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Interprofessional Education to Create and Sustain High-Performance Teams to Support Our Transforming Health Care System and Future Educational Model: How Nutrition and Dietetics Can “Weigh-in”
Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics
Vol. 117Issue 12p1871–1876Published online: December 20, 2016
- Anne M. Davis
- Sandra G. Affenito
Cited in Scopus: 3
Empirical data, industry trends, and the changing health care and business environments point to the need to reexamine the future education of nutrition and dietetics practitioners.^1-6 To better address the growth of nutrition-related management of chronic disease and disease prevention in the community while safeguarding the public, health care teams with nutrition and dietetics practitioners are expected to increase.⁵ Enhanced delivery of nutrition service is supported by results of a comprehensive Accreditation Council for Education in Nutrition and Dietetics (ACEND) environmental scan and key stakeholders’ assessment⁷ and are corroborated by the Institute of Medicine’s recommendations from the Health Professions Summit.