The internship at the Goldring Center for Culinary Medicine provided experiences assisting students in classes, leading discussions on nutrition, helping test recipes, and doing community outreach. The intern faced challenges with time management, cultural differences, and socioeconomic issues. She learned how to connect with students without coming across as arrogant, about culinary medicine and nutrition, and improved her cooking skills. Her contributions included increasing student enrollment, assisting with classes and recipes, and teaching lessons. She hopes to continue volunteering, participate in a culinary medicine medical school rotation, and pursue dietitian and personal training certifications.

1. Goldring Center for Culinary
Medicine Internship Experience
Isabelle Sussman

2. My Position
• Goldring Center for Culinary Medicine (GCCM)
• Assisting students during class in regards to the recipes, techniques or nutritional
information
• Occasionally leading group discussions about nutrition, healthy ingredient changes to
recipes and implementation of the Mediterranean Diet at home
• Helping test recipes for future classes
• Community outreach for future students

3. Challenges I Faced and Lessons I Learned
• Time Management
• Cultural Differences
• Educational Gaps
• Socioeconomic Challenges

4. What I Learned
• How to connect with my students and teach them lessons without coming
off as arrogant or entitled
• Understanding how this organization runs and learning more about culinary
medicine and nutrition
• Better cooking skills and healthy alternatives to widely used ingredients in
recipes

5. Contributions to the Center
• Increasing outreach into the community and signing up more students for
our classes
• Helping the interns and chefs test recipes and assist in classes
• Teaching lessons and introducing the topics for class
• Volunteering with the conference in the beginning of June and helping run
classes

6. Future Involvement
• Continue volunteering at the center
• Applying for medical school at Tulane and hopefully participating in the
Culinary medicine rotation
• I have also been inspired to pursue my registered dietician license as well as
my personal training certification