Undergraduate Degree
The School of Medicine offers a number of modules focused on medical nutrition therapy as part of the undergraduate medical course and the Master's Degree "Applied Nutrition and Health Promotion" with 3 specializations:
1. Clinical Nutrition
2. Public Health
3. Pediatric Nutrition
Postgraduate Degree
THE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE UNDERGRADUATE PROGRAM
Modules
3rd SEMESTER
6TH SEMESTER
Nutrition, Principles of Dietary Assessment, Food Hygiene, Epidemic explosion, Food safety, Emerging Environmental microorganisms and Infections, Water Hygiene, Domestic and Industrial wastes and Pollutants, Air Pollution, Global Environmental Issues, Indoor air pollution and hygiene, Natural Disasters, Travel Medicine, Travelers’ Diarrhea, Travel Medicine: Hepatitis A and B, Industrial Hygiene, Current topics of Occupational Hygiene, Hospital Epidemiology and Infection Control.
Introduction to preventive medicine, Research designs and issues in epidemiology, Planning for health improvement, Cancer Epidemiology and prevention, Cancer by tissue of origin, Infectious disease epidemiology, Epidemiology and prevention of specific infections, Epidemiology and prevention of cardiovascular disease, Accident and injury epidemiology, Tobacco, Alcohol abuse, .Demography, Family planning programmes, contraception, Inequities in health.
10TH SEMESTER
Translation of nutrition science to clinical practice. The importance of interpersonal collaboration with nutrition professionals in medical education, energy metabolism—calculating basal energy expenditure, body composition, nutrition assessment—BMI, weight gain/loss, nutrient deficiencies, outpatient and inpatient nutrition management—medical nutrition, therapy for acute and chronic disease, critical care—enteral and parenteral nutrition. Topics include the impact of nutrient deficiencies on anemia and other diseases, role of nutrition in chronic diseases (diabetes, hypertension, osteoporosis celiac disease, obesity, etc), enteral and parenteral nutrition, eating disorders, bariatric surgery, and common diets (e.g. Mediterranean diet).
POSTGRADUATE PROGRAMME "APPLIED NUTRITION AND HEALTH PROMOTION"
Core Subjects:
- Basic Principles of Nutrition and Metabolism
- Nutritional Assessment
- Methodology Research
- Applied Biostatistics
- Advanced Statistical Analyses
- Introduction to systematic reviews and meta-analyses
Specialization:
CLINICAL NUTRITION
Subjects:
- Nutrition and prevention
- Medical/clinical nutritional therapy in pediatric patients
- Medical/clinical nutritional therapy in hospitalized patients
- Medical/clinical nutritional therapy in critically ill patients
public healtH NUTRITION
Subjects:
- Nutrition and prevention
- Basic principles of public health
- Nutrition education – health education
- Epidemiology of nutrition
pediatric nutrition
Subjects:
- Nutrition through the early and late childhood
- Nutritional support for pediatric patients at the hospital
- Nutritional support for pediatric patients in clinical practice
- Nutrition education – health education in children