BMED19006  Clinical Dietetics

This course introduces the field of dietetics and nutritional assessment, and encourages the student to examine various disease states such as hypermetabolic conditions, inherited metabolic disorders, cardiovascular diseases, liver and kidney diseases, and certain paediatric disorders from an integrated dietary, biomechanical and medical perspective. The topics to be studied build on prior learning in the program in the areas of metabolic and clinical biochemistry, physiology and pharmacology.