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One-a-Day Nutrition Questions to Enhance Learning and Retention of Nutrition Concepts for Medical Students

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To promote consistent thinking about nutrition, we gave the students thought-provoking, one-a-day nutrition questions throughout a 4-week gastroenterology course. The interactive and detailed feedback for each question also served as an education tool. The questions helped to increase competency in nutrition by enhancing learning and memory retention of concepts.

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  1. Department of Medicine, Gastroenterology/Liver Diseases Division, Cooper University Health, Camden, NJ, 08103, USA

    Joshua DeSipio

  2. Office of Medical Education, Cooper Medical School of Rowan University, Camden, NJ, 08103, USA

    Susan Perlis

  3. Department of Biomedical Sciences, Cooper Medical School of Rowan University, 401 S Broadway, Camden, NJ, 08103, USA

    Sangita Phadtare

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DeSipio, J., Perlis, S. & Phadtare, S. One-a-Day Nutrition Questions to Enhance Learning and Retention of Nutrition Concepts for Medical Students. Med.Sci.Educ. 28, 811–812 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40670-018-0616-4

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