The postgraduate diploma allows you to train in simulated environments that provide immersive learning programmed to train for real situations” 

Nowadays, it is essential for doctors to have a solid foundation in nutrition and to be constantly kept up to date so that they can give the correct advice and, when necessary, refer their patients. With this intensive training you will gain the knowledge and skills needed to make the dietary changes that will truly have a positive impact on athletes, depending on each clinical situation at hand. 

Elite sports and amateur sports practice can take place in very different situations, conditioning both the physiological conditions and the nutritional objective during sports practice. Athletes competing in Aquatic Sports face the constant challenge of arduous training and competition schedules in difficult and changing environmental conditions. This program was created with the aim of training physicians as specialists within a multidisciplinary group to maximize sports performance and proper recovery of athletes who perform physical activities in the water. 

Within this program you can find a teaching staff of the highest level, trained by professionals closely related to sports nutrition, outstanding in their field and leading lines of research and field work, as well as recognized specialists from reference societies and prestigious universities.  

As it is a online Postgraduate Diploma, the student is not constrained by fixed timetables or the need to move to another physical location, but can access the contents at any time of the day, balancing their professional or personal life with their academic life.

Learn from the best professionals and become a successful professional yourself” 

This postgraduate diploma in Nutrition in Aquatic Sports contains the most complete and up-to-date scientific program on the market. The most important features include: 

• The graphic, schematic and practical contents of the course are designed to provide all the essential information required for professional practice
• It contains exercises where the self-assessment process can be carried out to improve learning
• An algorithm-based interactive learning system, designed for decision-making for patients with nutritional problems
• Theoretical lessons, questions to the expert, debate forums on controversial topics, and individual reflection assignments
• Content that is accessible from any fixed or portable device with an Internet connection

Learn the most suitable diets for each type of athlete and you will be able to give more personalized advice” 

Its teaching staff includes professionals belonging to the field of nutrition, who contribute their work experience to this program, as well as renowned specialists from leading societies and prestigious universities. 

Its multimedia content, developed with the latest educational technology, will allow the professional a situated and contextual learning, that is, a simulated environment that will provide an immersive learning programmed to prepare for real situations. 

This program is designed around Problem-Based Learning, whereby the professional must try to solve the different professional practice situations that arise throughout the Postgraduate Diploma. The professional will be assisted by an innovative interactive video system created by renowned and experienced experts in sports nutrition.  

Food and sport must go hand in hand, as it is essential that athletes follow a proper diet to help them improve their performance"

This 100% online Postgraduate Postgraduate Diploma will allow you to balance your studies with your professional work while expanding your knowledge in this field"

The main objective of the program is the development of theoretical and practical learning, so that the medical professional can master in a practical and rigorous way the study of sports nutrition in special populations. 

This refresher program will generate a sense of security in the performance of your daily praxis, which will help you grow personally and professionally" 

General Objectives

• Manage advanced knowledge on nutritional planning in professional and non-professional athletes in professional and non-professional athletes for the healthy performance of physical exercise
• Manage advanced knowledge on nutritional planning in professional athletes of different disciplines to achieve maximum sports performance
• Manage advanced knowledge on nutritional planning in professional athletes of team disciplines to achieve maximum sports performance
• Manage and consolidate the initiative and entrepreneurial spirit to implement projects related to nutrition in physical activity and sport
• Know how to incorporate the different scientific advances into one' s own professional field
• Working in a multidisciplinary environment
• Manage and consolidate initiative and entrepreneurship to start up projects related to nutrition in physical activity 
• Manage advanced skills to detect possible signs of nutritional alteration associated with sports practice
• Manage the necessary skills through the teaching-learning process that will allow them to continue training and learning in the field of nutrition in sport, both through the contacts established with teachers and
• professionals of this training in the field of nutrition in sport both through contacts established with teachers and professionals of this training as well as in an autonomous way
• Specialize in the structure of muscle tissue and its implication in sport 
• Know the energy and nutritional needs of athletes in different pathophysiological situations
• Specialize in the energy and nutritional needs of athletes in different age and gender specific situations
• Specialize in dietary strategies for the prevention and treatment of the injured athlete
• Specialize in the energy and nutritional needs of children athletes
• Specialize in the energy and nutritional needs of paralympic athletes

Specific Objectives

Module 1. Watersports 

• Delve into the most important characteristics of the main water sports
  
• Understand the demands and requirements associated with sports activities in aquatic environments
  
• Distinguish between the nutritional needs of different watersports
  

Module 2. Sports by Weight Category 

• Establish the different characteristics and needs within sports by weight category
  
• Understand in depth the nutritional strategies in the preparation of the athlete for competition 
  
• Optimize the improvement of body composition through nutritional approach
  

Module 3. Different Stages or Specific Population Groups 

• Explain the specific physiological characteristics to be taken into account in the nutritional approach of different groups
  
• Understand, in depth, the external and internal factors that influence the nutritional approach to these groups
  
  

You will have access to a library of multimedia resources 7 days a week, 24 hours a day"