Professionals at the highest level must update their knowledge with courses like this, where they will learn the latest developments in the field"

Specialization in nutrition is an essential response from professionals to provide care and implement preventive measures for the population in matters of food and health.  This program offers the student the possibility to deepen and update knowledge, using the latest educational technology.

The syllabus covers the main current topics in Nutrition in such a way that whoever masters them will be prepared to work in this field. Therefore, it is not just another qualification on your professional profile, 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.

This postgraduate diploma allows the pharmacist to specialize in the field of Clinical Nutrition in areas of special interest such as:

• Nutrigenetics
• Nutrigenomics
• Nutrition and obesity
• Hospital dietetics
• Nutritional Trends

You will be trained by professionals with extensive experience in Clinical Nutrition in Pharmacy, who will guide you throughout the educational process”

This postgraduate diploma in Nutrition and Disease contains the most complete and up-to-date scientific program on the market. The most important features include:

• The graphic, schematic and practical contents of the course are designed to provide all the essential information required 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 available 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 in and Nutrition and Disease , you will obtain a postgraduate diploma from TECH Technological University"

Its teaching staff includes renowned specialists in nutrition based on clinical practice, who bring the experience of their work to this program.

Thanks to their multimedia content developed with the latest educational technology, they will allow the pharmacist to learn in a contextual and situated way, i.e. a simulated environment that will provide immersive learning programmed to train in real situations.

This program is designed around Problem-Based Learning, by means of which the pharmacist must try to solve the different situations of their professional practice that arise during the program.

For this reason, you will be assisted by an innovative, interactive video system created by renowned and experienced experts in the field of radiology with extensive teaching experience.

This postgraduate diploma offers training in simulated environments, which provides an immersive learning experience designed to train for real-life situations"

It includes real cases to bring the development of the program as close as possible to the reality of pharmacy care"

The main objective of the program is the development of both theoretical and practical learning, so that the pharmacist can master, in a practical and rigorous way, the study of Nutrition and Disease .

This refresher program will generate a sense of security in pharmacy practice, which will help you grow both personally and professionally”

General Objectives

• Update the knowledge on new trends in human nutrition, in both healthy and pathological situations
• Promote work strategies based on the practical knowledge of the new trends in nutrition and its application to 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 stimulation through continuous education and research
• Train the professional for research into patients with nutritional problems

Specific Objectives

Module 1. Assessment of Nutritional Status and Diet. Practical Application

• Assess and calculate nutritional requirements in health and disease at any stage of the life cycle
• Predict patients’ nutritional risk
• Early detection and assessment of quantitative and qualitative deviations from the nutritional balance due to excess or deficiency
• Assess 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

Module 2. Nutrition in Digestive System Pathologies

• Describe the main malabsorption syndromes and how they are treated
• 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
• Reflect on the etiology of constipation and its relationship to diet in adults
• 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
• Explain the role of the intestinal microbiota and its implications in diseases

Module 3. Nutrition in Endocrine-Metabolic Diseases

• Update knowledge on the treatment of dyslipidemias and the role that nutrition plays in their development and treatment
• Identify dietary factors related to bone metabolism
• Identify dietary factors involved in hyperuricemia
• Identify dietary and lifestyle factors involved in the genesis and treatment of osteoporosis

Module 4. Nutrition in Kidney Diseases  

• Understand the implications that nutrition can have in the treatment of liver diseases
• Get up to date on dietary management procedures for adults with chronic renal failure and on dialysis

Module 5. Nutrition in Neurological Diseases

• Review the psychological bases and biopsychosocial factors that affect human eating behavior
• Get up to date on the procedures for dietary management of patients with disabling neuromuscular pathology and strokes
• Identify the nutritional support needs of patients with Parkinson's disease and Alzheimer's disease at each evolutionary stage

Module 6. Nutrition in Special Situations

• Identify the relationship between nutrition and immune status
• Review current trends in premature infant nutrition
• Identify eating behavior disorders
• Manage the diet of critically ill patients
• Review the pathogenesis and update the treatment of inborn errors of metabolism
• Review the rationale for dietary support of acute diarrhea
• Update knowledge on food allergies and intolerances

Module 7. Nutrition in Deficiency Diseases 

• Acquire technical knowledge on the handling of systems and devices necessary for nutritional support in critically ill patients
• Learn and understand the nutritional treatment of the most common deficiency diseases in our environment
• 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
• Update the management of nutritional support in inflammatory diseases
• Incorporate the nutritional treatment of the most prevalent deficiency diseases in adults
• Manage the type II diabetic diet and other lifestyle factors

Module 8. Artificial Nutrition in Adults

• Gain up-to-date knowledge on the dietetic treatment of oral cavity pathologies in adults paying special attention to sensory disorders and mucositis
• 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 artificial nutrition in adults 
   

Make the most of the opportunity and take the step to get up to date on the latest developments in Nutrition and Disease ”