Paediatric Nutrition

Code:

CN41005

Acronym:

NUTPED

Keywords
Classification	Keyword
OFICIAL	Health Sciences

Instance: 2020/2021 - 1S

Active?	Yes
Course/CS Responsible:	Nutrition Sciences

Cycles of Study/Courses

Acronym	No. of Students	Study Plan	Curricular Years	Credits UCN	Credits ECTS	Contact hours	Total Time
CNUP	68	Plano oficial	4	-	3,5	35	94,5

Teaching language

Suitable for English-speaking students

Objectives

Provide theoretical and practical knowledge about food and nutrition in healthy and pathology children and adolescents.

Learning outcomes and competences

Demonstration of the consistency of the syllabus with the learning objectives of the course. The syllabus contents meet the pathophysiological approach, semiology of clinical conditions, principles of approach and relevant nutritional intervention in Pediatrics.

 

Working method

Presencial

Program

Theoretical Classes: 

Presentation . Breastfeeding - Lactation Physiology - Breastfeeding Composition - Epidemiology and promotion of breastfeeding . Artificial breast - Diet Milk - Diet Formulas . Food diversification in the 1st year of life - General - Objectives - Age of Onset . Nutritional Assessment . Anthropometric Assessment - Evaluation Socio-Economic, Cultural and Health - Evaluation of Dietary Habits . Protein-Energy Malnutrition - Pathophysiology - Diagnosis - Forecast - Prevention . Preschool and School Food . Obesity in children - Diagnosis - Evolution - Prevention . Diabetes Mellitus in Childhood and Adolescence . Digestive Pathology - Celiac Disease . Enteral nutrition in pediatrics - Calculation of nutritional requirements - Access roads - Monitoring of child / adolescent . Metabolic Diseases

Theoretical and Pratical Classes: 1. Breastfeeding - Advantages of Breastfeeding - Technique Breastfeeding 2. Artificial Breast - Indications, precautions, contraindications and limitations - Needs - Clinical case 3. Artificial Breast - Continuation of previous session - Clinical Cases 4. Diversified Power in the 1st Year of Life - Precautions, limitations, indications and contraindications - Clinical Cases 5. Diversified Power in the 1st Year of Life - Continuation of previous session - Clinical Cases 6. Nutritional Assessment of the Child / Adolescent - Anthropometric Assessment: Growth curves and reference patterns - Clinical case 7. Obesity in children - Therapeutic Nutrition - Clinical case 8. Protein-Energy Malnutrition - Therapeutic Nutrition - Clinical case 9. Enteral Nutrition in Pediatrics - Methods and Recommendations - Nutritional requirements 10. Celiac disease in the Child / Adolescent - Nutritional therapy and family, school and social orientation - Clinical case 11. Therapeutic Nutritional Diabetes Mellitus - Diabetical Needs - Schedule insulin - Recommendations - Clinical case 12. Metabolic Diseases - Clinical case

Mandatory literature

W Allan Walker and John B. Watkins, MD; Nutrition in Pediatrics. Science and clinical Application, Little, Brown and Company, 1985
António Guerra; Alimentação e Nutrição nos Primeiros Anos de Vida - 7º Workshop Nestlé Nutrition, Nestlé Nutrition Institute, 2008
DS Mac Laren and D Burman; Textbook of Pediatric Nutrition, Churchill, 1982
C Ricour, J Ghisolfi, G Putet, O Goulet; Traité de Nutrition Pédiatrique, Maloine, 1993
DG Kelts and EG Jones; Manual of Pediatric Nutrition, Little, Brown and Company, 1984
Khursheed N, Jeejeebhy MB; Terapeutica Actualizada en Nutrition, CEA,S.A, 1989
BL Wardley, JWL Puntis and LS Taitz; Handbook of Child Nutrition, Oxford University Press, 1997
J Videira Amaral; tratado de nutrição clinica, Abbott Laboratórios, 2009

Teaching methods and learning activities

THEORETICAL CLASSES - One theoretical class (1 hour) per week - expository class

THEORETICAL-PRACTICAL CLASSES - One practical theoretical class (1 hour) per week - expository and interactive with discussion and resolution of clinical cases on subjects covered in theoretical classes, as well as in PL

PL - a laboratory practice class (hour and a half - 90 ') in the context of a clinical office, at Sao João hospital, every three weeks, in order to provide students with the possibility of contacting children and adolescents with different pathologies either during hospitalization, or particularly in external consultations. 

Group Work - carried out by students and discussion of them with all elements of the class, using every week (including naturally in the week in which the laboratory practice class is scheduled)

keywords

Health sciences

Evaluation Type

Distributed evaluation with final exam

Assessment Components

Designation	Weight (%)
Exame	75,00
Trabalho escrito	25,00
Total:	100,00

Amount of time allocated to each course unit

Designation	Time (hours)
Apresentação/discussão de um trabalho científico	1,00
Estudo autónomo	34,00
Frequência das aulas	35,00
Elaboração de projeto	12,00
Trabalho escrito	12,50
Total:	94,50

Eligibility for exams

Calculation formula of the final classification:

Exam Rating - 75%
Evaluation of the Written Group Work - 15%
Oral presentation - 10%

The final grade will be obtained by the sum of all components.

The final classification results from the sum of the referred components, with a minimum value of 9.5 values ​​for the final approval of the UC.


Mandatory presentation of written group work to enter the UC final exam, except in the case of student workers who can do individual work.

Calculation formula of final grade

Final exam, consisting of multiple answer questions: 15 points

Evaluation of group work:
---- Written work: 3 values
---- Oral presentation: 2 values

Calculation formula of the final classification:

Exam Rating - 75%
Evaluation of the Written Group Work - 15%
Oral presentation - 10%

The final grade will be obtained by the sum of all components.

Classification improvement

According to the rules of the Faculty

Observations

Bibliografia 

Pediatric Nutrition in Practice. Berthold Koletzko. 2008

World Health Organization. WHO Child Growth Standarts- Training Course on Child Growth Assessment Geneva: WHO 2008

Guia de Avaliação do Estado Nutricional Infantil e Juvenil. Rito A, Bereda J, Carmo I. Instituto Nacional de Saúde Doutor Ricardo Jorge. 2011

Guerra A et al. Ata Pediátrica Portuguesa. Vol 42 (5). 2011

Pediatric Nutrition - 7 Edition - American Academy of Pediatrics. Ronald E. Kleinman, MD, FAAP - 2013

Nutritión Pediátrica Hospitalaria. Oscar Segarra Cantón, Susana Redecillas Ferreiro, Susana Clemente Bautista. ERGON C/Arboleda 1.28221 - Madrid. 2016

Alimentação Saudável dos 0 aos 6 anos - Linhas de Orientação para Proficionais e Educadores. Lisboa: Direção Geral de Saúde 1ª Edição 2019


NOTE

In cases that are justified and with the guidance of the UP and authorization from FCNAUP, both classes and assessments may have to be remotely (remote) using new technologies for teaching and learning.