Optional Workshops

This is the workshop schedule from the 2024 course. 

2025 workshop schedule not yet available.

 

 

 

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apple and stethoscopeCulinary Health Education Fundamentals (CHEF) Coaching—The Basics 

Thursday, June 6, 2024
8:30 am - 5:10 pm 
Live Streaming

8:30 am
Program and Resources Overview

Rani Polak, MD, Chef, MBA and Jane Barg, NBC-HWC, Chef

9:00 am
Introduction to Culinary Coaching: Improving Nutrition through Culinary Training Combined with Coaching Principles

Rani Polak, MD, Chef, MBA

9:30 am
The Nutritional Science of Home Cooking: What and How Should My Patient Cook?*

Rani Polak, MD, Chef, MBA

10:00 am
Why Doesn’t My Patient Cook? Recognizing and Making It Easier for Patients to Address the Reasons They Don’t Embrace Healthier Cooking Practices

Jane Barg, NBC-HWC, Chef

10:35 am
Practice! Practice Using Open-Ended Questions

Rani Polak, MD, Chef, MBA and Shirly (Shalu) Ramchandani, MD

11:15 am
Break
11:30 am
The Basics for Healthy Cooking: Stocking a Pantry, Finding Healthy Recipes, Making Shopping Lists, and Setting Up Your Kitchen for Success*

Jane Barg, NBC-HWC, Chef

12:10 pm
Implementing Culinary Coaching: Early Adopters' Experiences

Marni Chanoff, MD

12:25 pm
Cooking with Little Time or Budget: Kitchen Economies and Efficiencies to Make Healthier Kitchens More Accessible to More Patients*

Jane Barg, NBC-HWC, Chef

12:55 pm
Break
1:55 pm
Patient Outcomes

Rani Polak, MD, Chef, MBA

2:10 pm
Getting Patients (Even Reluctant or Unskilled Cooks) into the Kitchen: Motivational Interviewing and Coaching to Produce Healthier Kitchen Behaviors

Jane Barg, NBC-HWC, Chef

2:40 pm
Practice! Practice Tools to Integrate Culinary Discussions and Short-Term Culinary Goals into Medical Encounters

Jane Barg, NBC-HWC, Chef and Shirly (Shalu) Ramchandani, MD

3:25 pm
Implementing Culinary Coaching: Early Adopters' Experiences

Lizzie Luchsinger

3:40 pm
Break
3:55 pm
In-Office Culinary Education Tools and Delivery Strategies: Group Lectures, Individual Coaching, Hands-On Instruction, and Reimbursement Strategies

Rani Polak, MD, Chef, MBA

4:30 pm
Mastering Culinary Health Education Fundamentals (CHEF) Coaching: How to Quickly and Effectively Help Patients Set and Achieve Realistic Culinary Goals

Rani Polak, MD, Chef, MBA

5:10 pm
Pre-Course Adjourns

*Culinary talks that also include recipes, introduction of new cooking techniques, and several tips to improve your home cooking

Upon completion of this one-day CHEF Coaching Basics program and the CHEF Coaching—Beyond the Basics distance-learning program (shown below), graduates receive a Certificate of Completion in Culinary Coaching from the Institute of Lifestyle Medicine and Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital.

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Culinary Health Education Fundamentals (CHEF) Coaching—Beyond the Basics 

Five 90-minute, weekly, distance-learning sessions (several options available in July/August 2024, January/February 2025, April/May 2025)

  • Hone the efficacy of your culinary coaching with patients and their families
  • Practice getting feedback and refine your culinary coaching techniques
  • Log in from your kitchen and cook online with a chef
  • Implement telemedicine, culinary training, and health coaching into your practice

To view the syllabus, click here.

Click here for program details, dates, and registration. (Separate registration required. Please note: these sessions will not be recorded.) 

 

Upon completion of the one-day CHEF Coaching Basics program and the CHEF Coaching—Beyond the Basics distance-learning program, graduates receive a Certificate of Completion in Culinary Coaching from the Institute of Lifestyle Medicine and Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital.