Nutrition Education and Training

The Section of Nutrition provides training at all levels for health care providers, including:

• Required and elective courses for medical students at the University of Colorado School of Medicine (CUSOM) at the Anschutz Medical Campus
• Lectures through the CUSOM Trek Curriculum for the pre-clinical medical students and for the pediatric clerkship
• Resident clinical nutritional training opportunities
  
• Nutrition T32 Post-Doc fellowship training​
• Continuing education for practicing physicians
• An elective for internal medicine residents

Current and Past Nutrition Fellows

Section faculty members also provide supervision for undergraduate- and graduate-level internships and practicum experiences. Internships include clinical, laboratory, and community-based research; development of clinical quality improvement projects; and analysis of dietary options available to Children’s Hospital staff and patients.

Section faculty are actively involved in the Children’s Hospital Colorado and University of Colorado Dietetic Internship Program.

Examples of recent involvement at the national level include:   

Nutrition in Residency Education  (PDF)

Training Doctors for Prevention-Oriented Care  (PDF)

See the Section of Nutrition's Faculty Research Areas here