Area of Studies

medical sciences

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Department

Faculty of Public Health in Bytom, Medical University of Silesia in Katowice, Poland

Tuition and Other Fees

Admission fee: 85 PLN

Tuition fee: 23 200 PLN/ per year in the academic year 2023/2024

Application Deadline(s)

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Course Description

Course Profile

During the course of the studies the graduates gain:

a) the knowledge of:

• principles of nutrition physiology and clinical biochemistry and their use in nutrition planning,

• methods of evaluation of the quality of individual groups of food products and their significance,

• essentials of clinical psychology and their use in everyday professional practice to solve complex health, social and family problems,

• principles of clinical nutrition including parenteral and enteral nutrition using industrial diets to prevent and treat malnutrition,

• team management principles,

• the basics of developing forms of individual entrepreneurship,

• regulations regarding official food control (Good Manufacturing Practice, Hazard System and Critical Control Points), compliance with the above in professional work and understanding their importance in improvement of food production quality,

• rules for the operation of equipment used in mass caterers.

b) the skills including:

• developing clear and understandable instructions for personnel providing nutritional care,

• theory and practice of marketing and management,

• providing nutritional counselling as well as planning and providing nutritional care for inpatients,

• determining indications using industrial diets available in Poland, dietary supplements and foods for particular nutritional purposes in correction of the eating disorders,

• planning, age- and physical activity-tailored, dietary management based on scientific evidence, to prevent diseases due to faulty nutrition,

• providing instruction for employees employed in food production, comprising organization of work stations and compliance with the principles of good hygiene and manufacturing practice,

• providing independent nutrition counselling for diverse population groups, both healthy and ill,

• conducting training programs in nutrition and dietetics,

• operation and management of a diet clinic/nutrition department.

c) the social competence to:

• continue education throughout the working life constantly update the professional knowledge and skills,

• manage the team implementing tasks in the field of nutritional education as well as prevention and treatment of nutrition-dependent diseases,

• compliance with professional secrecy and patient’s rights, including the right to reliable information on proposed nutritional procedures.

Education Requirements

The qualification procedure for the second-cycle degree program in dietetics is based on:

- the grade point average obtained during the whole period of the first cycle degree program in dietetics, or human nutrition, or human nutrition and food assessment, or food and nutrition technology (the grade point average calculated as an arithmetic average of the results of all examinations, credits ending a subject, obtained throughout the study period),

- certificate documenting English language fluency level.

Contact

Admission Office

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