Certificate of Achievement
has completed the following course:
Food as Medicine: Fertility and Pregnancy
Monash University
This online professional development course for practising healthcare professionals presented the current evidence surrounding the role of nutrition and the foods we eat on fertility and pregnancy outcomes. The course used case studies to support general practitioners, nurses and midwives to employ what they learned in the course in their professional practice, helping them provide evidence-based answers to common nutrition-related questions and develop a holistic approach to patient care.
2 weeks, 4 hours per week
Helen Truby
Professor of Nutrition and Dietetics
Monash University
Transcript
Learning outcomes
- Generate a holistic multi-disciplinary approach to managing women peri-conception and during pregnancy.
- Describe the role of pre-conception nutrition in terms of fertility, foetal development and adult health.
- Provide evidence based food recommendations to improve ovulation and fertility.
- Define dietary recommendations for pregnancy and define strategies for achieving.
- Promote optimal nutrition pre-conception and during pregnancy by developing/providing handouts to women interested in having a family/considering conception. (Systems based patient safety learning outcome).
Syllabus
- The link between food and fertility
- The effect of preconception food and diet
- Weight and fertility
- Dietary recommendations to improve ovulation and fertility
- The physiology of pregnancy and nutrient metabolism
- Weight management during pregnancy
- Nutrient requirements during pregnancy
- Food recommendations during pregnancy
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Issued on 26th September 2017
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