Graduation Requirement
Program Learning Outcomes of the Clinical Nutrition Program:
Knowledge and Understanding:
- Recognize nutrients structure, their functions and metabolism, functional foods, food composition and microbiology, safety, and service in hospitals.
- Recognize nutritional status, nutrients needs for both of healthy people in various life stages and activities and patients with various nutrition related diseases conditions, principles of physiology and pathophysiology, appropriate dietary approaches and basic life support.
- Identify nutrition related diseases in various persons and community groups, their prevalence, and prevention through various measures.
Identify community health needs, health research, various studies and computer programs dealing with health-related data.
Skills:
- Interpret functions of body systems and various nutrients; their metabolism in health and disease, role of functional food components and how to ensure safety of foods during their handling and service in hospitals.
- Assess nutritional status and requirements for persons and community groups engaged in various activities and with different disease conditions through appropriate basic life support.
- Plan balanced healthy diets for various persons and community groups with various activities and for various disease conditions using the appropriate feeding regimens.
- Conduct health research using the appropriate methodology and computer software to improve the nutritional status of all family members and community groups through various preventive measures.
- Search for a selected topic related to the course through the internet or databases and present it in a form of PowerPoint.
- Communicate properly with colleagues, health team members and patients.
- Using various tools for vital signs and nutritional assessment for healthy people and patients.
Perform various blood biochemical tests and food analysis using various instruments.
Values, Autonomy, and Responsibility
- Adhere to the professional Code of Ethics, Standards of Practice, and institutional policies during visits to the health settings
