Get up-to-date on Clinical Nutrition in Pediatrics with TECH and this innovative learning model that prioritizes professional updating in a in-person and immersive way"

Advances in Clinical Nutrition in Pediatrics have provided solutions to feeding problems that were previously neglected or underestimated. An example of this is the new trends in managing and anticipating complications arising from the bidirectional interaction between drugs and nutrients. In addition, new strategies have emerged to address food allergies, obesity and pre-school diabetes. Novel diagnostic methods for Dysphagia have also appeared and specific diets have been developed for pathologies such as infant heart disease and nutrient malabsorption syndromes. Keeping abreast of all these developments is a major challenge for specialists.

For this reason, TECH brings to the educational context a fully practical and in-person program, in which the doctor will be able to spend a 3-week stay in a hospital of international prestige. During this educational period, you will have access to cutting-edge technological resources and will be able to apply, through them, novel diagnostic and treatment procedures for eating disorders. In this way, and attending to real patients from the first day of professional practice, you will develop skills of great rigor for this branch of the medical sciences.

In addition, this Internship program will allow the direct relationship with great experts, which will provide the development of specific knowledge based on extensive professional experiences. The specialist will be supervised at all times by an assistant tutor who will enable their insertion in different dynamics of clinical work. This clinical practice will be extended from Monday to Friday to complete 120 educational hours and upon completion, the TECH graduate will be ready to practice Pediatric Nutrition care procedures, based on the latest scientific evidence, with the highest effectiveness.

Enjoy an intensive 3-week internship at a prestigious center and update yourself on the latest clinical procedures in order to grow professionally"

Through this Internship program, the physician will be up-to-date on the most modern evaluation and treatment procedures in relation to Pediatric Clinical Nutrition. In this innovative educational modality, you will have the opportunity to develop skills in an exclusively in-person and direct way, through the most rigorous hospital stay in a prestigious institution in the healthcare environment.

Incorporate into your professional practice the most advanced and modern criteria to assess and address childhood and adolescent obesity”

General Objectives

• Update the pediatrician's knowledge on new trends in pre-school nutrition in both health and pathological situations through evidence-based medicine
• Promote work strategies based on the practical knowledge of the new trends in nutrition and its application to child 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 workshops simulation and/or specific training
• Encourage professional stimulation 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 
• Manage food databases and composition tables 
• Examine the chemical composition of foods, their physicochemical properties, their nutritional value, their bioavailability, their organoleptic characteristics and the modifications they undergo as a result of technological and culinary processes 
• Explain basic aspects of food microbiology, parasitology, and toxicology related to food safety 
• Analyze the operation of milk banks 
• Explain the new developments and available evidence on probiotics and prebiotics in infant feeding
• Incorporate phytotherapy as a coadjuvant treatment in clinical practice 
• Identify and classify foods, food products, and food ingredients
• Master current trends in premature infant nutrition  
• Comprehend the latest evidence on food allergies and intolerances  
• Calculate nutritional requirements in health and disease situations at any stage of the life cycle  
• Evaluate and maintain adequate hygiene and food safety practices, applying current legislation  
• Update the drug and nutrient interaction and its implication in the patient’s treatment
• Review the psychological bases and biopsychosocial factors that affect human eating behavior
• Describe the main malabsorption syndromes and how they are treated
• Incorporate into clinical practice the different techniques and products of basic and advanced nutritional support related to pediatric nutrition
• Classify the different types of malnutrition and their impact on the developing organism
• Analyze the implications of nutrition in the growth process and in the prevention and treatment of different childhood pathologies
• Assess the psychological and physiological aspects involved in eating disorders in young children
• Explain the treatment of dyslipidemias and the role that nutrition plays in their genesis and treatment

This program will provide you with an immersive learning, in direct contact with real cases, of the keys to the pediatric dietary approach of endocrine pathologies such as Diabetes”