“Clinical Nutrition and Dietetics” is concerned with therapeutic uses for nutrition in medical settings as part of a complete health care programme. It deals with the prevention, diagnosis and management of nutritional and metabolic changes related to acute and chronic diseases.

Key Features

• The growing evidence of unhealthy life style leading to many metabolic disorders has made this course as the need of the hour.
• The current analysis about BSc clinical nutrition and dietetics is more concentrated on hands-on clinical exposure and experience.
• This course offers a under graduate class room teaching, incorporating both theory, practical and clinics with one-year internship.
• This course shall be one among the first to be started with hospital collaboration, where students shall have an add-on advantage of clinical exposure. 

Core Competencies

• Structure, Biochemical and Metabolic Functions of Nutrients
• Food, Diets and Supplements
• Nutritional Status Assessment
• Nutrition and Disease
• Nutrition Intervention 

The  Clinical Nutrition and Dietetics, MCHP Manipal offers the following programs:

• B.Sc. Clinical Nutrition and Dietetics

It has world class facilties for training of undergraduate students