Department of Nephrology and Nutrition & Dietetics, Sri Devaraj Urs Medical College

• Integrated B.Sc - M.Sc Clinical Nutrition and Dietetics is a combination of 2 programmes (Undergraduate and Post graduate program). An Integrated degree would give a candidate a PG degree in 5 years saving one year. It is a comprehensive entity.
• Integrated B.Sc - M.Sc Clinical Nutrition and Dietetics is designed to cover multidisciplinary perspectives, encouraging depth and breadth in understanding complex issues at each level, without any repetition of the course contents. It enhances student’s engagement through experiential and active learning, which supports an integrated course capacity to address the challenges posed by increasingly complex world of today. This is achieved through a blend of academics, research training and extension as well as therapeutic applications The PG program in this discipline has been designed to provide the students intensive and extensive theoretical and experiential training. The program allows flexibility in the choice of thrust areas, which students can select, based on their career goals.
• This course provides various Specialized Areas in Clinical Nutrition such as Clinical Nutritionists, Management Nutritionists, Consultant Nutritionists, Specialized Nutritionists in the fields such as Renal Nutritionists, Cardio-Nutritionists, Endocrine Nutritionists, Critical Care Nutritionists, etc.
• Clinical Dietitians are specialists in food nutrition services in hospitals, outpatient clinics, and private practices. They assess patient nutrition, develop dietary plans, provide patient counselling, and monitor patient’s progress.
• Management Dietitians specialize in food service systems or clinical management. They work in hospitals, nursing homes, school food service, cafeterias, and restaurants. They manage personnel, plan and conduct employee training programme, design food systems, and plan budgets.
• Consultant Dietitians are independent business people who work as nursing home consultants, book authors, and patient counselors in medical centers and fitness programme. They also develop and evaluate food service systems and serve as independent advisors to industry.

Mission:
• To impart and improve nutritional knowledge and enhance skill based training.
• To develop a band of young scientists, nutrition health care professionals, research fellows, well trained personnel in the field of Clinical Nutrition and Dietetics.
• To inculcate passion for scientific research and nurture skills to carry out research in the field of Clinical Nutrition and Dietetics.
• To monitor and evaluate nutrition policies and programs.

Vision:
Creating Knowledge and skills in Clinical Nutrition and Dietetics and enable practical application of Nutrition knowledge for the enhancement of Nutritional status and Quality of life of the people