Methods A cross-sectional content analysis was conducted. Learning outcomes for 20 AMC-accredited medical curricula were extracted from online repositories and directly from universities in February to April 2021. Nutrition relevant learning outcomes or equivalent learning objectives/graduate attributes were identified. Nutrition learning outcomes were analysed according to Bloom's revised taxonomy to determine whether outcomes met cognitive, psychomotor or affective domains and at what level. Results Of the total 23 AMC-accredited medical curricula, 20 medical schools had learning outcomes able to be sourced for analysis. A total of 186 nutrition learning outcomes were identified within 11 medical curricula. One medical school curriculum comprised 129 of 186 (69.4%) nutrition learning outcomes. The majority of outcomes (181, 97.3%) were in the cognitive domain of Bloom's revised taxonomy, predominantly at level 3 € applying' (90, 49.7%). The psychomotor domain contained five nutrition learning outcomes (5, 2.7%), while the affective domain contained none. New Zealand medical curricula (153, 82.3%) contained 4.6-fold more nutrition learning outcomes than Australian curricula (33, 17.7%). When comparing clinical and preclinical years across curricula, the proportion of learning outcomes in the psychomotor domain was 3.7-fold higher in clinical years (4.08%) versus preclinical years (1.15%). Conclusion There is wide variation across medical curricula regarding the number of nutrition learning outcomes. This may lead to varying competency of medical graduates to provide nutrition care in Australia and New Zealand.
KW - Malnutrition
KW - Nutrition assessment
KW - Nutritional treatment
KW - Preventive counselling
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U2 - 10.1136/bmjnph-2022-000522
DO - 10.1136/bmjnph-2022-000522
M3 - Article
C2 - 38618533
AN - SCOPUS:85177599689
SN - 2516-5542
VL - 6
SP - 196
EP - 202
JO - BMJ Nutrition, Prevention and Health
JF - BMJ Nutrition, Prevention and Health
IS - 2
ER -