Building nutrition assessment and counseling skills requires hands-on practice to
maximize learning. Many creative instructors have developed strategies to incorporate
this practice-based learning in courses, including case-based learning,
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service learning,
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experiential learning,
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and learner-centered
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approaches. These types of training approach integrate basic knowledge with social
and clinical presentations, exposing students to realistic complex clinical cases:
aspects that require clinical reasoning, problem solving, and decision making. The
current study employed the service concept by using the “adopt-a-patient” approach
for students to practice nutrition assessment techniques with real-life subjects.
This content-related service learning approach combined classroom instruction, laboratory
practice, and real-life experiences to provide students with broad and practical challenges
in interactive person-centered cases, which fit the experiential learning recommended
by the Council on Future Practice of the Academy in its most recent visioning report
to prepare future successful dietetic practitioners.
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The objective of this project was to evaluate the effectiveness of the “adopt-a-patient”
approach in enhancing student learning of nutrition assessments and counseling skills.To read this article in full you will need to make a payment
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Published online: October 14, 2014
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