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At the completion of this Module, successful students can:
Module learning outcomes
1 - Discuss critically the changes in nutritional requirements in various disease states.
2 - Discuss critically the evidence linking foods, nutrients and dietary patterns to the aetiology of major diet-related diseases.
3 - Discuss the role of diet in management and prevention of various diseases.
4 - Discuss various methods of nutritional assessment in the context of different disease states.
5 - Understand and compile therapeutic diets for various diseases states.
Global Learning Outcomes
• Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities
• Self-management
• Critical thinking
• Digital literacy
• Communication
• Teamwork
Principles of clinical nutrition - Definition and understanding of nutritional problems, Nutritional problems in a clinical environment, Management pathways, Basic nutrition requirements.
Nutritional assessment - Anthropometry, Body composition – DEXA, BodPod, Impedance, TBW, Biochemistry, Immunology, Functional tests, Clinical assessment tools, Nutritional assessment tools in clinical decision
Nutritional support - Estimation of nutrient requirements for provision of nutritional support, Oral feeding and oral nutritional supplements – evidence based practice. Enteral nutrition - types and uses, practices,
procedures, complications. Parenteral nutrition –practices, procedures and complications.
Nutritional management of disease - Metabolic response to stress, Alterations in nutritional requirements in metabolic stress, Role of nutrition in specific disease states incl GI, resp, cancer, neurology
Overnutrition - Clinical presentation, assessment, Prevention and Related morbiditied, Treatment/management approaches, Weight loss strategies
Undernutrition: disease related malnutrition – older persons
Case Study - Dietary Management of Type 1 and Type 2 Diabetes
Case Study - Allergies
Case Study - Paediatrics
Case Study - GI - Coeliac Disease and Irritable Bowel Syndrome
Case Study - CVD
Student Effort Type | Hours |
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Lectures | 24 |
Autonomous Student Learning | 80 |
Total | 104 |
Human Nutrition II (or equivalent)
Description | Timing | Component Scale | % of Final Grade | ||
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Assignment: Individual case study report | Week 12 | n/a | Graded | No | 50 |
Group Project: Factsheet | Week 8 | n/a | Graded | No | 30 |
Multiple Choice Questionnaire: 4 sets of 10 questions | Throughout the Trimester | n/a | Standard conversion grade scale 40% | No | 20 |
Remediation Type | Remediation Timing |
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In-Module Resit | Prior to relevant Programme Exam Board |
• Feedback individually to students, post-assessment
• Group/class feedback, post-assessment
• Online automated feedback
Written feedback and grades for the factsheet and associated presentation will be given in a timely manner will be given at a group level. Written feedback for the individual case studies will also be given - outlining areas of excellence and areas for improvement MCQs will be assessed online, and feedback will be given through automatic marking
Name | Role |
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Professor Clare Corish | Lecturer / Co-Lecturer |
Ms Nicola Dervan | Lecturer / Co-Lecturer |
Assoc Professor Sharleen O'Reilly | Lecturer / Co-Lecturer |
Cathal O'Hara | Tutor |