Transversal Competences

• CT1 : Read and understand texts in a foreign language.
• CT2 : Show computer and information system skills and abilities.
• CT3 : Show oral and written communication skills.

General Competences

• CG26 : Apply Food and Nutritional Sciences to dietary practice.
• CG27 : Understand nutrients, their functions and metabolic use.
• CG28 : Understand the basics of nutritional balance and its control.
• CG29 : Evaluate and calculate nutritional requirements in situations of sickness and health at any stage of the life cycle.
• CG30 : Identify the foundations of healthy eating (sufficient, balanced, varied and tailored).
• CG31 : Take part in designing total diet studies.
• CG32 : Understand, detect early and evaluate quantitative and qualitative deviations of nutritional balance due to excess or deficiency.
• CG33 : Plan, implement and interpret the evaluation of the nutritional status of individuals and/or groups, both healthy (in all physiological situations) and ill.
• CG34 : Understand the physiopathological illnesses related to nutrition.
• CG35 : Identify the dietary-nutritional problems of patients, as well as risk factors and inappropriate practices.
• CG36 : Prepare and interpret the dietary history of healthy and ill individuals.
• CG37 : Interpret a medical history.
• CG38 : Understand and use the terminology used in the health sciences field.
• CG39 : Interpret and integrate clinical, biochemical and pharmacological data in the nutritional assessment of the patient and his/her dietary-nutritional treatment.
• CG40 : Apply the foundations of clinical nutrition to diet therapy.
• CG41 : Plan, implant and evaluate therapeutic diets for individuals and/or groups.
• CG42 : Understand hospital organisation and various stages of the food service.
• CG43 : Participate in the multidisciplinary team of a Hospital Nutrition Unit.
• CG44 : Understand the different techniques and products used for basic and advanced nutritional support.
• CG45 : Develop and implement dietetic-nutritional transition plans.
• CG46 : Plan and implement dietetic-nutritional education programmes with sick and healthy subjects.
• CG47 : Understand clinical pharmacology and the interaction between medicines and nutrients.
• CG48 : Master the basic ITC tools used in the field of Food, Nutrition and Dietetics.
• CG49 : Understand the legal and ethical limits of dietetic practice.
• CG50 : Prescribe specific treatment corresponding to the area of competence of the dietetist-nutritionist.
• CG51 : Be able to demonstrate the scientific principles underpinning the intervention of the dietetist-/nutritionist, with their professional activity conditional on the scientific evidence.

Specific Competences

• E49 : Identify and discriminate the different eating behaviour disorders at clinical-diagnostic level.
• E50 : Identify the variables related to eating behaviour disorders from an integrating bio-psycho-social viewpoint.
• E51 : Acquire the psychological knowledge needed to act precisely and reliably in the multidisciplinary prevention, detection, evaluation, diagnosis and treatment of eating disorders.
• E52 : Adquirir la formació bàsica per a l'activitat investigadora sent capaces de formular hipòtesis, arreplegar i interpretar la informació per a la resolució de problemes seguint el mètode científic, i comprenent la importància i les limitacions del pensament científic en matèria sanitària i nutricional. Comprendre i utilitzar la terminologia emprada en ciències de la salut.