Keeping up to date in Clinical Nutrition Counseling in the Community Pharmacy is key to providing better care to our patients”

Clinical nutrition deals with the care of people suffering from diseases in which an adequate diet is part of their treatment. For this reason, pharmacists must be aware of the latest developments in nutrition in order to improve people's state of health and know how to recommend the products best suited to the needs of each consumer.

This professional master’s degree offers the student the possibility of deepening and updating knowledge using the latest educational technology. This qualification offers a global vision of Clinical and Sports Nutrition while focusing on the most important and innovative aspects.

The qualification in Clinical Nutrition Counseling in the Community Pharmacy is an essential response from professionals to the healthcare and preventive needs of the population in terms of nutrition and health.

This professional master’s degree allows specialization in the field of Clinical Nutrition Counseling in the Community Pharmacy in areas of special interest such as: 
Nutrigenetics and Nutrigenomics

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

With this program, students will have the opportunity to study an educational program that brings together the most advanced and in-depth knowledge in the field, where a group of professors of high scientific rigor and extensive international experience offers the most complete and up-to-date information on the latest advances and techniques in Clinical Nutrition Counseling in the Community Pharmacy. 

Update your knowledge through the professional master’s degree in Clinical Nutrition Counseling in the Community Pharmacy” 

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

• More than 100 clinical cases presented by experts in nutrition
• 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
• Clinical practice guidelines on the different pathologies related to nutrition 
• All of this will be complemented by theoretical lessons, questions to the expert, debate forums on controversial topics, and individual reflection assignments
• Availability of content from any fixed or portable device with internet connection

This professional master’s degree may be the best investment you can make when selecting a refresher program, for two reasons: in addition to updating your knowledge in Clinical Nutrition Counseling in the Community Pharmacy, you will obtain a professional master’s degree from TECH Technological University"

Its teaching staff includes renowned specialists in pharmacy 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 professional practice that arise during the course. For this purpose, the pharmacist will be assisted by an innovative interactive video system created by renowned and experienced experts in the field of nutrition with extensive teaching experience.  

Incorporate the latest developments in clinical nutrition into your daily practice and improve your patient care"

You will be able to complete the 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 role"

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

This refresher program will generate a sense of security when practising medicine, which will help you grow both personally and professionally”  

General Objectives

• Update the pharmacist's knowledge on new trends in human nutrition both in health and pathological situations through evidence-based pharmacy
• 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 stimulation through continuous education and research 

Specific Objectives

Module 1. New Developments in Food

• Review the new dietary guidelines, nutritional objectives, and recommended dietary allowances (RDA)
• 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

Module 2. Current Trends in Nutrition

• Update knowledge in nutrigenetics and nutrigenomics
• Incorporate the possibilities of phytotherapy as an adjuvant treatment in clinical practice 
• Identify and classify foods, food products, and food ingredients 
• Review basic aspects of food microbiology, parasitology, and toxicology related to food safety 
• Study the DASH diet as a treatment for cardiovascular disease

Module 3. 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 4. Nutritional Consultation

• Analyze the different methods for assessing nutritional status 
• Manage food databases and composition tables 
• Acquire skills in reading and understanding new food labeling methods 
• Manage the different types of nutritional surveys to assess food intake 
• Gain up-to-date knowledge on the most common food allergies and intolerances

Module 5. Sports Nutrition

• Review the basics of a balanced diet in the different stages of the life cycle, as well as in exercise 
• Calculate child and adolescent athlete dietary needs and risks 
• Assess and prescribe physical activity as a factor involved in nutritional status

Module 6. Clinical Nutrition and Hospital Dietetics

• Update the drug-nutrient interaction and its implication in the patient’s treatment
• Interpret and integrate anthropometric, clinical, biochemical, hematological, immunological and pharmacological data in the nutritional assessment of the patient and in their dietary-nutritional treatment

Module 7. 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

Módulo 8. Nutrición en enfermedades endocrino-metabólicas

• 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 9. 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 10. 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 11. 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 12. 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 13. 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

Module 14. Physiology of Infant Nutrition

• 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 physiology of breastfeeding 
• Review the dietary management of oral cavity pathologies in children 
• Reflect on new trends and models in infant feeding 
• Update knowledge on probiotics and prebiotics in infant feeding

Module 15. Artificial Nutrition in Pediatrics

• Identify the repercussion that a pregnant and lactating mother's nutrition has on the intrauterine growth and evolution of new-borns and infants 
• Reflect on the role of human milk as a functional food 
• Analyze the operation of milk banks 
• Incorporate the different techniques and products of basic and advanced nutritional support related to pediatric nutrition into clinical practice

Module 16. Infant Malnutrition 

• Reflect and identify risk factors in school and adolescent nutrition 
• Review the pathophysiological aspects of pediatric diseases
• Identify children at nutritional risk who are eligible for specific support
• Evaluate and monitor the supervision of children on nutritional support
• 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 
• Update knowledge on the role that fats play in children’s diets

Module 17. Childhood Nutrition and Pathologies

• Update current trends in the nutrition of infants with delayed intrauterine growth and the implication of nutrition on metabolic diseases 
• Review the relation between physiology and nutrition in the different stages of infant development 
• Update knowledge on new formulae used in infant feeding
• Get up to date on managing children with gastroesophageal reflux 
• Analyze the implications of nutrition in the growth process and in the prevention and treatment of different childhood pathologies
• Describe the nutritional requirements in the different periods of childhood 
• Apply the knowledge acquired on nutritional assessment in Pediatrics 
• Reflect on the etiology, repercussions, and treatment of childhood obesity 
• Identify the appropriate nutritional therapy for pediatric patients with chronic pulmonary pathology 
• Assess the psychological and physiological aspects involved in eating disorders in young children
• Manage diabetic children's diets 
• Assess the nutritional support of children with cancer in different situations 
• Reflect on the role of nutrition in autistic children 
• 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

A unique specialization program that will allow you to acquire advanced training in this field"