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CED-80-39 1 (1980-01-02)

handle is hein.gao/gaobababl0001 and id is 1 raw text is: GAO'w United States General Accounting Office Human Resources Washington, DC 20548 Division B-196805 JANUARY 2,1980 The Honorable Patricia Roberts Harris Ilii111 The Secretary of Health, Education, l and Welfare 111184 Dear Mrs. Harris: Subject: Greater Federal Efforts Are Needed to Improve Nutrition Education in U.S. Medical Schoolsj(CED-80-39). Enclosed is a copy of testimony presented on Novem- ber 8, 1979, by the Director of our Community and Eco- nomic Development Division before the Subcommittee on Nutrition, Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, '-f and Forestry, on the status of nutrition education in U.S. medical schools. We testified that, despite its importance to health, nutrition is not taught adequately in many medical schools. OWhile current Federal spending for health programs totals about $63 billion, in fiscal years 1972-79 the Bureau of Health Manpower spent less than $3 million for nutrition education grants to 23 medical schools. In addition, no evaluations had been made of the results of 10 completed grants, nor are there plans to evaluate them or the 13 on- going grants that were funded at the end of fiscal year 1979. Tne Federal Government can and should do more to help improve the status of nutrition education in medical schools We recommend that you direct the Administrator, Health Re- sources Administration, to: - --Evaluate the results of the Bureau's nutrition education grants to gain insight into how medical schools could most effectively incorporate nutri- tion into their curricula. Also, disseminate to all medical schools available information on existing effective nutrition education programs. --Set up several 3-year demonstration projects at interested medical schools to show how nutrition curricula could be consolidated and-eaiphasized. This could be done by engaging a physician as a focal point for nutrition. This physician would (097240)

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