Over 50 medical schools pledged Thursday to boost their nutrition education amid a push from Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and his allies.
Kennedy has frequently argued medical schools fail to equip future doctors with the ability to help prevent chronic diseases through better eating habits, and the administration has been in talks with schools to increase such training. Fifty-three schools across 31 states have agreed to assess their current curriculum and post plans for reaching roughly 40 hours of nutrition education or an equivalent starting this coming fall, according to the Department of Health and Human Services.
