Clinicians CHEF Coaching
Culinary Medicine Program:
CHEF Coaching:
Culinary Healthcare Education Fundamentals
CHEF Coaching is a two-part, evidence-based culinary coaching training program that combines hands-on culinary training with health coaching principles and telemedicine tools. Clinicians, health and well-being coaches, and chefs learn to guide patients and clients to cook healthier meals at home, often at a lower cost.
This program is for physicians, healthcare professionals, health and well-being coaches, and chefs who want to:
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Build their competencies in culinary medicine
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Deliver the evidence-based culinary coaching program
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Strengthen their own culinary skills and habits
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Lead a culinary medicine program
The Latest Research Behind CHEF Coaching
Culinary coaching was the first culinary medicine intervention shown to affect weight in a two-center randomized controlled trial. Read the research
How the Program Works
CHEF Coaching has two parts. Complete both to earn your Culinary Coaching Certificate and 15 CEUs (Wellcoaches, ACSM, NBHWC, NCHEC).
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Part I: The Basics. On-demand, start anytime. 7.5 CEUs.
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Part II: Beyond the Basics. Live, small-group sessions. 7.5 CEUs.
You can take The Basics on its own, or enroll in both parts together and work through The Basics recordings while you take Beyond the Basics.
Part I: CHEF Coaching – The Basics
On-demand · Start anytime · 7.5 CEUs
The Basics is a deep dive into culinary coaching. You'll get the latest in culinary medicine and the culinary coaching approach, along with the skills, tools, and resources to help patients adopt sustainable, nutritious home-cooking habits.
You'll learn:
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An introduction to lifestyle medicine and culinary medicine
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The nutritional science of home cooking, and why patients don't cook
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The basics of healthy cooking, and how to get patients into the kitchen
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Cooking with little time or budget
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In-office culinary education tools and delivery strategies
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How to master the culinary coaching approach
Part II: CHEF Coaching – Beyond the Basics
Live, small-group sessions · 7.5 CEUs
Beyond the Basics puts Part I into practice. In weekly skills-development sessions, you'll practice culinary coaching with peers, make staple recipes, and work toward your own culinary goals, including one hands-on culinary telemedicine class.
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Put the skills from Part I into practice through small-group learning
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Explore new culinary practices in your own kitchen
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Practice culinary coaching strategies with colleagues
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Build your competencies in prescribing nutrition through reflection with a faculty member
Who can enroll: Anyone who has completed CHEF Coaching – The Basics through Harvard Medical School, Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital, or Wellcoaches, or who enrolls in The Basics on-demand at the same time.
View the Beyond the Basics syllabus