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Overview
Key facts
The Leeds Course in Clinical Nutrition at the University of Leeds in Clinical Nutrition offers:
- increase awareness of nutritional compromise and its consequences; give practical guidance on assessment of patients, and discuss particular patient groups (surgicalpatients, those with irritable bowel syndrome, renal disease, eating disorders and liver disease).
- discuss practicalities of feeding in terms of ethics, different methods of feeding and understand more about different techniques to give artificial nutrition.
- establish principles of nutritional importance in extreme clinical situations (short bowel syndrome, refeeding syndrome, parenteral nutrition).
Programme Structure
Courses include:
- Nutrition and risk – what can we do?
- Estimating nutritional requirements
- Nutritional nightmares in gut-brain disorders
- Nutrition and eating disorders
- Ethics of feeding
- Short bowel syndrome
- Preventing the refeeding syndrome
- Nutrition and the surgical patient
- Nutrition and the liver patient
- Pharmacy and parenteral nutrition
- Nutritional nightmares in gut-brain disorders
- Preventing the refeeding syndrome
- Nutrition in IBD
Key information
Duration
- Full-time
- 3 days
Start dates & application deadlines
- Starting
- Apply before
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Language
English
Delivered
On Campus
Campus Location
- Leeds, United Kingdom
Disciplines
Nutrition & Dietetics Food Science View 40 other Short Courses in Nutrition & Dietetics in United KingdomWhat students do after studying
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Academic requirements
We are not aware of any specific GRE, GMAT or GPA grading score requirements for this programme.
English requirements
We are not aware of any English requirements for this programme.
Other requirements
General requirements
The Leeds Course in Clinical Nutrition is aimed at you if you’re a professional with an interest in clinical nutrition. It will particularly appeal to you if you have an interest in patient nutrition or if you’re a:
- clinician
- dietitian
- doctor
- hospital pharmacist
- nursing staff member
- others with interest in patient nutrition
Tuition Fees
Living costs
Leeds
United Kingdom
637 - 1103 GBP / month
The living costs include the total expenses per month, covering accommodation, public transportation, utilities (electricity, internet), books and groceries.
Funding
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