Transversal Competences

• CT1 : Leer y comprender textos en un idioma extranjero.
• CT2 : Demostrar destrezas y habilidades en informática y sistemas informacionales.
• CT3 : Demostrar habilidades en comunicación oral y escrita.

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 : Identificar, desde una perspectiva biopsicosocial integradora, las variables relacionadas con los trastornos del comportamiento alimentario.
• E50 : Disponer de los conocimientos psicológicos necesarios para actuar de forma precisa y fiable en la prevención, detección, valoración, diagnóstico y tratamiento multidisciplinar de los trastornos del comportamiento alimentario.
• E51 : Desarrollar una visión empática y receptiva con el paciente y su entorno a la hora de abordar el tratamiento de posibles desórdenes alimentarios.
• E52 : Adquirir la formación básica para la actividad investigadora siendo capaces de formular hipótesis, recoger e interpretar la información para la resolución de problemas siguiendo el método científico, y comprendiendo la importancia y las limitaciones del pensamiento científico en materia sanitaria y nutricional. Comprender y utilizar la terminología empleada en ciencias de la salud.