Culinary Medicine Curriculum
My name is Jannel Albury, an Advanced Practice Registered Nurse with interest in bringing a Culinary Medicine curriculum to your institution. This curriculum is based on the foundational work of Michelle Hauser, MD, MS, MPA, FACLM, Chef who created a culinary medicine elective course for medical students at Stanford University School of Medicine in 2017. The course was consistently oversubscribed, with a waitlist at least equal in number to enrolled students, allowing comparison of outcomes among enrolled students versus waitlisted controls. Students who took the course had highly significant overall improvement in attitudes, knowledge, and behavior around healthy cooking and eating (P value <0.0001) compared with controls.
This hands-on teaching kitchen includes 9 class sessions, each of 2 hours’ duration, with an average of approximately 30 minutes of preparatory work for each session. This course is designed to expose medical students, nursing students and other allied health professionals to the fundamentals of cooking to both improve personal health and more effectively counsel patients on diet and nutrition. The emphasis of this course is on using fundamental culinary skills for the basic preparation of healthy and delicious whole foods.
In our society, healthy food is unfortunately thought to be synonymous with bad taste. Through hands-on practice of fundamental culinary skills, students will learn the basics of preparing delicious, healthy food that rivals (and surpasses) the craveability of the ubiquitous, unhealthy fare that they’re exposed to daily.
This course is led by a Nurse Practitioner and Nutritionist who have a passion for health and cooking. All levels of cooking experience are welcome and encouraged (including NO experience!). Everyone will eat what they’ve prepared at the end of each class.
Course logistics and syllabus are available for evaluation. The course outline includes:
Session 1: Introduction to Kitchen Basics
Session 2: Sauté, Stir-Fry, Simmer, & Braise
Session 3: Roasting
Session 4: Soups and Salads
Session 5: Beans & Grains: Building Healthy Bowls
Session 6: Healthy Breakfasts
Session 7: Pastas and Sauces
Session 8: The Dessert Flip & Healthy Desserts
Session 9: Final Potluck (Final Project)
We look forward to collaborating with you. Please contact us for further details.
Warm regards
Jannel Albury
DNP, APRN, Dip. ACLM
diabeteswellnessconsulting.com
931-213-0153