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University
of Texas Medical School at Houston
The Nutrition Academic
Award (NAA) is a 5-year program sponsored and funded by the
National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute of the National Institutes
of Health from April 1, 2000 to March 31, 2005. The primary
objective of the Nutrition Academic Award is to encourage the
development or enhancement of medical school curricula to increase
opportunities for students, house staff, faculty, and practicing
physicians to learn nutrition principles and clinical practice
skills with an emphasis on preventing cardiovascular disease,
obesity, diabetes, and other chronic diseases. A second objective
is to provide nutrition-training modules for dissemination to
other medical schools as well as other health care professional
schools. Ten U.S. medical schools were awarded the NAA in 1998
and include Albert Einstein, Brown, Northwestern, Tufts, University
of Alabama, University of Iowa, University of Rochester, University
of Pennsylvania, University of Texas Southwestern, and the University
of Washington. In 2000, nine schools were awarded the NAA including
Columbia, Mercer, Stanford, University of Arkansas, University
of Maryland, University of Nevada - Reno, University of Texas
- Houston, University of Vermont, and the University of Wisconsin.
The National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney
Diseases (NIDDK) funded two schools: Harvard and the University
of Colorado. Together, these 21 U.S. medical schools are collaborating
in the development of a Nutrition Curriculum Guide for Physicians
that provides learning objectives for medical students, residents,
and clinical nutrition fellows. In addition, faculty at these
schools are working together to develop educational materials
and evaluation instruments that can be used to implement a medical
nutrition education program.
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