The dietitian: to weight and health of the guard

In a recent, suffering from various diseases of the past, nutritionists mainly engaged in the selection of nutritional therapy for people - if the right diet can not cure the disease, it will slow down its development. Today dietetics understand more broadly the fashion for a healthy lifestyle and a desire to have a perfect figure leads to nutritionists huge number of people for the sole purpose - to lose weight. Here nutritionists are indispensable: they constitute an optimal diet and give recommendations on how to reduce weight without harm to health.

snapped specialists

With all the variety of medical centers Certified dietician in the labor market very few - annually in the capital to be called nutritionists are only about ten doctors ... To become a highly skilled dietitian, it is necessary to go a long way to go. First graduated from the Medical Institute in the specialty "medicine" or "Pediatrics" (6 years of study). Then enter the residency on specialty "Dietetics" (two years). Every year, from the walls of the institute out five to ten registered dietitian. That's all. The question arises: where then taken a number of doctors to fill all the jobs? Firstly, many nutritionists working in several medical centers. Second, sometimes in the role of the dietician favor doctors from other medical specialties: gastroenterologists, endocrinologists, cardiologists.

universal doctor

Dietitians working in hospitals or clinics, see to it that patients follow a diet necessary when their disease. Of course, the conditions to provide power to each individual, in our clinics not all patients with the same diagnosis are standard menu. Control of the catering department, the introduction of new products and changes in diets, depending on new developments nutrition - are the main responsibilities of dietitians.

Nutritionist Consultant works with patients individually in a specialized center. Assesses their condition, carries out analyzes, studies, if necessary, sends to consult other doctors ... And only after all preliminary examinations proceed to the main point - the compilation of the diet.

To avoid mistakes in the diet, the physician must have knowledge of the various branches of medicine: gastroenterology, endocrinology, cardiology. The main principle of nutrition, as well as any other branch of medicine - do no harm.

Necessary qualities:

 tact;

 the ability to withstand high loads;

 willingness to long learning;

 mathematical ability.

Career and Salary

Young doctor-intern at the clinic first probation. Then goes to work as a doctor. In parallel, he engaged in scientific work. With each new step (junior researcher, researcher, senior researcher, leading researcher, and so on. D.) The salary increases of the tariff schedule.

Salaries of state employees is small. Additional income is generated in commercial studies, funded by the customer (for example, in the testing of new pharmaceuticals).

Higher salaries in private clinics. Many nutritionists combine work in research institutes and consulting in one or several private clinics.