If you want to improve your daily practice, don’t hesitate to broaden your knowledge with this intensive training” 

A healthy and balanced diet helps to prevent diseases as well as to combat or improve the health of people who suffer from some kind of disease.  

Specialization in nutrition is the essential for a professional to be able to answer the needs of the population in terms of food and health care and prevention.  

This prestigious Postgraduate diploma deepens your knowledge in the latest techniques in nutrition with the help of professionals with extensive experience in the sector. Promote work strategies based on the practical knowledge of the new trends in nutrition and its application to adult pathologies, where nutrition plays a fundamental role in treatment. 

This program allows nutritionist to specialize in areas of particular interest such as: 

• Nutrigenetics
• Nutrigenomics
• Nutrition and Obesity
• Hospital Dietetics
• Nutritional Trends 

The syllabus covers the main current topics in Nutrition and Disease in such a way that whoever masters them will be prepared to work in this field. Therefore, it is not just another diploma in your backpack, but a real learning tool to approach the topics of the specialty in a modern, objective way and with the ability to make a judgment based on today's most cutting-edge literature. 

This Postgraduate diploma contains the most complete and up-to-date scientific program on the market" 

This Postgraduate diploma in Nutrition and Disease contains the most complete and up-to-date scientific program on the market. The most important features of the program include: 

• The graphic, schematic, and eminently practical contents with which they are created contain information that is indispensable for professional practice
• It contains exercises where the self-assessment process can be carried out to improve learning
• Algorithm-based interactive learning system for decision-making for patients with feeding problems
• All of this will be complemented by 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

Improve your knowledge through this program, where you will find the best didactic material with real clinical cases. Learn here about the latest advances in the speciality to be able to perform quality nutritional practice" 

Its teaching staff includes renowned specialists in nutrition based on clinical practice, who bring the experience of their work to this training. 

Thanks to the multimedia content developed with the latest educational technology, they will provide the Nutritionist with situated and contextual learning, i.e., a simulated environment that will provide an immersive training program to train in real situations. 

The design of this programme is based on Problem-Based Learning, by means of which the nutritionist must try to solve the different professional practice situations that arise during the course. 

For this reason, you will be assisted by an innovative, interactive video system created by renowned and experienced experts in the field of radiology with extensive teaching experience.

The Postgraduate diploma allows training in simulated environments, which provide immersive learning programmed to train in real situations"

This refresher program will provide you with a sense of confidence in your daily work, which will help you grow both personally and professionally"

The main objective of the program is the development of both theoretical and practical learning, so that the professional can master, in a practical and rigorous way, the study of Nutrition and Disease. 

The role of nutritionists is fundamental in order to assess those patients who want to improve their health”

General Objectives

• Update the nutritionist's knowledge on new trends in human nutrition, in both health and pathological situations
• Promote work strategies based on the practical knowledge of the new trends in nutrition and its application to adult pathologies, where nutrition plays a fundamental role in treatment
• Encourage the acquisition of technical skills and abilities, through a powerful audio-visual system, and the possibility of development through online simulation workshops and/or specific training
• Encourage professional stimulus through continuing education and research
• Train the professional for research into patients with nutritional problems

Specific Objectives

• Analyze the different methods for assessing nutritional status
• Interpret and integrate anthropometric, clinical, biochemical, hematological, immunological, and pharmacological data in the patient's nutritional assessment and dietary-nutritional treatment
• Early detection and evaluation of quantitative and qualitative deviations from the nutritional balance due to excess or deficiency
• Describe the composition and utilities of new foods
• Explain the different techniques and products of basic and advanced nutritional support related to patient nutrition
• Identify patients with nutritional risk or established malnutrition susceptible to specific support
• Evaluate and monitor the supervision of nutritional support
• Update knowledge of specific formulae for artificial nutrition in adults
• Identify and assess obesity and know its dietary or surgical treatment
• Identify dietary and lifestyle factors involved in the genesis and treatment of osteoporosis
• Gain up-to-date knowledge on the dietetic treatment of oral cavity pathologies in adults with special attention to sensory disorders and mucositis
• Study the interrelationship between diet and oral disease
• Identify nutritional factors involved in gastroesophageal reflux and ulcers
• Gain up-to-date knowledge of the management of patients with swallowing problems
• Understand the implications that nutrition can have in the treatment of liver diseases
• Describe the different uses of nutritional support for inflammatory diseases
• Reflect on the etiology of constipation and its relationship to diet in adults
• Gain up-to-date knowledge of dietary management procedures for adults with chronic renal failure and on dialysis
• Acquire knowledge of the most common food allergies and intolerances
• Reflect on new techniques in digestive and intestinal surgery and their impact on patient nutrition
• Gain up-to-date knowledge of small intestine management procedures
• Describe the dietary treatment for biliary and pancreatic pathologies
• Explain the main malabsorption syndromes and how they are treated
• Identify the signs and symptoms of the most prevalent colonic pathology and its nutritional treatment

Make the most of the opportunity and take the step to get up-to-date on the latest developments in Nutrition and Disease"