MSc Dietetics (Pre-registration)
Manchester, United Kingdom
DURATION
2 Years
LANGUAGES
English
PACE
Full time
APPLICATION DEADLINE
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EARLIEST START DATE
Jan 2025
TUITION FEES
EUR 20,500 / per year
STUDY FORMAT
On-Campus
Introduction
Through this two-year course, you’ll develop the skills and knowledge to work as a dietitian, delivering therapeutic nutrition in both public and private sector organisations.
You’ll study the nutrition and health of the population, exploring topics from lifespan nutrition to diet therapy and human metabolism to common chronic diseases, and their management, and how these change over the life course. You’ll also have sessions in our laboratories where you’ll complete practical evaluations.
You’ll combine theory and practical sessions so that, when you graduate, you’re prepared to practise as a dietitian across health and food sectors.
Features and Benefits
- Practical experience - On this course, you’ll spend at least 1,000 hours on placements to develop your practical skills and gain exposure to different healthcare settings.
- Industry-standard facilities - You will benefit from our purpose-built nutrition facilities where you’ll have the opportunity to use development kitchens, food biochemistry and physiology laboratories, and our 10-booth sensory taste panel suite, as well as the simulation suites.
- Teaching Excellence - You will be taught by research-active staff who have the necessary clinical experience to deliver teaching excellence.
- Government bursary - If you want to become a dietitian and live in the UK you can apply for a grant of £5,000 for each year you study. The grant does not need to be paid back and is available for postgraduate courses. There are some rules about who can apply. Full information is on the government website.
- The University - You’ll study in a vibrant, diverse and cosmopolitan city and join a community of over 34,000 students. You will have access to a state-of-the-art library and IT services, world-class sporting facilities, and access to student support and career services.
Admissions
Curriculum
Course information
Our MSc (Pre-Registration) Dietetics course aims to provide you with an in-depth understanding of the relationships between diet, disease and health.
It’s designed to give you the skills, knowledge and confidence, so that you can develop a career as a professional dietician in both the health and food sectors.
You’ll have days with a mix of lectures, seminars and practical sessions so that you develop technical skills as well as academic knowledge of food science.
You’ll consider the impact of genetics, physiology and anatomy, pharmacology and immunology, and how these specialities are related to dietetics.
You’ll combine the knowledge gained in nutritional epidemiology and apply it to real life issues that are affecting populations both in the UK and worldwide. This helps to develop the communication and skills you’ll need to promote a healthy nutrition.
Year 1
Core Modules
- Clinical Medicine
- Molecular Nutrition and Biochemistry
- Therapeutic Dietetics
- Work-Ready Dietitian
- Clinical dietetics
- Clinical Practice-Based Learning (PBL) 1
- Dissertation With Research Methods
Year 2
Please note: Work-Ready Dietitian and the Dissertation units will be studied in both Year 1 and Year 2.
Core Modules
- Public Health Nutrition
- Clinical Practice-Based Learning (PBL) 2
- Nutritional Epidemiology
- Chronic disease management
Program Tuition Fee
Career Opportunities
Career prospects
From nutrition-related roles within government organisations to working in the media; from food industry to research and development, there’s a variety of career paths you could take as a dietitian.
You may decide to work in a healthcare setting or perhaps work in sport sector or even develop your career within health education. Becoming a dietitian can open up a variety of different careers to you.
Program delivery
Study
- Full-time 30% lectures, seminars or similar; 40% placement; 30% independent study
Assessment
- Full-time 95% coursework; 0% practical; 5% examination
Program Admission Requirements
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