Nutrition and Applied Dietetics for the Cancer Patient

Master
1st level vocational master
A.Y. 2022/2023
Study area
Medicine and Healthcare
1st level vocational master
60
ECTS
1
Years
09-03-2023 - 01-03-2024
Italian
This Master?s programme aims to instil the necessary knowledge in students so that they are able to assess and interpret data relating to cancer patients? nutritional status, and to prepare a nutrition plan that optimises caloric intake and nutrients in a manner that accords with the patient?s daily nutritional requirements, and their clinical, functional, and metabolic status.
This educational programme further intends to position dieticians taking care of cancer patients with the tool kit required to provide an upstream assessment (and downstream re-assessment) of all patients? nutritional risks, and to perform an in-depth review of their nutritional status, before proposing a diet that is suitable to their clinical/functional status (diet counselling, tailored diet plans, oral nutritional supplements, total or complementary artificial nutrition). They must be able to assess the impact that the diet plan will have on the patient's outcome
To be eligible for the programme, students must hold a degree in the following class under former Ministerial Decree no. 270/2004: L/SNT3 Technical Healthcare Professions (solely for those holding a degree in Dietetics).
Key employment opportunities fall into the category of Nutritional Diagnosis and Treatment Plans (?PDTA?), or as a component of the PDTA for other types of illnesses, weighing whether to generate an inter-hospital PDTA.

Courses list

Open sessions
Courses or activities Professor(s) ECTS Total hours Language
Assessment of the Patient's Nutritional Status 3 54 Italian
Assessment of the Patient's Nutritional Status 3 24 Italian
Nutritional Diagnosis 4 32 Italian
Nutritional Diagnosis 3 54 Italian
Nutritional Support and Intervention
11 198 Italian
Nutritional Support and Intervention 10 80 Italian
Prevention and Research Methodology 3 24 Italian
Prevention and Research Methodology 3 54 Italian