Master of Applied Nutrition & Dietetics

This program is an introduction to nutrition as a health science that examines the nutrients essential to human life. The metabolic action, requirements, and nutrient food sources are studied along with the application of entrepreneurial skills. Needs and behavior patterns in children and adults are used to illustrate the relationship between diet and health.

Are you attracted to a career in nutrition? Whether you are interested in working in a hospital, with athletes, in private practice, research, or changing the world through food systems or public health initiatives, the Master of Nutrition and Dietetic Practice at Bond University is for you. The program includes an exceptional research internship program and a focus on global nutrition citizenship – all the while allowing you to complete practical internships in traditional areas of practice such as clinical dietetics.

Program Goals:

Students will:

1. Recognize the relationship between a healthful or unhealthful diet throughout the lifespan and the prevention and treatment of specific chronic diseases and premature death;
2. Identify valid and reliable sources of health information and evaluate research studies to apply concepts to one’s own life and/or career [Information Literacy];
3. Apply knowledge of the chemical composition of and metabolic functions of carbohydrates, lipids, proteins, vitamins, minerals, and water to the functions of the human body’s basic functions while in good health and while under stress of chronic illness [Scientific Literacy];
4. Examine the social and psychological variables that influence and are impacted by dietary intake, as well as ways personal food choices and food production affect human health and the environment; and
5. Accurately record one’s own dietary intake in a nutrient analysis program to assess nutritional status and make suggestions for improvement based on Program content.
6. Demonstrate how entrepreneurial skills can be applied to the field of nutrition & wellness.

Program outline:

• Medical tests
•  Food analysis tables
• Study nutritional methods
•  The Role of a Dietitian (1)
•  Estimate the patient’s nutritional needs
•  Nutritional care after operations (1)
• Nutrition in diseases (1)
•  Immune nutrition
•  Nutrition and childhood diseases
•  Weight control
• . Nutrition and digestive system diseases
•  Athlete Nutrition (1)
•  Methods for calculating nutritional energy requirements (1)