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  “Wait—Pediatricians Still Aren’t Required to Learn Nutrition?”

  Posted by IMA-HelenT

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  on June 19, 2025 at 12:33 am EDT

  One of our wonderful forum members posed his question in the public forum yesterday.

  I was just reading the Harvard publication “Doctoring Our Diet II” and this line jumped out at me like a bright red food dye label:

  “…in February 2024, almost a year after the convening of the Summit on Medical Education in Nutrition… ACGME published an update to the program requirements for GME in Pediatrics and these updated requirements still do not include any nutrition competencies.”

  Let that sink in:

  🚨 Doctors caring for children during a nationwide childhood obesity epidemic are still not required to learn anything about nutrition.

  This isn’t from fringe media—this is from Harvard.

  Here’s the full report if you’re brave enough to read it over your kale smoothie:

  https://chlpi.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Doctoring-Our-Diet-II_FINAL_6.10.24.pdf

  💬 Let’s Discuss:

  Have you ever had a pediatrician give truly bad food advice?

  Should nutrition training be mandatory in med school?

  And why is this still not a priority?

  IMA-HelenT

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