The higher specialization in sports nutrition will give pharmacists the opportunity to offer users the most appropriate dietary advice for their conditions and exercise"

Pharmacists are constantly consulted on different matters throughout each working day, as citizens find in them personalized, professional and effective advice that helps them to improve their health. In addition, in recent years, the number of people who decide to include physical exercise in their routines is growing, largely due to the boom in the cult of the body and beauty. This has caused that, more and more, pharmacists are also seeking advice in this regard, since sports and nutrition go hand in hand, but must be carried out in a manner appropriate to the conditions of the people. For this reason, professionals in this sector are in search of high-quality training programs, where they can find the most relevant information to help them improve their knowledge and, above all, to be able to train themselves to offer the care demanded by athletes.  

TECH, taking into account the academic resource needs of pharmacists, has created this advanced master’s degree, where they will find all the necessary material to expand their knowledge in a branch that is more demanded every day, and that will be essential to offer nutritional advice more adapted to the conditions of each user and the exercise they practice. In this way, an adequate diet can help to recover energy expenditure and, therefore, the diet must be controlled by a specialist. 

Specifically, this program's syllabus provides a global vision of sports nutrition, while focusing on the most important and innovative aspects: Invisible training or proper diet for athletes, and nutrition before, during and after exercise. In addition, it includes information related to professionals with different personal situations and different sports activities, specifying in each case the best dietary recommendations, so that the pharmacists have a complete knowledge that allows them to adapt to each user during the development of their daily practice. 

In short, this program will be essential for all pharmacists who wish to expand their training in this field in a simple way, by providing a multitude of teaching resources with which to consolidate their knowledge and, above all, to achieve a in depth and complete learning in an area that will make a difference in their daily practice. And this superior specialization will be achieved with an intensive program that is taught in a fully online format, which will help students to better organize their study time and the rest of their daily obligations, avoiding any possible transfer to an academic center. In this way, it will be the students themselves who determine where and when to study.  

Nutritional advice is essential in sports, as proper nutrition can help improve physical performance"

This advanced master’s degree in Comprehensive Sports Nutrition contains the most complete and up-to-date academic program on the market. The most important features of the program include: 

• The latest technology in online teaching software  
• A highly visual teaching system, supported by graphic and schematic contents that are easy to assimilate and understand
• Practical cases presented by practising experts
• State-of-the-art interactive video systems
• Teaching supported by remote training
• Continuous updating and retraining systems
• Autonomous learning: Full compatibility with other occupations
• Practical exercises for self-evaluation and learning verification
• Support groups and educational synergies: questions to the expert, debate and knowledge forums
• Communication with the teacher and individual reflection work
• Content that is accessible from any, fixed or portable device with an Internet connection
• Complementary resource banks that are permanently available

Pharmacists with extensive training in sports nutrition will be better able to provide more personalized counseling"

The teaching staff for this program is composed of practicing professionals. This way, TECH can fulfill the objective of academic updating that it has set for itself. A multidisciplinary staff of experienced professionals from a variety of environments, who will develop theoretical knowledge in an efficient manner, but above all, will put at the service of the students’ practical knowledge derived from their own experience.   

This command of the subject is complemented by the effectiveness of the methodological design of this advanced master’s degree. As such, it was developed by a multidisciplinary team of e-learning experts and integrates the latest advances in educational technology, allowing students to study with a range of convenient and versatile multimedia tools that will give them the operational skills they need for their training.   

The design of this program is based on Problem-Based Learning, an approach that conceives learning as a highly practical process. To achieve this remotely, TECH will use telepractice. With the help of an innovative interactive video system and Learning from an Expert, students will be able to acquire the knowledge as if they were facing the scenario they are currently learning. A concept that will allow students to integrate and memorize what they have learnt in a more realistic and permanent way.  

By enrolling in this advanced master’s degree, you will have access to a multitude of didactic resources that will be fundamental for your learning"

Study with the most innovative didactic methodology in the current academic panorama"

The main objective of this TECH advanced master’s degree is to provide pharmacists with the most relevant information on sports nutrition that will be fundamental for their professional development. Thus, upon completion of this program, the student will be better able to attend, in a totally personalized way, to those users who come to pharmacies in search of professional advice to help them follow appropriate diets adapted to their physical conditions and nutritional needs.  

Meet your academic goals in sports nutrition and be more effective in your daily practice”

General Objectives

• Update the professional's knowledge of new trends in human nutrition
• Promote work strategies based on the practical knowledge of the new trends in nutrition and their application to athletes 
• Encourage the acquisition of technical skills and abilities, through a powerful audiovisual system, and the possibility of development through online simulation workshops and/or specific training
• Encourage professional stimulation through continuous education and research
• Train the professional for research into patients with nutritional problems
• Handle advanced knowledge on nutritional planning in professional and non-professional athletes for the healthy performance of physical exercise
• Manage advanced knowledge on nutritional planning in professional athletes of various fields in order to achieve maximum sports performance
• Learn advanced knowledge about nutritional planning in professional athletes from team sports to achieve the highest sports performance
• Manage and consolidate the initiative and entrepreneurial spirit needed to launch projects related to nutrition in physical activity and sport
• Know how to incorporate the different scientific advances into one' s own professional field
• Ability to work in a multidisciplinary environment
• Advanced understanding of the context in which their area of expertise is being developed
• Manage advanced skills in the detection of possible signs of nutritional changes associated with sports activities
• Manage the necessary skills through the teaching-learning process that will allow them to continue training and learning in the field of sports nutrition, both through the contacts established with professors and professionals in the program, as well as on their own 
• Specialize in the structure of muscle tissue and its role in sports
• Know the energetic and nutritional needs of athletes in different pathophysiological situations
• Specialize in the energetic and nutritional needs of athletes in the different situations specific to age and gender
• Become a specialist in the dietary strategies for the prevention and treatment of injured athletes
• Specialize in the energetic and nutritional needs of child athletes
• Specialize in the energetic and nutritional needs of Paralympic athletes

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 the athlete’s nutrition 
• Explain the correct use of ergogenic aids
• Explain the current anti-doping regulations
• Identify psychological disorders related to the practice of sport and nutrition
• Gain an in-depth understanding of the structure of skeletal muscle
• Understand in depth the functioning of skeletal muscle
• Deepen understanding of the most important changes that occur in athletes
• Delve into the mechanisms of energy production based on the type of exercise performed
• Further understanding of the interaction between the different energy systems that make up the muscle energy metabolism
• Interpretation of biochemical factors to detect nutritional deficits or overtraining states
• Interpretation of the different types of body composition in order to optimize the appropriate weight and fat percentage for the sport being practised
• Monitoring of the athlete throughout the season
• Planning of seasonal schedules according to individual requirements
• Deepen understanding of the most important characteristics of the principal watersports
• Understand the demands and requirements associated with sports activities in aquatic environments
• Distinguish between the nutritional needs of different watersports
• Differentiate between the main performance limiting factors caused by climate
• Develop an acclimatization plan appropriate to the situation given
• Deepen understanding of the physiological changes caused by high altitude
• Establish the correct individual hydration guidelines according to the climate
• Differentiate between the different types of vegetarian athletes
• Gain an in-depth understanding of the main mistakes made
• Treat the notable nutritional deficiencies of sportsmen and sportswomen 
• Manage skills to provide the athlete with the most effective tools to combine foods
• Establish the physiological and biochemical mechanism of diabetes both at rest and during exercise
• Deepen the understanding of how the different insulins or medications used by diabetics work
• Assess the nutritional requirements for people with diabetes both in their daily life and in exercise, to improve their health
• Deepen the knowledge necessary to plan nutrition for athletes of different disciplines with diabetes, in order to improve their health and performance
• Establish the current state of evidence on Performance Enhancing Drugs in diabetics
• Deepen understanding of the differences between the different categories of para-athletes and their physiological-metabolic limitations
• Determine the nutritional requirements of the different para-sportsmen in order to establish a specific nutritional plan
• Further the knowledge necessary to establish interactions between the ingestion of pharmaceuticals in these athletes and nutrients, to avoid nutrient deficits
• Understand the body composition of para-athletes in different sport categories
• Apply current scientific evidence on nutritional performance enhancing drugs
• Establish the different characteristics and needs within sports by weight category
• Understand in depth the different nutritional strategies for preparing the athlete for competition
• Optimize the improvement of body composition through nutritional approach
• 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
• Determine the different phases of the injury
• Help in the prevention of injuries
• Improve the prognosis of the injury
• Establish a nutritional strategy according to the new nutritional requirements that appear during the injury period

A high-level program for professionals seeking excellence”