Nutrition and Dietetics is one of the degree programmes offered by Hanze University of Applied Sciences Groningen’s School of Health Care alongside Speech and Language Therapy, Physiotherapy, Medical Imaging and Radiation Therapy, Dental Hygiene, Health Care Management and Physician Assistant. The degree programme offers a first-phase, i.e. Bachelor-level, full-time higher professional education, specifically a higher health care education. The Nutrition and Dietetics degree programme trains students to become nutrition-related health specialists.

A distinction is made between three different professional fields in which dieticians could end up working: health care, prevention and health promotion and the food industry. In the curriculum, this translates as a total of four majors, respectively Nutrition and Health Care, Nutrition and Vitality, Nutrition and Business and a broader programme (by means of a minor), leading to the Nutrition and Society major.


In 2013, the Dutch Association of Dieticians (NVD) established the professional profile of a dietician based on the seven CanMEDS areas. Analogously, a national professional profile which incorporates all the learning outcomes was elaborated.

 

In 2013, the Dutch Association of Dieticians (NVD) established the professional profile of a dietician based on the seven CanMEDS areas. Analogously, a national professional profile which incorporates all the learning outcomes was elaborated.

The core of professional practice is professional conduct. All other competence areas touch upon and are steered by this. The seven competence areas in the professional profile describe the entire breadth of the dietician's field of expertise.

The competence areas based on CanMEDS are as follows:
1. Professional conduct
2. Communication
3. Collaboration
4. Knowledge and science
5. Socially responsible conduct
6. Leadership
7. Professionalism