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0Endorsed by BSG

Endorsed Event: The Leeds Course in Clinical Nutrition

04-09-2024 @ 09:00 - 06-09-2024 @ 16:30

Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences, University of Leeds, Woodhouse Lane, Leeds, LS2 9JT

We are delighted to endorse the Leeds Course in Clinical Nutrition. This course is specifically designed to provide a thorough grounding in all aspects of clinical nutrition.  It is aimed at all professions with an interest in Clinical Nutrition and will appeal to clinicians, dietitians, doctors, hospitals pharmacists, nursing staff and others with interest in patient nutrition.

The course will:
  • summarise national nutrition drivers to provide a foundation for the course
  • increase awareness of nutritional compromise and its consequences; give practical guidance on assessment of patients, and discuss particular patient groups (surgical patients, those with irritable bowel syndrome, renal disease, eating disorders and liver disease)
  • discuss practicalities of feeding in terms of ethics, different methods of feeding and understand more about different techniques to give artificial nutrition
  • establish principles of nutritional importance in extreme clinical situations (short bowel syndrome, refeeding syndrome, parenteral nutrition)
This course has been approved for 18 category 1 (external) CPD credit(s).

Fees
Standard fee: £775
NHS/academic/BSG member fee: £595

Contact
clinicalnutrition@leeds.ac.uk 

Read the agenda and register your place.