en Medical Education Medical Education Original Research Original Research <strong>Background: </strong>Training needs assessment is the process of recognizing educational needs. This study aimed to apply a community-based nutrition education needs assessment to revise the nutrition course plan in the curriculum of the doctorate of medicine and that of the baccalaureate of nursing.<br> &nbsp;&nbsp; <strong>Methods:</strong> The study was designed in 2 phases: (1) nutritional needs assessment; (2) community-based revision of nutrition course plan. In the first phase, 13 nutrition professionals working in the region set out 5 priorities of nutrition-related health problems in the community by a training need assessment based on a survey and scoring system. Then, an expert panel determined the priorities of behavioral and nonbehavioral causes of the nutrition-related health problems by the nominal group technique (NGT). The results of the first phase were used to review the topics of nutrition course plans up to 20%.<br> &nbsp;&nbsp; <strong>Results:</strong> The priorities identified in Abadan, Khorramshahr, and Shadegan were obesity and type 2 diabetes mellitus in adults as well as anemia in pregnant women, respectively. Also, wrong eating habits and insufficient nutrition knowledge were among the most important behavioral causes of nutrition-related health problems in the target community. These results were applied to a community-based review of nutrition course plans for medical and nursing students.<br> &nbsp;&nbsp; <strong>Conclusion:</strong> The use of nutritional needs assessment approaches by a survey and nominal group technique with a group of professionals provided an opportunity for a community-based review of the nutrition course plan for medical and nursing students as a first phase in the development of a community-based nutrition course plane.<br> &nbsp; Community, Course Plan, Educational Content, Nutrition-Related Health Problems 616 624 http://mjiri.iums.ac.ir/browse.php?a_code=A-10-6170-1&slc_lang=en&sid=1 Sahar Golabi s.golabi@abadanums.ac.ir 200319475328460063135 200319475328460063135 No Abadan Faculty of Medical Sciences, Abadan, Iran Mitra Amini mitraamini51@yahoo.com 200319475328460063136 200319475328460063136 No Clinical Education Research Center, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran Atefeh Zahedi atefe.zahedi@gmail.com 200319475328460063137 200319475328460063137 No Asadabad School of Medical Sciences, Asadabad, Iran Maryam Adelipour adelimaryam@rocketmail.com 200319475328460063138 200319475328460063138 No Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Medicine, Ahvaz Jundishapur University of Medical Sciences, Ahvaz, Iran Zahra Shamekhi z_shamekhi2007@yahoo.com 200319475328460063139 200319475328460063139 No Sepidan Bagherololoom Higher Education college, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran Leila Fakharzadeh fakharzadehl@yahoo.com 200319475328460063140 200319475328460063140 No Abadan Faculty of Medical Sciences, Abadan, Iran Samaneh Mansouri samanemansouri453@gmail.com 200319475328460063141 200319475328460063141 No Abadan Faculty of Medical Sciences, Abadan, Iran Mahshid Naghashpour m.naghashpour@abadanums.ac.ir 200319475328460063142 200319475328460063142 Yes Abadan Faculty of Medical Sciences, Abadan, Iran