The Third Food as Medicine Conference

Date: May 19, 2018 | Venue: Poland

Summary of Event

The 3rd edition of the conference was held on May 19, 2018. Organized by International Federation of Medical Students’ Associations IFMSA-Poland Warsaw and Lifestyle Medicine Interest Group based at Medical University of Warsaw addressing primarily future and graduate doctors. The conference highlights the importance of nutrition education within this group of health professionals filling up the gap in medical education curricula.
The event is open also to other medical degrees such as dietetics, public health, physiotherapy or dentistry.

The Conference consists of two parts: expert lectures focusing on the role of nutrition in prevention and treatment of different diseases and “Evidence-Based Lifestyle Medicine” session prepared by LMIG students being a series of presentations summarising the most recent and meaningful research in the LM field.