To train Masters in Clinical Nutrition, with a solid academic preparation, critical thinking and social and ethical commitment, which will allow them to make decisions based on scientific evidence for nutritional intervention, contributing to the improvement of the health status of the population.

In 2023, the Master's Degree in Clinical Nutrition will be a program of excellence with a high acceptance within society, recognized for its quality, supported by Academic Bodies that develop lines of generation and application of cutting-edge knowledge, which allows having graduates who are leaders in the field of nutrition and in the health teams in which they are integrated, for the evaluation, prevention, diagnosis and timely treatment of pathologies that impact the nutritional status.

Objectives

1. To provide students with a solid preparation that will allow them to develop, adapt and generate individual and population interventions either in ambulatory or hospitalized patients, with a real impact on nutritional status and thus on health from the practice of evidence-based nutrition.


2. To develop in the student skills, supported by knowledge and attitudes that allow the search, understanding and analysis of scientific information, to support timely nutritional interventions.


3. To develop students' skills in the interpretation of information for nutritional intervention, based on scientific evidence and appropriate for individual or population, ambulatory or hospital patients, in a multidisciplinary manner.


4. To develop in the student oral and written communication skills, for the dissemination of results obtained in intervention projects, through writing articles in journals and participating in discussion groups and academic events.

The Master's Degree in Clinical Nutrition will be supported by the Academic Bodies (AC) of the Academic Area of Nutrition, the LGAC they cultivate are:

• Clinical Nutrition and Chronic Non-Communicable Diseases, belonging to the CA of Nutrition, which is created from the premise of the growing interest in the etiology of Chronic Non-Communicable Diseases is given by the increase in life expectancy, its association with mortality, and the high cost to the health system of any nation to face an entity with a high morbidity and mortality. For this reason, the identification of risk factors associated with pathologies such as metabolic syndrome, frailty and eating disorders is fundamental for their prevention and treatment, the pillars of which are diet therapy, physical activity, modification of attitudes towards food and the strengthening of healthy eating habits.
• Study of Environmental and Molecular Factors Associated with Malnutrition and Chronic Non-Communicable Diseases, belonging to the CA of Nutritional and Molecular Epidemiology, which aims to evaluate environmental factors such as diet, physical activity and functional effect of food and its components, as well as genetic and molecular markers related to poor nutrition and chronic non-communicable diseases, in order to provide new scientific evidence to provide alternatives for care and prevention based on the individual characteristics of the subjects, such as their lifestyle and genome, which together impact the health and welfare of the populations to which they belong.