This topic will enhance students’ knowledge of evidence based nutrition and dietetic practice through focusing on the basic approaches to investigating nutritional health and diet-related disease states in individuals and populations, and the application of these in the field of nutrition and dietetics. After an introduction to basic methods of research in nutrition and dietetics, students will be provided with an opportunity to develop a research proposal as part of a group and then analyse a database of relevance to the research question, interpret the findings and present these in a form suitable for a scientific audience. The topic emphasises the individual and collective responsibilities of continuing education in professional practice.
This topic aims to:
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