TABLE 2.
Example of nutrition competencies: family medicine1
| Nutrition competency | ACGME2 competency |
| At the completion of residency training, a family medicine resident should | |
| Understand general principles of nutrition including the role of nutrition in disease prevention and management and translate general principles into a nutrition care plan | Patient care |
| Medical knowledge | |
| Be able to perform a comprehensive nutritional assessment | Patient care |
| • Medical, social, and diet histories | Medical knowledge |
| • Physical examination | |
| • Anthropometric measurements | |
| • Laboratory tests | |
| Be able to counsel patients regarding nutritional recommendations in a culturally sensitive manner | Professionalism |
| Interpersonal and communication skills | |
| Use an evidence-based approach to assess the patient's nutritional status and determine the effectiveness of interventions | Practice-based learning |
| Improvement | |
| Recognize patients who are at high risk of nutrition-related complications and refer them to nutrition consultants who can provide counseling and education | Patient care |
| Medical knowledge | |
| Systems-based practice | |
| Recognize his or her own nutritional biases and make attempts to compensate for possible effects on patient care | Professionalism |
1
Source: reference 43.
2
ACGME, Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education.