About Program
One of the main factors for protection of health and maintain a good life is adequate and balanced nutrition. Nowadays where devolepment of nutrition programs are forefront; according to these devolepments, the requirements for well educated nutritionists are not limited to hospitals. Dietetics is one of the health professions in international profession classification, like Medical Sciences, Dentistry, Nursing and similar other professions.
Goals
The Department of Nutrition and Dietetics aims to identify public nutritional state; research nutrition levels, and recommend and implement strategies for improvement; determine and guide national food and nutrition plans and policies; establish the nutritional needs of various age groups; offer and implement special diets for diseases; and train the human power necessary to conduct scientific studies into areas such as the management and organization of enterprises offering mass nutrition services, and also to train the human power to inject an awareness of adequate and balanced eating for public health and treatment of illnesses.
Summary of Program Outcomes
Graduates are able to explain the concepts and relations between concepts about the nutrition and dietetics; Describe the diseases which are congenital and in after life and the solutions for these diseases. Classify national and international practices about Nutrition and Dietetics. Identify the relationship between food components and the chemical reactions of these components in cell.