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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 specialty to be able to perform a quality medical practice"
This program offers the student the possibility of expanding and updating knowledge in Clinical Nutrition, using the latest educational technology. It offers a global vision of Child Nutrition while focusing on the most important and innovative aspects of feeding during the pediatric age, including the intrauterine phase to adolescence, as well as the diseases in which feeding plays a highly relevant role.
This program provides specialization in the field of Child Nutrition in areas of particular interest such as:
- Nutrigenetics
- Nutrigenomics
- Nutrition and obesity
- Hospital dietetics
- Nutritional Tendencies
This Postgraduate diploma is methodologically designed for distance learning in order to guarantee optimal supervision.
With this specialization you will have the opportunity to take a program that compile the most advanced and in-depth knowledge in the field, where a group of highly regarded professors with extensive international experience provides you with the most complete and up-to-date information on the latest advances and techniques in Pediatric Endocrinology and Nutrition.
Increase your skills in the approach to endocrinology and child nutrition care through this Postgraduate diploma”
The Postgraduate diploma in Pediatric Endocrinology and Nutrition 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
This Postgraduate diploma may be the best investment you can make in the selection of a refresher program for two reasons: in addition to updating your knowledge of Pediatric Endocrinology and Nutrition, you will obtain a Postgraduate diploma from the Spanish educational institution, TECH Global University”
Its teaching staff includes renowned specialists in nutrition based on clinical practice, who bring the experience of their work to this training.
The multimedia content developed with the latest educational technology will provide the physician with situated and contextual learning, i.e., a simulated environment that will provide immersive training programmed to train in real situations.
Problem-Based Learning underpins this program design, and the Doctor must use it to try to solve the different professional practice situations that arise throughout 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 nutrition who also have extensive teaching experience.
This Postgraduate diploma provides training in simulated environments, which includes immersive learning designed to train professionals for real situations"
It includes clinical cases to bring the program's degree as close as possible to the reality of care in medicine"
Syllabus
The structure of the contents has been designed by a team of professionals knowledgeable about the implications of training in daily medical practice, aware of the relevance of current training in Pediatric Endocrinology and Nutrition, and committed to quality teaching through new educational technologies.
The Postgraduate diploma in Pediatric Endocrinology and Nutrition contains the most complete and up-to-date scientific program on the market”
Module 1. Assessment of Nutritional Status and Diet. Practical Application
1.1. Bioenergy and Nutrition
1.1.1. Energy Needs
1.1.2. Methods of Assessing Energy Expenditure
1.2. Assessment of Nutritional Status
1.2.1. Body Composition Analysis
1.2.2. Clinical Diagnosis. Symptoms and Signs
1.2.3. Biochemical, Hematological and Immunological Methods
1.3. Intake Assessment
1.3.1. Methods for Analyzing Food and Nutrient Intake
1.3.2. Direct and Indirect Methods
1.4. Update on Nutritional Requirements and Recommended Intakes
1.5. Nutrition in a Healthy Adult. Objectives and Guidelines. Mediterranean Diet.
1.6. Nutrition in Menopause
1.7. Nutrition in the Elderly
Module 2. Infant Malnutrition
2.1. Childhood Malnutrition and Undernutrition
2.1.1. Psychosocial Aspects
2.1.2. Pediatric Assessment
2.1.3. Treatment and Monitoring
2.2. Nutritional Anemias
2.2.1. Other Nutritional Anemias in Childhood
2.3. Vitamin and Trace Element Deficiencies
2.3.1. Vitamins
2.3.2. Trace Elements
2.3.3. Detection and Treatment
2.4. Fats in Infant Diets
2.4.1. Essential Fatty Acids
2.5. Childhood Obesity
2.5.1. Prevention
2.5.2. Impact of Childhood Obesity
2.5.3. Nutritional Treatment
Module 3. Childhood Nutrition and Pathologies
3.1. Nutrition of Children with Oral Pathologies
3.2. Nutrition in Acute Diarrhea Situation
3.3. Nutrition of Infants and Children with Gastroesophageal Reflux
3.4. Nutrition in Children with Celiac Disease
3.5. Nutrition in Children with Inflammatory Bowel Disease
3.6. Nutrition in Children with Digestive Malabsorption Syndrome
3.7. Nutrition in Children with Constipation
3.8. Nutrition in Children with Liver Disease
3.9. Feeding Difficulties and Disorders in Children
3.9.1. Physiological Aspects
3.9.2. Psychological Aspects
3.10. Eating Disorders
3.10.1. Anorexia
3.10.2. Bulimia
3.10.3. Others
3.11. Inborn Errors of Metabolism
3.11.1. Principles for Dietary Treatment
3.12. Nutrition in Dyslipidemias
3.13. Nutrition in Diabetic Children
3.14. Nutrition in Autistic Children
3.15. Nutrition in Children with Cancer
3.16. Nutrition in Children with Chronic Pulmonary Pathology
3.17. Nutrition in Children with Nephropathy
3.18. Nutrition in Children with Food Allergies and/or Intolerances
3.19. Childhood and Bone Pathology Nutrition
A unique, key and decisive training experience to boost your professional development"
Postgraduate Diploma in Pediatric Endocrinology and Nutrition
One of the main axes in the pediatric branch is the supervision of the growth and development of patients, this is achieved through regular monitoring of all the infant's habits (feeding, physical activities), in order to evidence any abnormality in time. This requires professionals to renew their knowledge in order to provide users with the latest health care. For this reason, at TECH Global University we designed together with the best specialists, a course of Postgraduate Diploma in Pediatric Endocrinology and Nutrition; focused on support nutrition to avoid pathologies such as diabetes, thyroid, adrenal and pituitary problems, among others. The program is taught in a 100% online mode, its structure was designed using new educational technologies and the curriculum includes an extensive repertoire focused on the fundamental concepts of the area. Through dynamic lessons supported by multimedia material, you will specialize in key aspects such as nutrigenetics/nutrigenomics, hospital dietetics and nutritional trends, followed by methods for assessing energy expenditure and food support. In this way, you will be able to identify possible cases of child malnutrition or endocrinological disorders.
Specialize in nutrition and endocrinology in children
The Postgraduate Diploma offered by the TECH School of Medicine is methodologically designed for you to obtain immersive learning completely remotely. You will reinforce your training with practical exercises in simulated environments, which will allow you to cope with solvency possible hospital situations that arise. Throughout the six months of the program, you will learn the global vision of nutrition in the pediatric age (from the intrauterine phase to adolescence), as well as the diseases in the analysis of anthropometric, biochemical, hematological, immunological and pharmacological data in the dietary-nutritional assessment. Due to this, you will manage to identify minors with susceptible nutritional risks or imbalances that need specific support; in addition, you will obtain the necessary competencies to treat pathologies present in this age group such as dyslipidemias, diabetes, nephropathy, chronic lung disease and allergy and/or food intolerance.