The main courses of medical nutrition specialty are: basic Chinese medicine, anatomical physiology, pathology and pathophysiology, Chinese medicine, prescription, pharmacology, basic nutrition, internal medicine of western medicine, surgery of western medicine, food microbiology, food toxicology, food hygiene, cooking foundation, clinical nutrition, traditional Chinese medicine nutrition, health regulations and supervision, food additives, preventive medicine, diagnosis of traditional Chinese medicine, immunology foundation, maternal and child health care, etc.

Training objectives of medical nutrition specialty: high-end skilled medical nutrition talents who have the basic theories, knowledge and skills of nutrition, food hygiene and clinical medicine, can evaluate, manage and guide human nutrition status and dietary nutrition, can carry out prevention, clinical nutrition treatment and nutrition management of nutrition-related diseases in hospitals, and can engage in the marketing of formula food and functional food for special medical purposes.