A Recipe for Wellbeing: Improving Provider Wellbeing, Eating Habits and Nutrition Knowledge Through a Brief Experiential Cooking Course

Abstract

PURPOSE: The U.S. healthcare system is overwhelmed by diet- and lifestyle-related diseases and, increasingly, provider burnout. (1,2) Most health professionals receive inadequate education around lifestyle-based health promotion, the impact of food choices on one’s health and strategies for personal wellbeing. (3) Over the course of health professions training programs, students often experience growing rates of burnout themselves. (4, 5) To meet these challenges, a Chef/MPH and integrative medicine physician developed “Food Matters for Health Professionals,” a brief, experiential, interprofessional …