MedPage Today November 8, 2025
The administration should engage dietitians to train future physicians
In August, the Trump administration announced a major initiative urging medical schools and medical-education organizations to implement “comprehensive nutrition education and training” as part of its Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) agenda. The proposal requires U.S. medical schools, residencies, and licensing boards to integrate nutrition education into their programs or risk losing federal funding.
I fully support this effort — there is never enough nutrition education. My hope is that the administration will engage registered dietitians (RDs), the true experts in the field, to help train the next generation of physicians.
For 16 years, I have been a registered dietitian at a teaching hospital in Boston, where I’ve had the privilege...
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