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Practice Commentary
John E. Verby, MD
Arch Fam Med. 1992;1(1):82.
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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.
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Author Affiliations
Bloomington, Minn
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