Dietistic
Class: L/SNT3 - Technical health professions
If you are interested in the field of food and nutrition, this course allows you to deepen the necessary knowledge to promote health and well-being of both healthy and sick individuals through proper nutrition, on both individual and collective levels. After graduation, you can work in the areas of health and nutritional protection, food safety, collective catering, organization, management, training, and research. You can work as a freelancer or as an employee in public or private healthcare facilities or in non-hospital structures. The study program particularly provides skills in human nutrition, collective catering, prevention, and clinical nutrition. With this degree, you will be qualified to work as a professional in the field.
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Characteristics and Objectives
The Bachelor's degree in Dietetics is designed to give students the skills and knowledge they need for a career in nutrition and dietetics. The course is designed to equip students with the skills to organise and coordinate specific activities related to nutrition in general and dietetics in particular. Students will also be able to collaborate with stakeholders in charge of safeguarding the health and hygiene aspect of the dietary service. They will learn to develop, formulate and implement dietary plans for both healthy and pathological subjects, in accordance with medical prescriptions, and to monitor their adherence. Furthermore, the dietician collaborates with other figures in the multidisciplinary treatment of eating disorders; he/she studies and works out the composition of food sizes to meet the nutritional needs of population groups and plans the organisation of feeding services for healthy and sick communities. They also engage in educational activities and provide information on the principles of correct nutrition, with the aim of facilitating the recovery and maintenance of good health in individuals, communities and population groups.
Occupational opportunities
Graduates are eligible to work in public and private healthcare facilities, either as employees or as independent professionals, once they have registered with the TSRM PSTRP health professions order. The main fields of work for this professional are nutritional assistance in public health facilities (hospitals, outpatient clinics, prevention departments and other territorial services of the National Health System), nutritional assistance in private facilities (clinics, outpatient clinics) and catering. Other areas of work include nutrition education, the food industry, the pharmaceutical industry, the sports environment and clinical research.
From Bachelor's degree to Master's degree
The course provides access to the Master's degree course in Science of Technical Health Professions SNT/3, according to the modalities indicated in the announcements, as well as access to first-level Master's degrees. Graduates of the master's degree can then progress to the PhD programme, following the application procedures outlined in the relevant calls for applications.
