Aim and Content

Students shall work for two weeks in a healthcare institution, geriatric care department, health station, project or other place where preventive or curative healthcare takes place. They shall observe how work is carried out and how goals are met. Nutrition shall be a particular focus.

Learning Outcomes

Upon completing the course, the students are expected to know how a health institution works and how nutrition and preventive health care takes place in practice. Furthermore, the students must have acquired skills such as:

• carry out mapping and elaborate on a nutrition-related problems.
• formulate observations, reflections and results in the form of a written scientific thesis.
• use appropriate tools.

Competence:

evaluate nutrition's place in comprehensive, multidisciplinary health care

Course Unit Level

Bachelor

Pre-requirements

The candidate must be taking courses on the Bachelor's program in Human Nutrition or a corresponding equivalent.

Teaching Methods

Introduction to the subject. Placement. Reflection notes.

Compulsory Requirements

Work in a healthcare institution / department.

Assessment methods

Reflection notes

Grading Scale

Pass / fail.

Course Unit Evaluation

Written evaluation on My Space/Mi side