Objectives

To know firsthand everything that surrounds diet therapy.

To know how a dietetic intervention is performed according to each pathology.

To study the physiological changes that occur in certain pathologies and their impact on nutritional status.

Content

Methodology

Entre el material entregado en este curso se adjunta un documento llamado Guía del Alumno dónde aparece un horario de tutorías telefónicas y una dirección de e-mail dónde podrá enviar sus consultas, dudas y ejercicios. Además recibirá los materiales didácticos que incluye el curso para poder consultarlos en cualquier momento y conservarlos una vez finalizado el mismo.La metodología a seguir es ir avanzando a lo largo del itinerario de aprendizaje online, que cuenta con una serie de temas y ejercicios. Para su evaluación, el alumno/a deberá completar todos los ejercicios propuestos en el curso. La titulación será remitida al alumno/a por correo una vez se haya comprobado que ha completado el itinerario de aprendizaje satisfactoriamente.

What does it prepare you for?

With this course in Diet Therapy Update you will have the opportunity to learn and adopt the necessary skills to develop and / or supervise the food received by people in different physiological and pathological states, thus providing specific dietary recommendations to monitor an improvement in the state of health and nutrition as prevention of complications associated with malnutrition or malnutrition.

Who is it aimed at?

This course is especially aimed at nurses/physiotherapists/dieticians, nutritionists, although it is a degree within the University's own teachings that does not qualify for professional practice, so that according to Article 37.7 of Royal Decree 822/2021, of September 28, which establishes the organization of university education and the procedure for quality assurance for the degrees included within the University's own teachings that do not require a previous university degree for access to them, the purpose of these courses is the expansion and updating of knowledge, competences and training or professional skills that contribute to a better labor insertion of citizens without a university degree, so it will be open to any person without a university degree in health access who is interested in doing it.

Career opportunities

The professional opportunities of this course in Diet Therapy Update are those of health professional in specialized centers of health care to the patient: Dietetics, Nutrition, Pharmacies, dietetic consultations, health centers, hospital. Also for professionals working in nursing homes or working with dependent people in social institutions.