Class Diotherapy I

Establishment of nutritional therapy appropriate to physiological and pathological changes.

Not applicable

Introduction to clinical nutrition - Concept - Legislation/area of ¿¿activity - Nutrition Care Process: nutritional screening and assessment, nutritional diagnosis, nutritional intervention, monitoring and nutritional evolution Hospital Nutrition - Nutrition and dietetics service - Hospital diets: concept, composition, national and international standardization (IDDSI) Nutritional Therapy - Concept - Legislation: multidisciplinary nutritional therapy team - Enteral: concept, indications, contraindications, prescription, calculations, enteral nutrition formulas - Parenteral: concept, indications, contraindications, prescription, calculations, parenteral nutrition formulas Patient nutritional therapy: - surgical - critical - oncological Assessment Seminar

Theoretical classes: exposition and dialogue, guided study/exercises using multimedia and theoretical-practical classes: clinical cases and group work. Use of multimedia whenever appropriate. The assessment regime can be continuous assessment or, optionally, by final exam (100%). Continuous assessment will be obtained through the written test (TE1) together with clinical cases/recommendations (T1) and seminar (T2). The test will be weighted 50%, journal club/nutritional recommendations 10% and clinical cases/seminar 40%. AC = [TE1 (50%) + T1 (10%) + T2 (40%)]. The assessment of the final or improvement exam will involve a written test on theoretical and theoretical-practical content (100%). Mandatory minimum attendance of 2/3 of theoretical-practical classes. To be approved, students must obtain a minimum grade of 9.5 in each of the T and TP components, and the test or written exam grade cannot be lower than 9.5.

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