How many contact hours of nutrition do doctors need to graduate?

Please provide a source (not just an opinion or comment) for the minimum national recommendation for contact hours needed for a doctor to graduate from med school.





I know some med schools require more, but what is the national minimum requirement?|||Hi Nick. Below is a link to the following paper in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition: "Status of nutrition education in medical schools".





http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/article鈥?/a>





Only 30% of medical schools in the U.S. require a separate nutrition course. On average, students received 23.9 contact hours of nutrition instruction during medical school (range was 2 to 70 hours). Only 40 of the 126 medical schools require the 25 hour minimum recommended by the National Academy of Sciences..





These researchers (at the School of Medicine of the Univ. of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) conclude: "the amount of nutrition education in medical schools remains inadequate."





I hope you find this info. helpful.