Training
Description
The Doctor of Clinical Nutrition program is a professionally-oriented, clinical doctoral program designed to educate students in all aspects of functional nutrition. Functional nutrition uses a holistic, flexible, and personalized approach to address each individual’s unique health goals and needs. Functional nutritionists consider the root causes of symptoms, the relationship between environmental and lifestyle factors, genetic predisposition, core biological functions and imbalances, and disease expression to inform clinical assessment and recommendations. The program reinforces and builds on students’ existing skills and knowledge in research literacy, ethics, and foundational nutrition; provides specialized coursework in nutritional genomics, environmental health, nutrition-focused physical exam, and case report writing; and explores advanced functional nutrition care in gastrointestinal, immune, cardio-metabolic, neurological, energy metabolism, and endocrine health. The program culminates with either applied practice within a clinical setting or an advanced clinically-oriented project.
Course Curriculum
This program consists of 44 credits of required courses. MUIH500 University-Wide New Student Orientation (0 cr) MUIH550 Academic Research & Scholarship (0 cr) NUTR705 DCN Orientation (0 cr) NUTR801 Principles of Integrative & Functional Nutrition (3 cr) NUTR802 Nutritional Approaches to Detoxification (3 cr) NUTR822 Epigenetics and Nutritional Genomics (3 cr) NUTR823 Ethics in Clinical Nutrition (1.5 cr) NUTR824 Research Literacy in Nutrition (3 cr) NUTR831 Integrative and Functional Nutrition in Gastrointestinal Health and Disease (3 cr) NUTR832 Integrative and Functional Nutrition in Immune Health (3 cr) NUTR833 Integrative and Functional Nutrition in Cardio-Metabolic Health (3 cr) NUTR834 Integrative and Functional Nutrition in Neurological Health (3 cr) NUTR835 Integrative and Functional Nutrition in Endocrine and Energy Health (3 cr) NUTR837 Integrative and Functional Nutrition for Complex Cases (3 cr) NUTR850 Nutrition Focused Physical Exam (1.5 cr) NUTR898 Nutrition DCN Comprehensive Exam (0 cr) RSCH811 Case Reports in Integrative Health (3 cr) RSCH850 Research Manuscript I (1 cr) RSCH851 Research Manuscript II (1 cr) Choose one of the following for 3.0 credits: NUTR904 Advanced Nutrition Clinic I (3 cr) NUTR910 Advanced Nutrition Final Project I (3 cr) Choose one of the following for 3.0 credits: NUTR905 Advanced Nutrition Clinic II (3 cr) NUTR911 Advanced Nutrition Final Project II (3 cr)
Trainer Expertise
Nutritionist
