Dietetics, MDiet (Hons)

Distinguish yourself in dietetics through our four-year integrated Masters programme, a full-time course designed to build expertise in practice, leadership, management, and research. It emphasizes inter-professional collaboration, enhancing clinical reasoning and critical thinking, while offering placements in diverse settings like paediatrics and mental health. Delivered by renowned academics, the programme includes supervised practice in each of the first three years and opportunities for interprofessional learning, module selection aligned to career goals, and development of coaching, mentoring, and leadership skills for emerging roles in sustainability, media, and private practice.The curriculum begins with foundational studies in psychosocial care, biochemistry, physiology, food science, and human nutrition, progressing to problem-based learning in clinical sciences, immunology, and pharmacology. In later years, you'll tackle complex patient cases, sustainable leadership, digital marketing, and research projects, culminating in a focus on malnutrition, long-term conditions, or sports nutrition. Approved by the Health and Care Professions Council and the British Dietetic Association, successful completion requires passing all placement competencies and theoretical components for professional registration.

In your first year, you will study psychosocial aspects of patient care, biochemistry, physiology, food science, and human nutrition to underpin modules in dietetics and applied nutrition in subsequent years. Sharing teaching with other health professions during part of the year helps you to understand the need for multi-professional working. You will learn how to critically appraise evidence and be introduced to the importance of public health nutrition. You will spend two weeks in your first supervised placement. In your second year, you will work on an integrated and innovative series of problem-based learning exercises to extend the depth and breadth of your knowledge in nutrition, dietetics and clinical sciences. An understanding of immunology and pharmacology will be developed. You will undertake 12 weeks of supervised clinical practice to enable you to develop the confidence and personal skills required to work as a dietitian. We will introduce you to the concepts of professional studies, providing learning opportunities for problem solving with other healthcare professionals. In your third year, you will develop skills to work with more complex patients and study emerging issues in clinical nutrition. An understanding of the principles of sustainable leadership, digital marketing and effective management skills will be embedded. You will work on an in-depth research project design in an area of personal interest related to dietetics or nutrition. Your final clinical placement will have a strong patient focus, emphasis being on professional mastery and fitness for practice required for employment and registration as a dietitian with the HCPC. In your final year you will focus on leadership and mentorship skills exploring innovations in healthcare so preparing you to be leaders of the future. You will undertake an individual supervised research project in an area of your choice. You will focus on the complexities and consequences of malnutrition in a range of clinical settings and have the opportunity to study either the management of long term conditions or applied sports nutrition. The modules shown for this course or programme are those being studied by current students, or expected new modules. Modules are subject to change depending on year of entry.