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Event | Branch | Description | Participants |
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SNAP challenge | Advocacy | Students challenged to limit their grocery spending to $33/wk, the average MA SNAP benefit for an individual | 17 medical students since 2012 |
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Test Kitchen | Advocacy | Familiarizing medical students with nutrition resources and skills through attending cost-conscious healthy cooking demos | 24 medical students since 2012 |
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Nutrition for Life (NFL) Clinic observation | Clinical | Providing medical students with early exposure to outpatient specialty multidisciplinary pediatric weight management | Approximately 30 medical students since 2010 |
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BMSCoN, Nutrition Lecture Series | Community outreach | Creating a city-wide network of nutrition oriented medical students to increase networking and nutrition education resources | 4 BUSM students active in leadership, attendance of ~20 BUSM students per lecture. 7 other Boston medical students from Tufts and Harvard also active in group leadership |
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Wellness fair for Spanish speaking elders | Community outreach | Provided nutrition counseling, education materials, and healthy snack demonstration for wellness fair attendees | 4 Spanish speaking SNAAC members assisted in this collaborative project |
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Nutrition module, 1st and 2nd years | Education | Incorporated 2 mandatory online modules into the first and second year curriculums that focus on taking a diet history and evaluating popular diet trends, with the aim of increasing positive attitudes to physician lifestyle counseling | Mandatory participation of BUSM class of approximately 175 students |
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Nutrition module, 4th year | Education | Aimed at students entering all specialties, this will combine online instruction with in-class practice of basic nutrition and behavioral health counseling | Mandatory for each BUSM 4th year class, approximately 175 students |
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Orientation bus tour | Education | To introduce first year medical students to the food and fitness environment of Boston neighborhoods during the orientation bus tour | 4 SNAAC members participated in the orientation, which was attended by 175 1st year BUSM students at the start of medical school |
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DI/MS match | Events | Pairing dietetic interns and medical students to share knowledge and build interdisciplinary approaches to healthy lifestyle counseling | 57 medical students and 57 dietetic interns since 2010 |
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Walk for hunger | Events | Raising awareness of food insecurity by participating in the Boston-wide event | 10 students |
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Lunch talks | Events | Providing educational, nutrition-focused talks that will meet a wide range of interests in the medical student body | Attendance of around 25–50 medical students per lecture; ~4 lectures per academic year |
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