The Master’s Program in Nutrition and Dietetics, with its research activities and theoretical-practical aspects in areas of clinical nutrition, aims to prepare qualified professionals with a high level of training and skills needed to employ a nutritional approach to patients with predominantly endocrine-metabolic diseases.
The program includes an overview of appropriate diagnostic and therapeutic techniques for the specific, special, and distinctive physiological behavior of patients of all age groups (under both normal and pathological conditions) while its primary focus is a comprehensive study of physiology, the alterations, and functioning of a patient’s nutrition and diet, physiopathology, and pharmacology (particularly drug metabolism and nutrient-drug interactions). Graduates are expected not only to remain up to date in their field but to actively contribute to the prevention, control, and timely detection of diseases that affect the nutritional status of patients and the general population, particularly by carrying out research on relevant topics in prevalent diseases.
Graduates will rely on effective communication skills to perform nutritional assessments and provide pertinent counseling and education. Their integral vision of a clinical nutritional approach to food and nutritional pathologies will allow them to select and recommend clinical, pharmacological, therapeutic, or invasive treatments based on broad clinical knowledge, cost-benefit analysis, and the best scientific evidence. Graduates will participate in clinical diagnosis and multidisciplinary work at a hospital management level.
Program enrollment: Program headcount totals the number of students enrolled yearly.
Graduation rate: is calculated through the 2020-2021 academic year, based on new, first-time students entering in the fall semester, regardless of whether they enroll in the daytime or evening version of their program (if available). These rates do not consider incoming transfer students.
In every semester, the program provides assessment results according to its Multiannual Assessment Plan (MAP), which typically considers one or more of its program learning outcomes (PLOs). Most programs utilize the platform Brightspace to collect and assess student work and to present the data and evidence of student achievement. These results and their analysis, with the objective of identifying areas for improvement, are presented in the program’s annual assessment report. In the graphic below, the most recent period in which a PLO has been assessed is indicated, with the percentage indicating achievement of the expected performance standard for that PLO, according to the rubric used to evaluate the student work. This standard can be designated at an introductory, intermediate, or final level, depending upon how the course learning outcomes (CLOs) align to each PLO in the program’s curriculum map.