Certification course 
Pediatric Nutrition
Nutritional recommendations for pediatric patients change from day to day. Update your knowledge and improve your clinical practice.
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Duration 135 hours over 27 weeks Online modality
This program | This program aims to form health professionals with a specialized focus on the area of Pediatric Nutrition, by providing them with the latest information for managing the leading nutritional problems that impact both Mexico and other countries. The purpose is to contribute to the formation of competencies for comprehensive client/patient treatment in the area of pediatric nutrition with a holistic focus. Instructors are health professionals with expertise in each of the topics covered; they will provide participants with both theory and practice. Intended for people with degrees in Nutrition, physicians, pediatricians and health professionals interested in childhood nutrition. The requirement is to have professional formation in health and some knowledge of biochemistry, physiopathology and basic nutrition. |
Course content
- Nutritional assessment of children and adolescents
- Nutritional intervention in children and adolescents
- Nutritional counseling in pediatric patients
- Pathologies with high prevalence worldwide in pediatric stages
- Most common pathologies in the pediatric stage
- Common in-patient pathologies in the pediatric stage
- Neurological pathologies in the pediatric stage
By the end of the program | Participants will be capable of selecting and applying appropriate tools to evaluate the different pediatric stages, as well as possible health situations; they will learn how to properly assess, interpret and diagnose according to current international guidelines and references; plan nutritional interventions; monitor both sickness and health in the different pediatric stages; and apply sound criteria for analyzing reliable scientific documents. |
The experience of continuous education learning
Our educational proposal approaches learning as a process centered on the student, who constructs by:
Continuous updating
Experience a meaningful process, through updated programs that undergo ongoing improvement.
Transformative experience
Transform yourself to transform your environment.
Reflection - Action
Question, generate and practice new alternative solutions to today's challenges.
Collaboration
Enhance your process by building learning communities, networks and joint projects.
Accompaniment
Learn with experts who advise and guide you, and give you feedback throughout your process.
Global vision
Have an impact on your local reality by applying a global vision.
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