Clinical Nutrition and Pathophysiology
Course content
The course will focus on the role of nutrition in the prevention and treatment of diseases. The course presents the links between the influence of disease on nutritional status and metabolism of nutrients, nutritional consequences of disease and possibilities for influencing the course of the disease in the individual patient through nutritional therapy.
Knowledge:
- Understand the fundamentals of a disease.
- Describe the main influence of a disease on the nutritional status.
- Describe how the course of disease affects individual organs' metabolism of nutrients and their functions.
Skills:
- Demonstrate knowledge of nutritional principles and their application for disease prevention and management in adult patients.
- Assess the main nutritional requirements during disease or trauma.
- Demonstrate an overview of the most common diseases in a hospital setting.
- Communicate nutritional changes in physiology in disease, with an emphasis on severe disease where the metabolism has changed significantly.
- Analyse a medical history with regard to nutritional aspects.
- Discuss the impact of disease on nutritional needs.
Competences:
- Compare the different nutritional and diet therapies in disease management.
- Formulate a medical nutritional therapy for a patient.
- Evaluate the efficacy of different nutritional strategies for disease prevention and treatment.
- Work independently and efficiently in teams on a joint project focusing on nutritional aspects of diseases and clinical disorders.
The course will be a combination of lectures, exercises and group work. There will be an ongoing compilation of the various sub-topics with a view of relating to clinical nutrition field. Some theoretical and practical exercises will be included. During the course, one group-based report will be prepared with a focus on pathophysiology and the impact of disease on nutritional status.
Course literature will be announced at study start on the course’s Absalon page.
Courses within the fields of nutrition physiology,
nutrition-related diseases, or equivalent knowledge, skills and
competence are recommended.
Academic qualifications equivalent to a BSc degree is
recommended.
The students will write a group report with a partially-bound content, with oral feedback from the teacher and peer-review feedback from the fellow students during the course.
- ECTS
- 7,5 ECTS
- Type of assessment
-
Written examination, 2 hours under invigilation
- Aid
- All aids allowed
- Marking scale
- 7-point grading scale
- Censorship form
- No external censorship
Several internal examiners
Criteria for exam assessment
Please see ”Learning Outcome”
Single subject courses (day)
- Category
- Hours
- Lectures
- 36
- Preparation
- 123
- Exercises
- 6
- Project work
- 24
- Study Groups
- 15
- Exam
- 2
- English
- 206
Kursusinformation
- Language
- English
- Course number
- NNEK23007U
- ECTS
- 7,5 ECTS
- Programme level
- Full Degree Master
- Duration
-
1 block
- Placement
- Block 4
- Schedulegroup
-
A
- Capacity
- No restrictions.
The number of seats may be reduced in the late registration period - Studyboard
- Study Board of Food, Human Nutrition and Sports
Contracting department
- Department of Nutrition, Exercise and Sports
Contracting faculty
- Faculty of Science
Course Coordinators
- Marie Kjær (6-6b7b803938394869747d75767136737d366c73)
- Mahsa Jalili (5-72666d786645736a7d7833707a336970)
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