This programme will give you the knowledge, skills and behaviours to enable you to apply to be a dietitian through the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC).
You’ll gain an understanding of the science and composition of food and how nutrition and diet therapy can be used to prevent and treat chronic and acute diseases that can affect people throughout their lifespan.
Plus, eligible students following this course will also receive a payment of at least £5000 a year. This doesn't need to be paid back and is in addition to any financial support received through your student loan.
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About this course
Dietitians are experts in nutrition who can assess, diagnose and treat dietary and nutrition-related problems.
Practice-based learning is an essential part of our course and you’ll spend 27 weeks, over the two-year programme, working hands-on with service users to develop up-to-date skills and professional behaviours in a range of different settings within the Humber and North Yorkshire Health and Care Partnership.
Our diverse range of practice placements offer experience across the four pillars of dietetic practice. These include everything from NHS Trusts across the region, dietitians who have established their own dietetic practices, research, industry and leadership roles, charities as well as digital and remote dietetic practice.
Many of our local NHS trusts even offer further financial and training incentives to train dietitians. Further extra-curricular opportunities are available within the city’s sporting sector courtesy of our well-established links with professional clubs such as Hull FC, Hull Kingston Rovers and Hull City.
Plus, you’ll complete this programme with your own research project, giving you the opportunity to apply to be published in a scientific journal and broaden the nutrition evidence base further. This lays the foundation for your future career.
Watch our road to registration webinar here.
Unique to this course, taught elements are timetabled Tuesday – Thursdays only, creating an inclusive environment for our students who may have additional responsibilities such as childcare or part-time employment, or choose to commute to campus. (Placements remain full time Monday-Friday).
Module options
For a full Masters degree, you'll study 180 credits over the duration of your course. Some programmes offer a Postgraduate Diploma (PGDip) qualification or a Postgraduate Certificate (PGCert) qualification. For a PGDip, you'll study 120 credits, and for a PGCert, you'll study 60 credits.
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Clinical Dietetics 1: Lifespan, Lifestyle and Long-term Conditions
This is the first of two clinical dietetics modules. Learn about the aetiology and pathogenesis of diseases that can occur throughout the human lifespan and how nutrition and diet therapy can prevent, treat and manage these conditions.
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20 credits
The Composition of Food
This module will equip you with the knowledge and skills of ‘all things food related’ and how these are applied in practice in different settings, from hospitals to care homes to the international food industry. Understand how food manipulation impacts on health and develop your own cooking skills by working alongside professional chefs in our campus kitchen. Guest speakers - such as local artisan bakers, food scientists and nutritionists - will complement the training of this module, ensuring you acquire the relevant knowledge and skills to support your progression to a graduate dietitian.
core
20 credits
Public Health and Health Promotion
This module will provide you with a critical understanding of public health nutrition and health promotion as well as the encompassing legislation. Advances in technology in health care will be studied, giving you the opportunity to produce your very own health promotion resource.
core
20 credits
The Professional Dietitian
Develop your understanding and awareness of the principles and values underpinning professional behaviour in practice, from being a student dietitian and beyond. You will enhance your communication and behaviour change skills and have an opportunity to spend three weeks on your first practice placement to be able to start to put your newly developed knowledge and skills into practice.
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20 credits
Clinical Dietetics 2: Applied Nutritional Support
Using the technologies and facilities of the award-winning Allam Medical Building and the wealth of clinical experience from our module tutors, this module will enable you to develop your dietetic knowledge and skills to be able to assess, plan, justify and implement nutrition support strategies, including food fortification, tube feeding and intravenous nutrition, for a range of clinical conditions.
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20 credits
Evidence Informed Practice
This module offers a stimulating and practical insight into the dietetic evidence base. Develop your understanding and ability to conduct clinical research, audit and service evaluations in the field of nutrition and dietetics.
core
20 credits
Reflection & Consolidation of Practice
This module includes 24 weeks of practice-based learning and gives you the opportunity to reflect, develop and consolidate your dietetic knowledge, skills and behaviours that you will have learned over the duration of the programme by working alongside the dietetic workforce in your final placements. Create your own professional portfolio and prepare yourself for a career as a practising dietitian.
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20 credits
Research for Dietetic Practice
This module will enable you to advance your research skills to undertake a nutrition-related systematic literature review, which you will present in a conference-style format to potential regional employers. You will be primed to become an evidence-based autonomous practitioner and ready to practice in the dietetic workforce.
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40 credits
Our academics
Our experts are committed to the development of sporting and nutrition excellence; promoting health and wellbeing; and advancements in recovery from injury or illness.
As well as a thriving education portfolio encompassing a range of courses, they are at the cutting edge of research.
Joanne Black
Programme Director
Joanne is a BDA and HCPC-registered dietitian. Before joining Hull as Programme Director, she practised as a clinical dietitian as a team leader in the local NHS trust, but left to establish and lead this exciting new Masters at the University.
Liz Wells
Senior Lecturer
Liz has been a registered dietitian for over 15 years and has a wealth of experience from acute hospital dietetics, having previously specialised as a critical care team leader and as a Macmillan specialist dietitian in oncology and haematology.
Entry Requirements
What do I need?
When it comes to applying for this Postgraduate Taught degree, you'll need an Undergraduate degree (or equivalent). For this course, you'll need a 2:1 from a relevant bachelor's degree.
The programme is designed for graduates who have studied a subject that is relevant to this course.
If you’re an undergraduate student at Hull, you’re guaranteed a fast-track route to this postgraduate degree, as long as you meet the entry requirements.
In order to ensure our students have a rich learning and student experience, most of our programmes have a mix of domestic and international students. We reserve the right to close applications early to either group if application volumes suggest that this blend cannot be achieved.
Typical offer
2:1 in a relevant subject area
Typically a 2:1 or above, (or international equivalent) in a relevant science subject such as biological or health sciences, nutrition or sport and exercise science.
Fees & Funding
How much is it?
Scholarships
We offer a number of awards, bursaries and scholarships for eligible students. They’re awarded for a variety of reasons including academic achievement and/or to help those on lower incomes.
Scholarships and bursaries are separate to student loans. And the best bit is, you don’t pay a penny back.
NHS Learning Support Fund
UK students studying this course will receive a payment of at least £5 000 a year. This doesn't need to be paid back and is in addition to any financial support received through your student loan.
International Scholarships and Bursaries
We offer a range of scholarships and bursaries for international students.
Find out more and see if you're eligible for our International Scholarships and Bursaries.
Our facilities
Future prospects
This course has been launched at the request of local healthcare providers to meet a near critical shortage of dietitians – so the career prospects for graduates could hardly be better.
The current employment market for graduates in dietetics is strong, with excellent career paths available in not only the NHS and healthcare, but also in sports nutrition, private practice, education, academia and research, and the medical nutrition and the food and drink industry.
Take your career to the next level
Like what you’ve seen? Then it’s time to apply.
Make your application online now, and our admissions team will get back to you as soon as possible to make you an offer.
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We regularly deliver virtual and on-campus events to help you discover your perfect postgraduate course, whether it’s a subject you already love or something completely different. Our events are an opportunity for you to chat to tutors and current students and find out about the career options a postgraduate degree could lead to.
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- The NHS Learning Support Fund provides a grant of at least £5,000 for each year of study for UK students of a range of undergraduate and postgraduate courses. You don't need to pay this back, and you can get in addition to a student loan. Further details are available on the NHS Business Services Authority website.
All modules presented on this course page are subject to availability and this list may change at any time.