The emergence of dietitian profession is to meet the needs of social health. Nutritionist is a comprehensive profession, which combines the characteristics of chefs, health professionals, medical practitioners, practitioners of Chinese medicine, psychologists, marketers and administrators.
They are not only experts in food, but also experts in nutrition detection, nutrition fortification, nutrition evaluation and other fields to help people get healthy. The professional requirement of dietitians is to focus on health professional services.
The nutritionist introduced as follows:
Cultivation can evaluate, manage and guide human nutritional status and dietary nutrition; Carry out dietary nutrition guidance to prevent common diseases and chronic diseases related to nutrition; Application-oriented higher vocational and technical personnel with the ability of investigation and analysis of dietary nutrition status and development, design and evaluation of nutritious food.
Main courses: Basic Chinese Medicine, Anatomy Physiology, Pathology, Chinese Medicine, Prescription, Pharmacology, Basic Nutrition, Western Medicine, Western Surgery, Food Microbiology, Food Toxicology, Food Hygiene, Basic Cooking, Clinical Nutrition, Chinese Medicine and Nutrition, Hygiene Regulations and Supervision, etc.
Employment orientation: I am competent in the evaluation, management and guidance of dietary nutrition, as well as in the teaching, scientific research, food hygiene supervision and inspection, nutrition consultation and other aspects of medical and health units at all levels, food hygiene supervision institutions at all levels, public canteens of various catering industries and food processing and circulation enterprises.
People with nutritionist certificates can engage in food inspection, quality management, food quality analysis, health supervision, nutritional therapy and health care. Nutritionist graduates can engage in food inspection, quality management, food quality analysis, health supervision, nutrition treatment and health care, nutrition education, catering management, food marketing and trade.
Nutritionists are also divided into clinical nutritionists (chronic disease adjusters), food nutritionists, sports nutritionists, catering nutritionists, medicated diet nutritionists, children nutritionists, maternal and infant nutritionists and so on.