Nutritional Medicine Tehran University of Medical Sciences (TUMS)

Overview

At Nutritional Medicine from Tehran University of Medical Sciences (TUMS) all graduates will be expected to enthusiastically inform and inspire their patients and clients to adopt health-protecting and the healthy diets and develop plans to prevent, and even reverse all nutrition related-diseases in enhanced health and well-being of the patients and the community.

Students at Nutritional Medicine from Tehran University of Medical Sciences (TUMS) will have competency to:

• Counsel individuals and groups on basic roles of good nutrition, healthy eating habits, and nutrition monitoring to improve their quality of life. 

• Assess nutritional needs, diet restrictions and current health plans to improve and implement nutritional plans.

• Provide nutritional counseling to patients with non-communicable disease, brain and nervous system, gastrointestinal disease and other diseases that nutrition can potentially prevent or control them.

• Advise patients and their families on the importance of nutritional principles, and food selection and preparation 

• Make recommendations regarding public policy, such as food fortification and nutrition standards for specific groups. 

• Participate in planning and conducting research projects on diet and nutrition.