Program Learning Outcomes for Master of Health Science in Applied Clinical Nutrition:

Within their discipline’s scope of practice, health care and wellness professionals who successfully complete the Master of Health Science in Applied Clinical Nutrition program will be able to:

1. Perform a competent nutritional assessment and create a patient-centered nutrition care plan based on sound nutrition principles, scientific evidence, and biomedical reasoning.
2. Critically appraise nutrition-related literature and apply this information to the practice of clinical nutrition and evaluate the reliability and validity of patient directed materials and create effective patient nutrition materials based on current, accurate and scientifically-supported evidence.
3. Provide competent and reliable nutritional consultations and demonstrate professional written and oral communication skills as appropriate to the practice of applied clinical nutrition.
4. Understand the value of a personal professional development and the role of life-long learning in a professional career, as well as their role in lifelong contribution to the body of knowledge in their field, including but not limited to the ability to produce scholarship worthy of publication in peer-reviewed journals.