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Nutrition
Education Overview
The Section of Nutrition provides education at all levels of training for health care providers, including required and elective courses for medical students at the School of Medicine; lectures through the core lecture series for the pediatric clerkship and the pediatric residency program; clinical and research fellowship training; continuing education series for practicing physicians; and community nutrition rotations for RD interns from the University of Northern Colorado.
Section faculty members also provide supervision for undergraduate- and graduate-level internship experiences. Past internships have included clinical research; research experiences involving body weight regulation, exercise, fuel metabolism, trace minerals, child/familial feeding studies; and website and software development.
The University of Colorado School of Medicine is the site of one the National Institutes of Health-supported Nutrition Academic Awards (NAA), the purpose of which is to enhance nutrition training in medical practice, with a focus on the prevention of coronary heart disease, hypertension, diabetes, obesity and other chronic illnesses. Dr. Krebs is the Principal Investigator of the Colorado NAA. Please visit our Nutrition Academic Award Website for further information.
The Integrated Nutrition Education Program is a school-based prevention program that reaches limited-income minority students in targeted elementary schools. The purpose of the program is to improve children's eating behaviors, specifically to increase fruit and vegetable consumption and to increase levels of regular physical activity.
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