Clinical Nutrition

There are 30 contact hours comprised of lectures, workshops, seminars and a laboratory session, and 130 self-direct hours during the study of the course. All classes will be delivered using hybrid technology to allow teaching simultaneously to students who are situated both on campus and online. Academic staff will be available at dedicated times for online support and discussion forums.

Who is it for?

This course is for those who are working in clinical settings, and/or are interested in knowledge and skills that can be used to improve health conditions in patients with various diet-related health conditions.

Timetable

Benefits

The course is worth 15 credits and can be taken as part of MSc Applied Nutrition at City St George’s.

The course will cover the following topics:

• Principles of Clinical Nutrition
• Nutrition and oral disease
• Nutrition and the aging eye
• Nutrition and cognitive disorders
• Nutrition, gut microbiota and disease
• Dietary management in gastrointestinal disorders
• Specialized nutrition support in hypermetabolic conditions (including burns, wasting, and infections, surgery, trauma, cancer etc.)
• General principles of nutritional support (Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition)
• Malnutrition and assessment tools
• Weight management (Tier 1-4)
• Eating disorders and treatment
• Nutritional management of non-communicable diseases (including type 2 diabetes mellitus, cardiovascular disease, cancer, bone health etc.)
• Food allergy, sensitivity, and intolerance (lactose intolerance, celiac disease etc.)
• The role of alcohol in health and disease
• Ethical issues in nutritional support in clinical settings

Successfully completing the course, you will be able to achieve the following learning outcomes:

Knowledge:

• Explain how clinical and functional metabolic states influence nutritional needs.
• Explore the ways in which malnutrition and common clinical disease states influence body composition, metabolism and function, and nutritional demands.
• Critically assess the appropriateness and limitations of different types of nutrition support.
• Critically appraise nutritional assessment tools and their applications.
• Critically evaluate the dietary management of common clinical disease states supported by argument and evidence.
• Appraise the relationship of diet and gut microbiota and its implications for health and disease.

Skills:

• Evaluate and apply an appropriate nutritional assessment tool to evaluate the nutritional status of a given case study.
• Develop dietary intervention strategies in response to influential factors in a given case study.
• Perform blood pressure and blood glucose measurement and urine test and report the clinical implications for nutrition status.

Values and attitudes:

• Discuss ethical values and challenges in clinical nutrition during debates and discussions with fellow students.
• Show respect and tolerance for other participants, and for a range of views and beliefs.
• Provide proper reference to the work you cite and follow University regulations about plagiarism and professional misconduct.

Formative assessment

You are required to contribute to a Forum discussion on a given topic relating to clinical nutrition, 200-300 words.

Summative assessment

There are two summative assessments.

• An essay that requires you to critically evaluate dietary interventions on a specific disease (1,500 words) (50% weight).
• A 1,500-word report based on a given clinical nutrition case study, in which you are required to critically evaluate the nutritional status and provide intervention strategies to improve the nutritional status of the case study (50% weight).

The pass mark of the course is 50%. You will need to pass all components of the summary assessment to pass the course.

Once you've successfully completed this course, you will be provided with proof of completion. You could offset 15 credits as part of a postgraduate programme (e.g., MSc Applied Nutrition), continuing your study with further courses to make up a Postgraduate Certificate (PGCert) 60 credits, Postgraduate Diploma (PGDip) 120 credits or Master of Science (MSc) 180 credits qualification (all credits must be awarded within five years of study commencing).

This course is provided by the School of Health & Medical Sciences.

Credits

This course is worth 15 credits toward eligible programmes.

You are eligible to apply for this course if you have a BSc degree in life sciences, or BSc in other subjects with working experience in clinical settings.

English requirements

IELTS 6.5, with no individual section less than 6.0, is required for overseas students.

Core Text Books

Grodner, M., et al. (2002) Nutritional Foundations and Clinical Applications: A Nursing Approach. 8^th ed. Elsevier Health Sciences.

Katz, D.L., 1963, Friedman, R.S.C. & Lucan, S.C. 2015, Nutrition in clinical practice: a comprehensive, evidence-based manual for the practitioner, 3rd edn, Wolters Kluwer Health, Philadelphia.. ebook

Clinical obesity in adults and children (2022). In Kopelman P. G., Caterson I. D. and Dietz W. H.(Eds.), (Fourth ed.). John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Medical nutrition and disease: A case-based approach (2014). In Hark L., Deen D. and Morrison G.(Eds.), (Fifth ed.). John Wiley & Sons. ebook

Nutrition in the prevention and treatment of disease (2017). In Coulston A. M., Boushey C., Ferruzzi M. G. and Delahanty L. M.(Eds.), (Fourth / by Ann M. Coulston, Carol J. Boushey, Mario Ferruzzi, Linda Delahanty. ed.). Academic Press. ebook

Present knowledge in nutrition: Clinical and applied topics in nutrition/ volume 2 (2020). In Marriott B. P., Birt D. F., Stallings V. A. and Yates A. A.(Eds.), (Eleventh ed.). Academic Press. ebook

Further Reading

Bales, C.W. & Ritchie, C.S. (2009), Handbook of Clinical Nutrition and Aging, 2nd edn, Springer, Dordrecht. ebook

Chakrabarty, K. & Chakrabarty, A.S. (2019), Textbook of Nutrition in Health and Disease, 1st 2019. edn, Springer Nature Singapore, Singapore. ebook

Duttaroy, A.K. (2021), Evidence-based nutrition and clinical evidence of bioactive foods in human health and disease, Academic Press, London. ebook

Nutrition, weight, and digestive health: The clinician's desk reference (2022). In Newberry C., Laster J. and Pickett-Blakely O. (Eds.), (1st 2022. ed.). Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-94953-2 ebook