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Dietician/Nutrition Courses

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    teacosy
    Registered Users Posts: 154 ✭✭teacosy


    This might answer your question

    http://www.indi.ie/index.php?page=30

    Dietitians can work in the HSE and are qualified counsel patients. Graduates with a nutrition degree are not sufficiently qualified to advise patients/individuals on their dietary needs. The DIT/TCD course gives a qualification in both nutrition and dietetics. No other course in the republic of ireland offers this qualification.


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    Mwnci Bach
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3 ✭Mwnci Bach


    Nutritionists aren't allowed to advise patients on a one-to-one basis, regarding dietary therapy of medical conditions, whereas Dietitians can. Dietitians who graduate from DIT/TCD are both Nutritionists and Dietitians. Having a Dietetic qualification is much better than having just the Nutrition qualification as it gives you many more options regarding your career.


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    getleft
    Registered Users Posts: 23 ✭getleft


    Nutritionist is not a protected professional title so therefore no qualification is required to call yourself a nutritionist.


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    Mwnci Bach
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3 ✭Mwnci Bach


    Absolutely right, getleft! However, here in the UK, the Nutrition Society are trying to change that because there is no end of "nutritionists" who are not qualified setting themselves up in private practice. Also, in the NHS, they will only employ properly qualified Nutritionists (for nutrition work other than one-to-one) or Dietitians (for dietary therapy advice on a one-to-one basis etc.). Dietitians can do both Dietetic and Nutrition work; Nutritionists can only do nutrition work. The job opportunities for Dietitians far outweigh the ones for Nutritionists. I have the DIT/TCD qualifications (the old style ones which took four-and-a-half years - I believe it's changed to 4 years now). Terrific course - extremely difficult and time-consuming - but well worth the hard work!


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