Acquire the necessary skills and competencies to work in the area of Clinical Nutrition with a high training intensity TECH professional master’s degree"

The study of nutrition and metabolism in people has become more important considering that food helps to maintain good health. In this sense, clinical nutrition has developed a curative approach by trying to provide better nutrition taking into account people's ailments and, on the other hand, it maintains a preventive approach by providing the necessary tools to avoid the development of certain diseases. 

In this sense, nutritionists focused on the clinical area are part of a multidisciplinary team that possesses scientific knowledge in their area of competence, with skills that allow them to apply efficient nutritional care to their patients. Consequently, they intervene in dietary treatment taking into account physiological and/or pathological needs, as well as dietary habits, socioeconomic, religious and cultural conditions to prevent and treat diseases. 

The TECH professional master’s degree offers the student the possibility of deepening and updating knowledge, using the latest educational technology. It provides a global vision of Clinical Nutrition while focusing on the most important and innovative aspects of adult nutrition, with an update on the nutritional therapy of the most prevalent pathologies; as well as pediatric nutrition including from the intrauterine phase to adolescence, and the diseases in which nutrition plays a highly relevant role.

This program provides specialization in the field of Clinical Nutrition in areas of particular interest such as: 

• Nutrigenetics and Nutrigenomics
• Nutrition and obesity
• Sports nutrition
• Nutrition in chronic diseases
• Hospital dietetics
• Food allergies

The syllabus covers the main current topics in Clinical Nutrition 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.

You will be trained by professionals with extensive experience in Clinical Nutrition, who will guide you throughout the learning process"

This professional master’s degree in Clinical Nutrition contains the most complete and up-to-date scientific program on the market. The most important features of the program include:

• More than 100 clinical cases presented by experts in nutrition. 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
• Clinical practice guidelines on the different pathologies related to nutrition
• All 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

A training created and directed by expert professionals in Clinical Nutrition that make this TECH professional master’s degree a unique opportunity for professional growth"

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 program 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 purpose, the Nutritionist will be assisted by an innovative interactive video system created by renowned and experienced experts in the field of nutrition with extensive teaching experience.

With this TECH professional master’s degree you will be able to combine high intensity training with your personal and professional life, achieving your goals in a simple and real way"

You will be able to complete the TECH professional master’s degree 100% online, adapting it to your needs and making it easier for you to take it while you carry out your full-time healthcare activity"

This TECH professional master’s degree is oriented towards effectively updating the Nutritionist's knowledge of Clinical Nutrition, in order to provide quality care based on the latest scientific evidence that guarantees patient safety.

The TECH professional master’s degree in Clinical Nutrition provide you with the essential personal and professional skills to perform an adequate role in any professional situation in this field of intervention"

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 child and adult pathologies, where nutrition plays a fundamental role in treatment
• 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 stimulus through continuing education and research

Specific Objectives

• Review the basics of a balanced diet in the different stages of the life cycle as well as in exercise
• Assess and calculate nutritional requirements in health and disease at any stage of the life cycle
• Review the new dietary guidelines, nutritional objectives, and recommended dietary allowances (RDA)
• Manage food databases and composition tables
• Acquire skills in reading and understanding new food labeling methods
• Update the drug-nutrient interaction and its implication in the patient's treatment
• Identify the relationship between nutrition and immune status
• Update knowledge in nutrigenetics and nutrigenomics
• Incorporate the possibilities of phytotherapy as an adjuvant treatment in clinical practice
• Review the psychological bases and biopsychosocial factors that affect human eating behavior
• 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
• Predict patients' nutritional risk
• Manage the different types of nutritional surveys to assess food intake
• Early detection and evaluation of quantitative and qualitative deviations from the nutritional balance due to excess or deficiency
• Identify and classify foods, food products, and food ingredients
• Review the chemical composition of foods, their physicochemical properties, their nutritional value, their bioavailability, their organoleptic properties, and the changes they undergo as a result of technological and culinary processes
• Get up-to-date on the composition and utilities of new foods
• Review basic aspects of food microbiology, parasitology, and toxicology related to food safety
• Evaluate and maintain adequate hygiene and food safety practices, applying current legislation
• Acquire teamwork skills as a unit in which professionals and other personnel related to the diagnostic evaluation and treatment of dietetics and nutrition are structured in a uni or multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary way
• Apply Food Science and Nutrition to the practice of pediatric dietetics
• Update the different educational methods of application in health sciences, as well as communication techniques applicable to food and human nutrition with a special focus on children and adolescents
• Reflect on the usefulness of the school cafeteria as an educational vehicle
• Review the knowledge of physiology and nutrition in the different stages of infant development
• Analyze the implications of nutrition in the growth process and in the prevention and treatment of different childhood pathologies
• Identify the repercussion that a pregnant and lactating mother's nutrition has on the intrauterine growth and evolution of newborns and infants
• Describe the nutritional requirements in the different periods of childhood
• Apply the knowledge acquired on nutritional assessment in Pediatrics
• Evaluate and prescribe physical activity as a factor involved in nutritional status
• Calculate child and adolescent athlete dietary needs and risks
• Review current trends in premature infant nutrition
• Update current trends in the nutrition of infants with delayed intrauterine growth and the implication of nutrition on metabolic diseases
• Reflect on the role of human milk as a functional food
• Review the physiology of breastfeeding
• Analyze the operation of milk banks
• Update knowledge on new formulae used in infant feeding
• Reflect on new trends and models in infant feeding
• Reflect and identify risk factors in school and adolescent nutrition
• Review the pathophysiological aspects of pediatric diseases
• Incorporate the different techniques and products of basic and advanced nutritional support related to pediatric nutrition into clinical practice
• Identify children at nutritional risk who are eligible for specific support
• Evaluate and monitor the supervision of children on nutritional support
• Update knowledge on probiotics and prebiotics in infant feeding
• Acquire technical knowledge on the handling of systems and devices necessary for nutritional support in critically ill patients
• Identify children suffering from malnutrition
• Describe the correct nutritional support for a malnourished child
• Classify the different types of malnutrition and their impact on the developing organism
• Reflect on the etiology, repercussions, and treatment of childhood obesity
• Know and learn the nutritional treatment of the most common deficiency diseases in our environment
• Update knowledge on the role that fats play in children's diets
• Assess the psychological and physiological aspects involved in eating disorders in young children
• Identify eating behavior disorders
• Review the pathogenesis and update the treatment of inborn errors of metabolism
• Update knowledge on the treatment of dyslipidemias and the role that nutrition plays in their development and treatment
• Manage diabetic children's diet
• Assess the nutritional support of children with cancer in different situations
• Reflect on the role of nutrition in autistic children
• Review the rationale for dietary support of acute diarrhea
• Update the management of nutritional support in inflammatory diseases
• Reflect on the relationship between constipation and infant nutrition
• Identify exclusion foods in the diets of children with celiac disease
• Update the dietary management of children with nephropathy
• Update knowledge on food allergies and intolerances
• Identify dietary factors related to bone metabolism
• Review the dietary management of oral cavity pathologies in children
• Get up-to-date on managing children with gastroesophageal reflux
• Understand the implications that nutrition can have in the treatment of liver diseases
• Describe the main malabsorption syndromes and how they are treated
• Identify the appropriate nutritional therapy for pediatric patients with chronic pulmonary pathology
• Get up-to-date 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
• Get up-to-date on 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
• Get up-to-date on dietary management procedures for adults with chronic renal failure and on dialysis
• Update knowledge on the most common food allergies and intolerances
• Reflect on new techniques in digestive and intestinal surgery and their impact on patient nutrition
• Get up-to-date on small intestine management procedures
• Know the dietary treatment for biliary and pancreatic pathologies
• Know the main malabsorption syndromes and how they are treated
• Identify the signs and symptoms of the most prevalent colonic pathology and its nutritional treatment
• Explain the role of the intestinal microbiota and its implications in pathologies
• Know 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 adult artificial nutrition
• Incorporate the nutritional treatment of the most prevalent deficiency diseases in adults
• Identify and assess obesity and know its dietary or surgical treatment
• Manage the type II diabetic diet and other lifestyle factors
• Get up-to-date on the dietary management of dyslipidemias
• Study the DASH diet as a treatment for cardiovascular disease
• Identify dietary factors involved in hyperuricemia
• Get up-to-date on the procedures for dietary management of patients with disabling neuromuscular pathology and stroke
• Identify the nutritional support needs of patients with Parkinson's disease and Alzheimer's disease at each evolutionary stage
• Manage the diet of critically ill patients
• Provide nutritional support to different oncology patients
• Update knowledge in the light of the current evolution of HIV patients on the nutritional support of the disease
• Identify dietary and lifestyle factors involved in the genesis and treatment of osteoporosis

Become a professional by increasing your knowledge in this exciting field of study"