Nutrition for Healthcare Professionals

The Nutrition for Health Care Professionals Program (NHCP) is a professional diploma designed for health care professionals and is delivered by the ESS department at the AUC. Upon completion of this program, participants earn an AUC-ESS specialization certificate.

The Aim of the Program

• Use the nutritional sciences to prevent the diseases and promote health among the community members.
• Efficiently communicate with the physicians to help in nutritional management of different scopes of diseases
• Further participate in activities related to nutritional sciences to serve the community members in health and disease
• Think creatively and innovatively, with individual initiative and ability to work in a team
• Undergo fruitful nutritionist- physician interaction to ensure correct decision making

The Program Specs and Outlines

It is composed of five courses coded by NHCP 001-5, each of which comprises not less than forty five hours. The last two courses include hospital visits supervised by faculty staff. The participants will be granted the certificate after passing the evaluation of the six courses. Evaluation of the participants is undergone through group assignments, debates and set of exams in the form of case studies, multiple choice questions and essay questions.

The Curriculum is guided by the following Benchmarks curricula:

• Masters of Public Health Nutrition at South Hampton University
• Texas Woman University Master degree
• Utah State University Master of Science in Nutrition
• Master of Clinical Nutrition at Faculty of Medicine, Ain Shams University