Post-graduation in nutrition, endocrinology & management

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November 11, 2024
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Post-graduation in nutrition, endocrinology & management

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This postgraduate course is offered by the Academia Clínicas Espregueira and the Portuguese Catholic University through the ESB - Escola Superior de Biotecnologia and the CPBS - Católica Porto Business School and offers rigorous scientific training enriched with practical entrepreneurial skills designed for health professionals who want to embrace two universes of complementary skills - Nutrition and Endocrinology and Management.
The knowledge needed for success in real life crosses multiple areas of knowledge and requires interdisciplinary visions that transcend classic models. Combining nutrition with management and endocrinology allows us to focus on preventing the main causes of death in Western society from a perspective of biological individuality and with a context of entrepreneurial autonomy that is essential for professional success.
It is estimated that chronic non-communicable diseases affect around half of the Portuguese population, significantly affecting their quality of life and average life expectancy. Any solution has to be multifaceted, incorporate practices based on scientific evidence and work with each person holistically in order to guarantee results that last. Contributing to preparing participants for entrepreneurship in order to boost the creation of their own business is also a significant asset.
The main aim of this postgraduate course is to develop a comprehensive understanding of the interaction between nutrition and endocrinology, based on solid theoretical and theoretical-practical training that contributes to safe and effective practice in the face of people's biological and clinical individuality. The management component aims to equip clinicians with the necessary knowledge to manage their own practice, develop successful business models and communicate effectively with clients and other health professionals, contributing to their overall success and autonomy in the field.
The Postgraduate Diploma in Nutrition, Endocrinology & Management enables differentiation in an internationally accredited, interdisciplinary academic context of excellence.

Description

Areas of study

The program includes essential and advanced training in nutrition and endocrinology, including weight management and control of chronic non-communicable diseases (e.g. obesity, diabetes), the gut-brain axis, functional foods, community interventions and dietary xenobiotics. Management training will focus on the fundamentals of management, leadership and negotiation, financial accounting, marketing services and company and business evaluation, with the aim of promoting literacy and success in professional practice, in the context of an office and/or economic and business unit.

Graduates who wish to develop their research skills can go on to study for a master's degree, as this postgraduate course is equivalent to the teaching component of the ESB's Master's Degree in Biotechnology & Innovation.

Candidates

This training is aimed at nutritionists, doctors and other health professionals, as well as final-year students, subject to approval of applications by the postgraduate directors.

syllabus

Each curricular unit may include a theoretical component, theoretical-practical component, seminars and/or case studies.

Course Unit
Duration
ETCS
Responsible
Nutrition and metabolism: an integrated view
33h
7
José Camolas
(area coordinator)
Endocrinology & Nutrition
27h
5
Adriana Lages
Weight management and control
33h
7
Ana Goios
Fundamentals of Management
12h
2.5
Nuno Côrte Real
(area coordinator)
Leadership and Negotiation
12h
2.5
Rui Lourenço Gil
Financial Accounting
12h
2.5
Luís Abrantes
Services Marketing
12h
2.5
Susana Costa e Silva
Company and Business Valuation
12h
2.5
João Pinto
Advanced Nutrition Topics
42h
8
Marta Correia
(area coordinator)
Final Project
30h
5.5
Marta Correia, Nuno Côrte Real,
José Camolas
Total
225h
45

This unit aims to deepen and explore an integrated view of Nutrition and Metabolism, which will cover the following syllabus: Metabolism: overview and metabolism of macronutrients and micronutrients; Food & nutrition: life cycle and cardiovascular risk; Eating behavior & health; Eating patterns & health (including eating patterns, genetics, epigenetics and metabolomics and microbiota and nutritional status).

In this curricular unit, participants acquire and consolidate essential and practical knowledge for professional practice in the close relationship between endocrinology and nutrition. The syllabus includes: Endocrine axes throughout life (from childhood to puberty, hormonal adaptations in pregnancy and the puerperium and in ageing); Endocrine response to physical exercise: from physiology to maladaptive response; Thyroid pathology; Diabetes; Obesity and overweight (includes therapeutic approach to overweight: old & new); Food supplements & performance-enhancing substances (includes regulation, characterization of use and consequences of their use); Endocrine disruptors & health (includes conceptual model and translational impact on the overall health of the individual, impact during development and endocrine and metabolic consequences).

In this curricular unit, participants will acquire and consolidate essential and practical knowledge for weight management and control, which is crucial for the population's health and quality of life. The syllabus includes: Energy balance and weight loss (includes metabolic and behavioral changes during weight loss); Nutritional strategies for weight loss (includes Low carb vs. Low FatHigh-protein diets, Popular Diets, fad diets and dieting myths, the vegetarian dietary pattern); Weight loss: a look beyond diet (includes physical activity and exercise in weight loss, bariatric surgery, the role of sleep in weight management).

1. gut-brain axis
The microbiota-gut-brain axis is today considered an area of significant research interest and potential. This module will address the main metabolic pathways and the modulating action of diet, and others, on the gut microbiota, as a therapeutic measure to improve the health and well-being of the brain and possible applications in clinical practice.

2 Entrepreneurship in Nutrition
Participants acquire and consolidate essential, practical and structured knowledge to play leadership and negotiation roles in their teams, focused on gaining the skills needed to collaboratively solve the challenges of business development in the area of Nutrition in different business contexts.

3. case studies: Functional foods in health promotion
This module aims to deepen and explore the concept of functional food, its importance for health and present projects and practical cases, namely in improving the nutritional quality of food, optimizing and fortifying micronutrients, formulating new functional foods with a focus on promoting health by adding beneficial ingredients (probiotics, prebiotics, plant sterols, omega-3s, among others) or improving the quality of life of people with specific dietary needs by developing targeted modified foods (e.g. foods for lactose intolerants).

4 Designing community nutrition interventions
This module aims to deepen and explore the methodology inherent in each of the stages of developing a community intervention in the field of food and nutrition, with a focus on needs assessment, which is central to the development of an effective intervention, and on evaluating the impact of the intervention, a stage that is often difficult to achieve.

5.Dietary xenobiotics and metabolism: a guide to personalized nutrition and health promotion
This module aims to explore the relationship between the metabolism of xenobiotics, personalized nutrition and human health. Promote a comprehensive understanding of dietary xenobiotics and their impact on human health. Investigate the metabolic pathways involved in the biotransformation of dietary xenobiotics, explore their sources and evaluate their effects on health. Guide participants in designing personalized nutritional plans based on individual xenobiotic metabolism profiles, emphasizing the discussion of these concepts for health promotion and disease prevention.

Syllabus The concepts of money and currency. The value of money over time. The current value and future value of a capital and a group of capitals. Inflation and the real value of money. The functioning of markets in general. The credit market and the cost of money. The concept of opportunity cost. The concept, measurement and management of risk: an introduction. Risk and profitability: inseparable concepts.

In this curricular unit, participants will acquire and consolidate essential, practical and structured knowledge to perform leadership and negotiation in their teams. At the end of the course, participants will have the relevant knowledge to: foster engagement in employees, evaluating and promoting their development, establishing agreements and managing conflicts by considering alternatives for joint gain within a framework of collaborative resolution of challenges/problems.

Syllabus: Fundamental concepts. Objectives and users. Regulatory framework. Assets, flows and asset facts - Financial accounting vs. management accounting. Financial statements. Balance sheet. Income statement by nature and by function. Cash flow statement. Economic and Financial Analysis. Financial analysis methods and techniques. Financial structure, liquidity, profitability, activity and market ratios. CVR analysis: Critical sales point, safety margin and degrees of operational and financial risk.

Syllabus contents: The role of marketing and the value creation process. Strategic marketing planning. Consumer behavior and global markets. Defining, delivering and communicating value propositions. New marketing trends: digitalization, marketing automation, omnichannel and AI applied to marketing.

This course aims to develop the problem of analysis and evaluation (economic and financial) not only of investments in organizations, but also the evaluation of the companies themselves. In this way, it promotes the creation of a knowledge base that allows the perception and understanding of the main issues raised in the financial decision-making process, especially in the analysis and evaluation of investments, businesses and companies, as well as in the selection of available financing sources and instruments. Emphasis will be placed on illustrating how financial theory creates the appropriate framework for analyzing the investment and financing decision-making process within healthcare units. The syllabus covers the topics of financial decision-making, the investment appraisal process and the strategic and structural issues of financing decision-making.

This course aims to develop a Business Plan adapted to a specific case (theoretical or real) associated with the development of a business in the areas identified during this course.

Teaching and assessment model

The postgraduate course will be taught in accordance with the syllabus, training activities and objectives previously defined and publicized, and it is the responsibility of the promoters to guarantee all the pedagogical and logistical conditions for its proper functioning.

The postgraduate course will have a total duration of 225 hours of online training. The training sessions will take place weekly, on Monday and Wednesday afternoons from 7pm to 10pm (some sessions may also be scheduled at other times, previously agreed with the trainees).

There is a minimum attendance requirement of no less than 75% of the total hours of classes taught in each of the nine modules. Attendance requires attendance online, live and with the obligation to have and keep the camera on. Failure to comply with this minimum attendance rate will, in principle, result in the module not being passed.

The assessment of knowledge is individual and is carried out separately for each module. It covers the students' performance during the course and at the end of the course. Grades will be awarded on a scale of zero to twenty.

The final grade obtained in the Postgraduate course is expressed on a quantitative scale of 0 to 20 points and will be calculated using the following weighting: Teaching Part - 80% + Final Work 20%.

Students who complete the Postgraduate course are awarded a Postgraduate Diploma in Nutrition, Endocrinology and Management.

Tuition fees

The value of fees, tuition and other emoluments is set annually and published in a specific document (Table of fees and emoluments), so the values to be practiced in subsequent academic years may change.

Fees
Application
50€
Fees and other emoluments
Monthly Tuition - 12 Tuition Fees
325€
Total Value
3.900€*

* A 10% discount on tuition fees (non-cumulative) is available for former students who have successfully completed training at Academia Clínica Espregueira. A discount of 10% will be applied to tuition fees (non-cumulative) for former students who have completed a degree course (bachelor's, master's or doctorate) or other training of more than 200 hours (MBA, General Management Course and other postgraduate courses of this duration) at the Universidade Católica Portuguesa.

The application will only be considered valid once proof of payment of the relevant fee has been provided.

The first monthly fee is due upon enrollment. The application fee is non-refundable under any circumstances, even if the student cancels their enrolment before starting the course.

Coordination

José Camolas, Marta Correia and Nuno Côrte-Real


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Faculty

Adianana
Adriana Lages
Scientific-pedagogical coordinator of UC Endocrinology & Nutrition
Ana Goios
Ana Goios
Scientific-pedagogical coordinator of UC Weight Management and Control
Joaooo
João Pinto
Scientific-pedagogical coordinator of UC - Evaluation of Companies and Businesses
José Camolas Current
José Camolas
Co-coordinator of the Postgraduate Program in Nutrition, Endocrinology and Nutrition and scientific-pedagogical coordinator of the UC Nutrition and metabolisms: an integrated vision
Luuis
Luís Abrantes
Scientific-pedagogical coordinator of the UC - Financial Accounting
Maaarta
Marta Correia
Co-coordinator of the Postgraduate Program in Nutrition, Endocrinology and Nutrition and scientific-pedagogical coordinator of the UC - Advanced Topics in Nutrition.
Nuno
Nuno Côrte-Real
Co-coordinator of the Post-Graduation in Nutrition, Endocrinology and Nutrition and scientific-pedagogical coordinator of the UC - Fundamentals of Management
Ruuui
Rui Lourenço Gil
Scientific-pedagogical coordinator of the UC - Leadership and Negotiation
Suuusana
Susana Costa e Silva
Scientific-pedagogical coordinator of the UC - Services Marketing

FAQ's

Starts November 11, 2024.

Classes on Mondays and Wednesdays from 19:00 to 22:00.

Students should send their application and proof of payment of the application fee to [email protected]

Candidate Documents:

  1. Copy of Citizen Card or Identity Card/Taxpayer Card
  2. Full address.
  3. E-mail.
  4. Phone.
  5. Qualification certificate.
  6. Curriculum vitae.

- Monthly tuition fee - 12 monthly payments of 325€ (3900€)

A 10% discount on tuition fees (non-cumulative) for former students who have successfully completed training at Academia Clínicas Espregueira. A discount of 10% on tuition fees (non-cumulative) will be applied to former students who have completed a degree course (bachelor's, master's or doctorate) or other training of more than 200 hours (MBA, General Management Course and other postgraduate courses of this duration) at the Portuguese Catholic University.

- Monthly fee - 12 monthly payments of 292.50€ (3510€) - Applies to Alumni who meet the requirements described above.

Monthly fee (12 interest-free monthly installments)

This training is aimed at nutritionists, doctors and other health professionals, as well as final-year students, subject to approval of applications by the postgraduate directors.

Fees and Emoluments
Admission Fee:

50,00 

Note: The application fee must be paid at the time of submission. Proof of payment must accompany the submission of the application via email. [email protected]. Failure to pay the application fee will result in exclusion from the selection process. Withdrawal or rejection during the selection process does not entitle the applicant to a refund.

WHAT DOES THIS COURSE INCLUDE?

  Access to the culture of academic, scientific and clinical excellence offered by the partnership established between the Portuguese Catholic University through the ESB - Escola Superior de Biotecnologia and the CPBS - Católica Porto Business School and the Academia Clínicas Espregueira
  225 hours of classes with the most renowned Professionals and Academics
  Possibility of viewing recordings - 24/7
  A unique opportunity in the university context for those who want to specialize in nutrition and endocrinology and develop skills to manage their offices and/or business units
  Completion of the Postgraduate Diploma in Nutrition, Endocrinology & Management guarantees the award of a diploma from the three institutions
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