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Practice Commentary

John E. Verby, MD

Arch Fam Med. 1992;1(1):82.

Since this article does not have an abstract, we have provided the first 150 words of the full text PDF and any section headings.

In my 22 years in clinical practice, I confess I never took an adequate nutritional history and received no formal nutritional training until my daughter educated me after she graduated in 1980 with a Masters of Science degree in food science and nutrition and obtained her Registered Dietitian licence. Our collaborated research involved 155 primary-care physicians (majority family physicians) throughout the state of Minnesota, along with 110 medical school faculty and third-year medical students.1 Analysis of their 265 responses revealed that all wanted more updated information.

Over the past 20 years, I have been in charge of administration and academics for 640 third-year medical students assigned to rural family physicians for undergoing 9 to 12 months of formal medical school-accredited clinical training.2 All are videotaped taking a complete history from a patient with real complaints in their preceptor's community.3 Less than 1% have taken a nutritional history. . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]


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Bloomington, Minn






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