nutrition. Many medical school professors believe that more time needs to be devoted to studying the role of nutrition in health and disease. What goes wrong in teaching future doctors nutrition The intensive medical education can be part of the reason for the quality of nutrition education is so poor. While relatively few medical students actually suspended out (usually only one or two in each entering class of 50-200) most medical students feel great pressure to spend all your waking hours and learn everything they can. As a result, the future doctors can not eat regular meals. They can live in vending machine snacks, coffee and Coca-Cola most of the week diet and then binge when they have a ©