Egas Moniz School of Health & Science

Master in Clinical Nutrition

To prepare professionals with recognised skills who are apt to face new challenges in their professional lives, making it easier to adapt to current paradigms of Clinical Nutrition and its performance in multiple contexts. Resorting to a highly qualified teaching staff with professional experience and dedicated to making the learning of students more fulfilling while promoting advanced training in Master in Clinical Nutrition.

This certificate confers the qualification for the Master's degree in Clinical Nutrition to the degree of Master's (90 ECTS).

Duration

• 1.5 Years

Innovative aspects of the course

• Digital tools: Practical use of digital platforms for managing consultations and remote nutritional monitoring of patients.
• Multidisciplinary Approach: Active collaboration with areas of psychology, medicine and exercise, focusing on holistic treatment and promoting translational research.
• Clinical practice: A strong component of clinical practice in a consultation/hospital environment, facilitated by nationally renowned institutions.
• Specialization: Alignment with the advanced competencies of the Clinical Nutrition Specialty, defined by the Order of Nutritionists.
• Use of Big Data: Opportunity to develop skills in analyzing large data sets to identify dietary/nutritional patterns and health trends.

Differentiating aspects

• Modern Curriculum: Inclusion of differentiating modules focused on pressing areas in public health, such as mental health and nutrition, sports performance, and nutrigenomics, among others.
• Autonomy: The Possibility for students to conduct their own research in clinical practice, developing original work in the areas that most motivate them.
• Integration with Public Health Programs: Partnerships with public and private health institutions, which enable integration into projects with practical applications in communities.