
Master in Clinical Nutrition
Monte de Caparica, Portugal
DURATION
2 Years
LANGUAGES
English
PACE
Full time
APPLICATION DEADLINE
09 May 2025
EARLIEST START DATE
01 Sep 2025
TUITION FEES
EUR 8,464 / per year *
STUDY FORMAT
On-Campus
* for non-EU students | EU students: 4026€
Introduction
To prepare professionals with recognised skills who are apt to face new challenges in their professional lives, making it easier to adapt to current paradigms of Clinical Nutrition and its performance in multiple contexts. Resorting to a highly qualified teaching staff with professional experience and dedicated to making the learning of students more fulfilling while promoting advanced training in Master in Clinical Nutrition.
This certificate confers the qualification for the Master's degree in Clinical Nutrition to the degree of Master's (90 ECTS).
Duration
- 1.5 Years
Innovative aspects of the course
- Digital tools: Practical use of digital platforms for managing consultations and remote nutritional monitoring of patients.
- Multidisciplinary Approach: Active collaboration with areas of psychology, medicine and exercise, focusing on holistic treatment and promoting translational research.
- Clinical practice: A strong component of clinical practice in a consultation/hospital environment, facilitated by nationally renowned institutions.
- Specialization: Alignment with the advanced competencies of the Clinical Nutrition Specialty, defined by the Order of Nutritionists.
- Use of Big Data: Opportunity to develop skills in analyzing large data sets to identify dietary/nutritional patterns and health trends.
Differentiating aspects
- Modern Curriculum: Inclusion of differentiating modules focused on pressing areas in public health, such as mental health and nutrition, sports performance, and nutrigenomics, among others.
- Autonomy: The Possibility for students to conduct their own research in clinical practice, developing original work in the areas that most motivate them.
- Integration with Public Health Programs: Partnerships with public and private health institutions, which enable integration into projects with practical applications in communities.
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Curriculum
Year 1
- Nutrition Fundamentals
- Pathology and Global Approach to the Patient
- Nutrition and Chronic Disease
- Drug-Food Interactions
- Optimal Nutritional Therapy
- Scientific Basis of Health Research
- Nutrition Research Methodology
- Evidence-based Medicine and Ethics
- Clinical Statistics
- Dissertation Preparation
- Current Issues in Clinical Nutrition
Year 2
- Dissertation
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Teaching Methods
- Problem-based learning: Using case studies to discuss nutritional diagnoses and nutritional intervention plans.
- Practical Simulations: Simulated clinical scenarios to prepare students for real interactions with patients.
- Mentoring and Supervision: Close monitoring by experienced professionals throughout the course, with a particular focus on guiding students to develop scientific, clinical and soft skills.
- Expert Lectures: Integration of nationally and internationally renowned clinical and research professionals who can share their experiences and innovations in the field.