Mandatory Nutrition Training for Alabama Medical Students

0:00Hey, it's Cory, with Birmingham News today, your city, your news, every day. Starting this fall, medical students at 53 schools across 31 states must complete 40 hours of nutrition training before. Graduation. That includes three schools in Alabama. Leaders from the Department of Health and Human Services and the Department of Education made the announcement on Thursday, March 5, during an Ann. Event in Washington. The Alabama Schools Committee are the University of Alabama at Birmingham, the University of South Alabama, and the Edward Vehicle College of Osteopathic. Medicine, which has a campus in Auburn, the HHS secretary described the change as the major step forward in how doctors get trained. It aims to build better skills and nutrition right for medical school. To back the program, the Department is providing $5 million through the National Institutes of Health. The money will fund course creation, hands-on clinical training, and related research. Meanwhile, the American Medical Association President highlighted growing support for adding

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