Also Nutritional science

 

Dietetics and nutrition combine practical skills and research in food and health with educational information on food intake and food choices. It interprets the science of nutrition into applicable use, ie to prevent and treat disease and maintain health.

 

Graduates can find work as: nutritionists, dietitians, instructors or researchers in manufacturing companies, academic institutions, hospitals, health centres, nursing homes, and research and development laboratories. They can also work in retail selling nutritional and diet-related products.

 

You will learn about the nutrients in food, how they are used by the body and the relationship between food, health and diseases. This course often leads to a career as a dietician or nutritionist.

 

Diet and disease; food microbiology; human growth and development: biological and behavioural interactions; mineral nutrition and chronic diseases; nutrition and health issues; nutrition communications and counselling; nutritional and physicochemical aspects of food; social science perspectives on food and nutrition; vitamins.

Also medical sonography

 

Ultrasonography is a diagnostic medical procedure that uses high-frequency sound waves (ultrasound) to produce dynamic visual images of organs, tissues, or blood flow inside the body. These images are usually called ultrasound scans or sonograms. 

 

Some specialisations within sonography include: abdomen, mammary, obstetrics, echocardiography, vascular technology, neurosonology and ophthalmology. 

 

Graduates can work in: hospitals, clinics, physician offices, health and medical centres, laboratories or academic institutions.

 

You will learn how to use and operate specialised high-tech equipment to create images of structures of the different parts in the human body, and to interpret the resulting images.

 

Ultrasound imaging instrumentation; ultrasound of obstetrics and gynaecology; vascular ultrasound; clinical-diagnostic medical sonography.

 

Optometrists are primary eye care professionals who are trained to examine the eye for optical defects and plan the proper courses of therapy, such as correcting defects by prescribing corrective lenses (spectacles and contact lenses) or referring the patient to further medical care.

 

Graduates can find work as: optometrists, researchers, consultants, salespeople or lecturers.

 

In a nutshell, you will learn about eyes and methods to care for them. You will study visual defects and learn how to correct or relieve them. The course is divided into several main areas: basic science and clinical knowledge, clinical skills, optics and optical appliances, and professional skills. 

 

The curriculum covers all aspects of assessing functional disorders of the eye and visual systems (such as short or long sight); as well as training in methods of counselling people who need specific treatments such as eye surgery.

 

Abnormal ocular conditions; clinical biology of the visual system; human biology; neuroscience; occupational optometry; optics and visual optics; optometric pharmacology and microbiology; ophthalmic lasers for surgical correction of visual defects; visual perception.

 

 

Physiotherapy is concerned with human function and movement. You will learn to manipulate sore body parts and supervise after-care exercises and activities during recovery from illness or injury, as well as help people with conditions such as arthritis.

 

Physiotherapists do more than just restore physical agility. Scientific learning is combined with practical ability and willingness to empathise with people of all ages and from different walks of society (that is, the psychological, social and cultural aspects). 

 

Graduates can find work as: physiotherapists, physical therapists and orthopaedists in clinics, hospitals, nursing homes and sport centers.

 

You will learn to assess the needs of the patient or client, then prescribe and carry out the appropriate therapy. You also learn to evaluate the effect(s) of the treatment and determine whether follow-up sessions are required. Some of the therapy techniques you will be taught include electrotherapy, manual therapy, radiation therapy, therapeutics movement and vibration therapy.

 

Biomechanics; cardiovascular and pulmonary disorders; communication and clinical effectiveness; kinesiology and electrotherapy; musculoskeletal studies; neurology and neurological rehabilitation; occupational therapy; physiological and pathological processes; psychology.

 

 

Radiography uses controlled amounts of radiation, especially in X-rays, to produce a picture of the insides of people, or to treat diseases like cancer. 

 

There are two main branches of radiography: diagnostic radiography and therapeutic radiography. The former is known as radiology and is the study of the medical use of radiation to capture images of internal organs for diagnostic purposes. The latter is known as radiotherapy and studies the medical use of controlled amounts of radiation aimed at a particular part of a body to treat disease.

 

The demand for qualified radiographers is predicted to increase with the expansion of healthcare facilities and the proliferation of new technologies. Graduates usually work as radiography technicians, radiographers, diagnostic radiographers or radiation therapists.

 

You will be trained in the operation of imaging equipment, such as X-ray, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), computerised tomography (CT) and ultrasound (US) machines. Radiology is also available as a postgraduate course for medical doctors.

 

Anatomy; diagnostic and therapeutic radiography; oncology; pathology; physics; physiology; radiation and imaging science; radiotherapy; sociology.