Module EW3505-KP05

Nutritional Medicine - Outpatient Services (WPAEM)


Duration

1 Semester

Turnus of offer

each semester

Credit points

5

Course of studies, specific fields and terms:

  • Bachelor Nutritional Medicine 2024, optional subject, Nutritional Sciences
  • Bachelor Nutritional Medicine 2018, optional subject, Nutritional Sciences

Classes and lectures:

  • Ambulante Ernährungsmedizin (seminar / exercises, 3 SWS)

Workload:

  • 105 hours private studies
  • 45 hours in-classroom work

Contents of teaching:

  • Organization and implementation of an outpatient nutrition medical consultation.
  • Pathophysiology and therapy of selected nutrition-related diseases.
  • Outpatient nutrition therapy. Methodology for assessing nutritional status, interpretation of food diaries.
  • Resource assessment and motivation analysis.
  • Measures to improve nutrition therapy adherence.
  • Basics of doctor-patient and nutrition communication.

Qualification-goals/Competencies:

  • Students have broad and integrated knowledge in outpatient nutrition medicine as well as in the organization and practical implementation of a nutrition medical consultation.
  • They possess a critical understanding of the interpretation of food diaries and reflect on nutrition communication processes in an appropriate manner.
  • Students have a broad range of suitable methods for assessing complex nutrition-related contexts in an outpatient setting.
  • They can explain, argue and further develop complex aspects from exemplary areas of nutrition medicine to professionals using specialized language.
  • They independently define, reflect on and evaluate learning and work process goals, and can independently and sustainably design these processes.

Grading through:

  • see Notes

Responsible for this module:

  • Prof. Dr. med. Christian Sina

Teacher:

  • Institute of Nutrition Medicine
  • Prof. Dr. med. Christian Sina

Literature:

  • Biesalski, Pirlich, Bischoff, Weimann : Ernährungsmedizin Thieme, 5. Auflage 2017
  • Kasper : Ernährungsmedizin und Diätetik Urban & Fischer Verlag/Elsevier GmbH 12. Auflage 2014

Language:

  • offered only in German

Notes:

The allocation of credit points and grading is done through: evaluation of a written case report, including a nutrition protocol.

Last Updated:

31.03.2023