The Nutrition and Dietetics program of the María Cano University Foundation seeks to train upright and comprehensive professionals, ethical, leaders, autonomous, with critical thinking, social commitment and glocal vision, expressed in the ability to improve food and nutritional problems in the region, the country and the world, based on evidence, innovation and entrepreneurship; with high standards of technical and human quality.
Nutrition and Dietetics Medellín
Ungraduate Nutrition and Dietetics Medellín
Undergraduate Nutrition and Dietetics
Title awarded: Dietitian Nutritionist
Face-to-face modality
Snies: Medellín:111556
Qualified registration: Resolution 009370 of June 7, 2023
Validity: 7 years
Value 2024: $8.779.070 per semester
City: Medellin
Duration: ten semesters
Number of program credits: 169
Admission frequency: semester
Addressed to:
Bachelors or their equivalent abroad who have taken the State exam for admission to Higher Education. People who express their interest in health sciences, nutrition and the study of it.
Professional profile
The Nutrition and Dietetics professional graduated from María Cano will be characterized by being a citizen with an ethical, responsible and reflective attitude towards the consequences and incidents of their professional actions; leader in the implementation of actions that promote the defense of the human right to adequate food and nutrition of individuals and communities, especially the elderly and people with disabilities; with a high capacity for resilience and interdisciplinary, transdisciplinary and team work; good command of a second language, technological knowledge and attitude towards innovation and entrepreneurship. They will have skills and competencies to understand nutrition and its relationship with states of health and well-being together with its determinants as dynamic processes that define the nutritional and development status of people or groups of people, enabling them to be and be part of a interdisciplinary team in professional performance scenarios such as health, education, work, community, academic and research; where the use of technology and the processes of inclusion and social transformation transversalize their work.
Occupational profile
The Dietitian Nutritionist of the María Cano University Foundation will be a professional with sufficient skills, abilities and attitudes to identify the nutritional needs of the population, evaluate the nutritional status of people according to the course of life and make the appropriate recommendations for the individuals and communities. May work in the field of collective catering services, provide comprehensive care to the population, especially vulnerable groups such as pregnant women, lactating women, children under 6 years of age, the elderly and people with disabilities; through the promotion of healthy eating habits and lifestyles. In addition, it focuses on the therapeutic diet and nutritional treatment of patients with chronic health conditions such as obesity, diabetes, arterial hypertension, dyslipidemia, and renal failure, among others.
Curriculum
Study plan
Semester
Credits
Mathematics I | 2 |
Communication skills | 2 |
Epistemology | 2 |
Chair Maria Cano | 2 |
Introduction to health | 2 |
Morphophysiology I | 3 |
Human development | 2 |
Introduction to nutrition | 1 |
Biology and microbiology | 2 |
TOTAL | 18 |
Credits 18
Credits
Mathematics II | 2 |
ICT management | 2 |
Critical reading | 2 |
Developmental psychology | 2 |
Biochemistry I | 3 |
Morphophysiology II | 3 |
ICEAN II | 2 |
Evaluation of nutritional status I | 2 |
TOTAL | 18 |
Credits 18
Credits
Statistics | 2 |
Ethics | 2 |
Geopolitics | 2 |
Biochemistry II | 3 |
Public health | 4 |
ICEAN II | 2 |
State assessment nutritional II | 2 |
TOTAL | 17 |
Credits 17
Creditos
Research foundations | 2 |
Elective I | 2 |
Epidemiology | 2 |
Innovation technologies in health | 2 |
Community nutrition | 2 |
Diet therapy of pregnancy and lactation | 3 |
Foods of animal origin | 2 |
Food of animal origin laboratory | 2 |
Credits 17
Credits
Projects formulation | 3 |
Citizen skills | 2 |
Disability and inclusion | 2 |
Progressive right to food | 2 |
Vegetarian food | 2 |
Plant-based food laboratory | 2 |
Diet therapy for children and adolescents | 3 |
Drug nutrient interaction | 2 |
TOTAL | 18 |
Credits 18
Credits
Project evaluation | 3 |
Security and health at work | 3 |
Food and nutrition planning | 2 |
Milk and non-alcoholic drinks | 2 |
Laboratory of milk and non-alcoholic beverages | 2 |
Adult diet therapy | 3 |
Management and operation of collective catering services I | 3 |
TOTAL | 18 |
Credits 18
Credits
Innovation and creativity | 3 |
Practice I: community processes | 4 |
Management and operation of catering services | 3 |
Collective II | 3 |
Diet therapy for the elderly | 2 |
Nutrition in situations of disability | 3 |
TOTAL | 18 |
Credits 18
Credits
Innovation and creativity | 3 |
Practice I: community processes | 4 |
Management and operation of catering services | 3 |
Collective II | 3 |
Diet therapy for the elderly | 2 |
Nutrition in situations of disability | 3 |
TOTAL | 18 |
Credits 19
Credits
Elective II | 2 |
Practice III: management and operation of CR services and I-maternal and child clinic | 8 |
Deepening Line II | 3 |
TOTAL | 13 |
Credits: 13
Credits
Elective III | 2 | ||
Practice IV:clinic II- hospitalization, emergency and intensive care | 8 | ||
Deepening Line III | 3 | ||
TOTAL | 13 | ||
TOTAL CREDITS OF PROGRAM | 169 |
Credits: 13
ADMISSION REQUIREMENTS UNDERGRADUATE PROGRAMS
Admission requirements New In-person and Virtual Undergraduate Applicant
To enter any of the undergraduate programs offered by María Cano, the new applicant must complete the following procedure:
- Fill out the online registration form
- Make the payment of undergraduate registration fees $133,900
- At the end of the registration form, upload to the platform the following documents one by one (in PDF format) as indicated at the end:
- Photocopy of the high school degree certificate or diploma, if you have not yet completed grade 11, original study certificate, issued by the school valid for no more than one month.
- Results of the ICFES tests (Saber 11), if you do not have the results you can attach the citation to the test.
- A legible photocopy of the identity document (enlarged).
- A 3×4 size photo, light blue background.
- Documents are not received physically unless required during the admission process.
- Print the registration payment form at the end of online registration or make payment through PSE.
*The Foundation reserves the right to admit and assign study schedules to students.