New doctors will now be required to pass medical licensing exams that require a strong knowledge of nutrition-based medicine because of a Trump administration push to reform nutrition education in medical schools and nursing programs. The Department of Health and Human Services and the Department of Education announced on Monday that several medical education, testing, accreditation, and certification organizations that license physicians and nurses in the United States have partnered with the Trump administration to require new nutrition-based content at each of the steps involved in obtaining a medical license.HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said during a press event about the change that the new content additions to post-education licensing exams will “put nutrition back where it belongs, at the center of medical education.”
“We’re training future physicians to address the root causes of diseases, not simply manage their consequences,” Kennedy said. “And we’re building a medical system that gives doctors better tools, patients better information, and families a better chance to live long and healthy lives.”
Kennedy said nutrition education will now account for roughly 15% of the content across the three-step medical exam sequencing in the U.S., assessing nutrition and its clinical application.
