Acute Malnutrition: Improving treatment through research
Acute Malnutrition: Improving treatment through research
Location
Date
Description
Activity no.: 5468-16-06-31. There are 28 available seats Enrollment deadline: 24/10/2016
Place Mwanamugimu Nutrition Unit, Makerere University Kampala, Uganda
Date and time 4.11.2016, at: 09:00 - 18.11.2016, at: 17:00
Regular seats 30
Activity Prices: - Open Market Agreement Students 0.00 € / Deltager/Participant outside UCPH 550.00 €
ECTS credits 4.00
Contact person Hannah-Rose Pesu: hpe@nexs.ku.dk
Course Organiser Henrik Friis E-mail address: hfr@nexs.ku.dk
Written language English / Teaching language English
Semester/Block Autumn / Scheme group note Monday to Friday
Exam form Written assignment / Exam details Written case-report / Exam details Passed / Not passed
Course workload
| Course workload category | Hours |
| Preparation | 50.00 |
| Lectures | 35.00 |
| Project work | 15.00 |
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| Sum | 100.00 |
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Content
Physiology, clinical manifestations and treatment of acute malnutrition.
Students who have taken the course will be able to:
- Understand the physiology behind severe acute malnutrition and the corresponding clinical manifestations and paraclinical findings.
- Do clinical examination and make the diagnosis of moderate and severe acute malnutrition.
- Identify and discuss the research gaps in relation to diagnostic criteria of moderate and severe acute malnutrition.
- Identify and discuss the research gaps in relation to current food products used for nutritional rehabilitation of moderate and severe acute malnutrition.
- Be able to engage in a scientific discussion about the most recent research on moderate and severe acute malnutrition, and critically review research.
Lectures, clinical case-demonstrations, short research presentations, and discussions
Price:
No fee for PhD students under the Open Market in Denmark and NOVApartners. Other participants are to pay a course fee of 550 EUR. Participants from low-income countries may apply for reduction in course fee and a travel grant. All students must arrange and pay their own travel. A few scholarships will be available for African PhD students working with acute malnutrition.
Lecturers:
Professor André Briend
Professor James Alexander Berkley
Doctor Marco Kerac
Etc.
For more information please contact Hannah-Rose Pesu: hpe@nexs.ku.dk.
Organiser
Venue
Mwanamugimu Nutrion Unit, Makerere University, Kampala Uganda
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