Is continuing medical education sufficient? Assessing the clinical nutrition knowledge of medical doctors

Provision of nutritional support (NS) can improve disease outcome and shorten length of stay. NS, often prescribed by medical doctors (MDs), requires adequate clinical nutrition (CN) expertise. Our aim was to investigate self-perceived and actual CN knowledge, among MDs in Greece.

Source: Nutrition - June 19, 2018 Category: Nutrition Authors: Maria G. Grammatikopoulou, Areti Katsouda, Kyriaki Lekka, Kyriakos Tsantekidis, Emmanouil Bouras, Eirini Kasapidou, Kalliopi-Anna Poulia, Michael Chourdakis Source Type: research