Nutritional Medicine is a new field in medicine that is based on clinical nutrition but is wider in scope, covering aspects of nutrition and health via the role that nutrition plays in health, disease, lifecycle and ageing.
In this program students will gain a deep evidence-based understanding of the complex relationships between nutrition and diseases. They will learn to take a critical and scholarly approach to theory, practice, literature and research findings, resulting in a deeper understanding of the range and potential of the nutritional management of disease.
The program emphasizes on an integrative approach to healthcare.
This program prepares graduates to practice in a wide range of clinical, consulting and industrial settings and included formal clinical nutrition in inpatient medical wards including ICU, medical and surgical specialty, extensive experiences in outpatient clinics including obesity, type2 diabetes, GDM and celiac.
The Aim of the Course (including its vision and mission)
The aim of the program is to inform and train those to whom the public turns for advice on nutritionally-related aspects of health and disease.
In keeping with modern concepts concerning master graduates in the field of nutrition, all graduates will be expected to enthusiastically inform and inspire their patients and clients to adopt health-protecting and the healthy diets and develop plans to prevent, and even reverse all nutrition related-diseases in enhanced health and well-being of the patients and the community.
The mission is to develop nutritional medicine graduates who have:
- An understanding of the complex relationship between nutrition and disease.
- An understanding of nutritional, dietary and lifestyle factors which influence wellbeing throughout the lifespan, and during illness and disease.
- Ability to educate the individual or community in the area of food choices which will help maintenance of wellbeing and management of disease.
- Ability to develop effective nutritional treatment plans for communities or individuals.
- An understanding of methodologies in the design of relevant research.
- Ability to undertake supervised research activities.