Technician in Dietetics

About

This post-compulsory program trains students to prepare diets, control the quality of people’s food, analyse eating behaviours and schedule and apply educational activities to improve people’s eating habits.

The duration is 2,000 hours (1,590 in class and 410 in internships) divided in two academic years.

Access

People having some of the following requirements can access directly to the program:

• Have the high school diploma or equivalent
• Have a Vocational Education and Training diploma (VET) or a Certificate of Higher Education (HNC)
• Professional or technical specialist
• Have any Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent
• Having passed the university entrance test for over 25 years

People not having any of the aforementioned requirements must pass an entrance test. In order to apply, it is necessary be aged 19 years old or turn 19 during the year in which the test will take place.

Objectives

The Technician in Dietetics training is based on the following competences:

• The elaboration and supervision of adapted diets for persons and groups according to their nutritional needs.
• The elaboration and supervision of adapted diets for patients and groups according to their specific pathologies.
• The control and supervision of the qualitative composition of foods, to determine its hygienic and dietetic quality.
• The supervision of preservation, handling and transformation of foods.
• The promotion of people’s and the community health through activities that promote good eating habits.
• Analyse persons and groups dietary needs.
• Identify physiological, pathological and socio-cultural characteristics for dietary specifications and interpret anthropometric and clinical data of the prescription and medical record.
• Detect preferences, possibilities and other information having an impact on the diet monitoring and relate all the information obtained through baseline dietary and nutritional parameters to elaborate and adapt diets and follow up.
• Interpret the data of the prescription, the dietary record and foods and nutritional tables, calculate the necessary energy requirements and determine the type and quantity of foods that can be eaten, its distribution and the way of cooking, as well as schedule the dietary monitoring in order to respond to the dietary needs of persons or groups.
• Control the processes of preservation, handling and transformation of foods, identify its physicochemical and organoleptic characteristics, and relate the systems and conditions of preservation, packaging, storage, preparation and cooking with the critical points and control procedures.
• Interpret the applicable regulations in each case, detect alterations in processes and products and propose corrective measures to verify the hygienic and dietary quality of food for human consumption.

Modules

M1 Organization and management of work in the Dietetics Unit/Cabinet (60 hours)
M2: Balanced nutrition (270 hours)
M3: Diet therapy (240 hours)
M4: Food control (180 hours)
M5: Microbiology and food hygiene (180 hours)
M6: Health education and promotion (90 hours)
M7: Pathophysiology in dietetics (240 hours)
M8: Relationships within the work team (60 hours)
M9: Professional training and career guidance (60 hours)
M10: Internships (410 hours)
M11: Synthesis (60 hours)
M12: Kitchens workshop (45 hours)
M13: Sports nutrition (45 hours)
M14: Psychology in dietetics (60 hours)

Career opportunities

Pre-registration

Pre-enrollment: from 1^st February to 30^th June, 2022
Enrollment: from 18^th July to 22th July, 2022*

*Waiting for official dates from the Education’s Department.

We remind you that the booking of a place will only be understood to have been made once the payment of 250,00 € has been validated, which must be made to the account number that you will find specified in the last section of the pre-enrollment form. It is very important that once you do the bank transfer, you write the name and surname of the student and the name of the formative cycle to which he/she is pre-registering.

The confirmation of place, which will be made via email, will be communicated from the date of the end of the pre-enrollment period (30th June), based on the date of pre-enrollment and payment and according to the criteria set out above. Exceptions will be made for students placed in third preference for admission to higher education, who will receive confirmation of their place the last week of July.

For any doubt, you can contact us by:

• Web: www.euses.cat
• Telephone: 972 405 130
• WhatsApp: 646 79 67 37
• Mail: ciclesformatius@euses.cat / promocio@euses.cat