Curso Livre de Nutriprecision / Nutrição de Precisão no Doente Hospitalizado

Objectives

The course offers an in-depth review of the fundamental concepts of nutrition in critical, medical or surgical patients, with a strong practical component, enabling trainees to apply precision tools, interpret metabolic data and integrate nutritional interventions into multidisciplinary teams.

Operating Mode

The course comprises two sessions: an online session and an in-person session. The in-person session will take place on 25 May, from 9:00 am to 6:00 pm, and will last 8 hours. Depending on the number of registrations, an additional session may be held on 16 June 2026. Participants will be allocated to other dates in coordination with the course management.

The course will have a duration of 12 hours, awarding a total of 1 ECTS credit.

This course is part of the project Medicine, Technology, and the Future - MedTech NEXT | Digital More Impulse, under the Medicine Reform and Modernization Sub-measure.

The course provides up to 32 scholarships (subject to the availability of funding) for interns in the general year and in all medical specialties.

The scholarships awarded under the project Medicine, Technology and the Future – MedTech NEXT | More Digital Impulse, Sub-measure Reform and Modernisation of Medicine, comply with the Regulations for Incentive Scholarships under the UAlg+Skills4All and FOSTEAM@SOUTH Projects of the University of Algarve – Adult Impulse. According to paragraph b) of Article 3, the Adult Impulse Incentive Scholarship constitutes annual financial support to partially cover the costs of tuition fees for non-degree courses, aimed at the upskilling or professional reskilling of adults who have reached the age of 23 by 31 December of the year preceding the application.