The Leeds course in Clinical Nutrition

The Leeds course in Clinical Nutrition

The Leeds course in Clinical Nutrition, now in its 32nd  year, has been restructured and developed to be more clinically focused and include interactive workshops with practical elements following our delegates' feedback over past years. The course will now run over 3 full days instead of 3 days over 4, again this is in response to our previous delegates feedback and training requirements.

Course aims and objectives:

The course is specifically designed to provide a thorough grounding in all aspects of clinical nutrition and

• Summarise national nutrition drivers to provide a foundation for the course.
• Increase awareness of nutritional compromise and its consequences; give practical guidance on assessment of patients, and discuss particular patient groups (surgical patients, those with irritable bowel syndrome, renal disease, eating disorders and liver disease).
• Discuss practicalities of feeding in terms of ethics, different methods of feeding and understand more about different techniques to give artificial nutrition.
• Examine the value of nutrition for paediatric patients (early diet and consequences, metabolic problems, Crohn's and parenteral nutrition).
• Establish principles of nutritional importance in extreme clinical situations (short bowel syndrome, refeeding syndrome, parenteral nutrition).

Who should attend?

The Leeds course in Clinical Nutrition is aimed at all professions with an interest in Clinical Nutrition and will appeal to clinicians, dietitians, doctors, hospitals pharmacists, nursing staff and others with interest in patient nutrition. The course is particularly suitable for SpRs (Specialist Registrars) as it is now mandatory to attend a clinical nutrition course.