Gaining knowledge about nutrition research and guidelines can enhance health care professionals’ ability to treat patients. While nutrition isn’t typically a required part of medical education, it remains a vital tool in comprehensive health care.
This certificate offers you an in-depth review of evidence-based nutrition research. You’ll complete the program prepared to discuss diet therapies, supplement use, functional food usage and more with your patients or clients.
What skills will I gain from completing this certificate?
Through your coursework, you’ll learn about the role of nutrition in health maintenance, the treatment of disease and disease prevention. You’ll also be equipped to implement nutritional assessment techniques.
Transferable skills you can immediately put into practice include:
- Collaborating with registered dietitians to provide medical nutrition therapy as part of a patient care team.
- Evaluating patients’ diets and nutritional statuses.
- Interpreting research evidence for the most accurate, current, general and disease-specific nutritional information and recommendations.
- Proficiency in basic nutritional sciences.
- Using patient information to craft individual nutrition management plans focused on optimal health and risk factor reduction.
Who is a good candidate for this medical nutrition certificate?
This certificate program is an ideal fit for students on a variety of academic and career paths. Building a critical eye for nutrition literature and learning how to talk to patients about the impact of diet and health can benefit:
- Medical residents.
- Post-baccalaureate students planning to enter a health career.
- Practicing doctors and nurses.
- Those pursuing professional programs in medicine, dentistry, pharmacy, physical therapy and more.
By contrast, this certificate isn’t suitable for someone who wants to become a registered dietitian (RD), dietician nutritionist (RDN) or those working in health care administration roles.
Do you work in clinical health care and have a passion for nutrition? Gain the skills and confidence needed to provide nutritional recommendations to patients with a graduate certificate in medical nutrition. Whether you’re a practicing clinician or plan to pursue a career in medicine, this certificate will enable you to provide inclusive care.
Courses delve into both the prevention and treatment of disease through medical nutrition. You’ll learn about an array of topics, such as the components of therapeutic diets, nutrition across the lifespan, nutrition as a tool to manage chronic diseases, nutrigenomics and more. Courses may include:
The College of Health Solutions faculty displays a high level of research expertise, focused on creating a better future for all. Our faculty are lifelong learners dedicated to improving health outcomes for the communities we serve. Some of their research focuses on:
- Discovering the impact of the environment and policy on food security and community health.
- Exploring mechanisms involved in the development of diabetes and cardiovascular disease.
- Harnessing big data to improve patient outcomes.
- Incorporating advanced technology to monitor and promote healthy lifestyles.
- Using state-of-the-art cognitive, behavioral and neuroscience techniques to study the components of human communication.
In the College of Health Solutions, students learn and prepare to become the health workforce of the future. Faculty and students also collaborate to research solutions to pressing global health challenges. Partnerships with the medical community offer students access to professional resources and networking opportunities with Mayo Clinic, Banner Health, HonorHealth, Dignity Health and more.
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Applicants to the medical nutrition graduate certificate must fulfill the requirements of both the Graduate College and the College of Health Solutions.
Applicants must have a minimum of a 3.00 cumulative GPA in the last 60 hours of their bachelor's program. Alternatively, applicants must have a minimum of a 3.00 cumulative GPA in an applicable master's program.
All applicants must submit:
- Graduate admission application and application fee.
- Official transcripts.
- One academic reference.*
- Personal statement.**
- Up-to-date curriculum vitae or resume.
*You must provide the contact information for one academic reference, such as a professor or instructor. Your reference will receive an email asking them to respond to a series of questions about you.
**Your personal statement should include the following:
- Describe why you’re interested in pursuing this certificate and how it will impact your professional goals.
- Explain how your strengths and weaknesses will influence your performance in the program.
- An applicant whose native language is not English (regardless of current residency) must provide proof of English proficiency.
- Before starting the program, applicants are expected to have completed courses in introductory nutrition (NTR 100, NTR 241 or equivalent) and physiology (BIO 160, BIO 202 or equivalent).
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