Short courses
Our department is dedicated to assisting healthcare professionals be up to date with the latest information on food, nutrition and health; assisting them to answer questions from patients and also provide simple food based advice to help improve a patients’ health. Our suite of online courses are suitable for healthcare professionals looking to upskill their knowledge on a range of nutrition and health topics.These courses will include practical scenarios to assist healthcare professionals in implementing evidenced based nutrition information into their practice. Healthcare professionals may be able to collect CPD points for these courses, depending on their discipline and professional associations.
Short courses for everyone
Food as Medicine
At a time when food and nutrition information is at an all-time high, there is a lot of confusion and misinformation out there about food based recommendations for wellness.
Short courses for Healthcare Professionals
Food and Inflammation
Help your patients use food and nutrition to assist in reducing chronic inflammation. A practical 2 week online course on food and inflammation.
- 28 March 2022 Register Here
Food and our Genome
Should we be eating according to our genes? Is there a DNA diet we should all be following? Are genetic tests helpful when advising patients on diets? A practical 2 week online course on food and nutrition, and genetics.
- 18 April 2022 Register Here
Food, Exercise and the Gut
Help your patients manage gastrointestinal issues associated with exercise. A practical 2 week online course on food, exercise and the gut.
- 9 May 2022 Register Here
Food, Fertility and Pregnancy
Help your patients use foods and nutrition to assist in conceiving and achieving good pregnancy outcomes. A practical 2 week online course on food, fertility and pregnancy.
- 11 July 2022 Register Here
Introduction to Paediatric Nutrition for Health Professionals
An online short course in the basics of paediatric nutrition, offered by the Department of Nutrition, Dietetics and Food, Monash University.
Sports Nutrition for Personal Trainers, Coaches and Health professionals - (Coming soon)
This course aims to provide practical, evidence-based and workforce led professional education for nutrition to support sports performance. This course has been developed with and for personal trainers, coaches and health professionals.This course will be lead by Dr Ricardo Costa and team.
Project ECHO: Co-designing healthy remote store environments - (Coming soon)
Project ECHO® series run in collaboration with Health and Wellbeing Queensland is an online, interactive model of collaborative problem solving and peer-to-peer learning, delivered via Zoom. The Project ECHO® series consists of eight fortnightly sessions (60-90 minutes each) and has been developed for this study with a focus on upskilling the nutrition workforce to support stores in modifying the food environments.
REFRESH - CRE Food Retail Environments for health
Food retail stores, including grocery stores and supermarkets, are a prime setting to improve population diet and health as they provide a high proportion of people’s food and beverage needs. Food retail practice and policy to enable health is a rapidly developing research and practice area in Australia and overseas requiring specialist skills and knowledge.
Food as Medicine courses - pathway to IANE membership
The Monash University suite of Food as Medicine courses are recognised by NNEdPro Global Centre for Nutrition and Health, as a pathway for doctors and other healthcare professionals to enter their International Academy of Nutrition Educators (IANE).