Specialty residency training in medical nutrition education: history and proposal for improvement.

Nutrition education among residents in training is at a critical juncture. There is a general lack of a unified curriculum, a lack of nutrition physician mentors, and a failure to properly train physicians about nutrition. In surveys, residents in training have acknowledged their minimal nutrition education. Published data and training experiences suggest the importance of creating physician mentors in nutrition who are embedded in residency training programs. The development of recurrent short-term nutrition credentialing courses and online nutrition tool kits is also thought to be important in future residency training.