With this 12-credit online Advanced Certificate in Nutrition for Healthcare Providers, practicing physicians, physician assistants, and nurses can learn to apply new knowledge of evidence-based nutrition in the care of their patients.
Why Get an Advanced Certificate in Nutrition for Healthcare Providers at New York Tech?
New York Tech’s 12-credit asynchronous online Advanced Certificate in Nutrition for Healthcare Providers gives healthcare professionals—such as physicians, physician assistants, and nurses—training in clinical nutrition to make a greater impact on patient care.
While nutrition is already within the scope of practice for many healthcare professionals, this program provides the specialized knowledge necessary to effectively treat and prevent many chronic illnesses including cardiovascular disease, obesity, and Type 2 diabetes.
Learn where a Advanced Certificate in Nutrition for Healthcare Providers from New York Tech can take you. Complete the form to start the conversation.
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What You’ll Learn
Learn to evaluate pathophysiology, risk factors, and clinical manifestation of diseases related to nutrition. Build the knowledge to describe nutrient characteristics, food sources, bioavailability, and utilization of nutrients within the body, and learn to formulate responses to common diet-related questions that practitioners are often asked by patients.
Launch your career in clinical practice or research, or help individuals and groups find lifelong health with the online Clinical Nutrition, M.S. from New York Tech. Integrate biomedical and nutrition sciences as you develop an understanding of medical nutrition therapy on your schedule.
With our 100 percent online and asynchronous program, you can take classes anywhere at any time, fitting learning into your own schedule. Plus, new online tools make it easy to post visual and audio messages and participate in class discussions.
From clinical nutrition to occupational or physical therapy, learn more about the range of graduate programs available at New York Tech’s School of Health Professions.
By The Numbers
$147
Billion each year is spent on healthcare for obesity
CDC
100%
Online Program
#15
Top Online M.S. in Clinical Nutrition programs, 2022
Intelligent.com
Career and Salary Outlook
Expand your career with a deeper understanding of how nutrition is a foundation of human health and how it can help prevent and manage multiple diseases and chronic conditions.
Career Outlook
Employment for dieticians and nutritionists is expected to grow 7 percent from 2022 to 2032, faster than the average for all occupations (BLS).
Salary Outlook
The median annual wage for dietitians and nutritionists was $69,680 (BLS, May 2023).
Program Details
Learn more about the Advanced Certificate in Nutrition for Healthcare Providers program, including admission requirements, how to apply, and scholarship/funding opportunities.
To be admitted, students must have completed some advanced academics in certain healthcare fields.
Nutrition is an important part of preventive care. Providing patients with critical information about how proper diet, vitamins and nutrients can alleviate and deter serious illness is something all healthcare providers should learn.
Bernadette Riley, D.O. ‘05 Clinical Associate Professor, New York Tech College of Osteopathic Medicine
Learn how training in critical nutrition can make a greater impact on your patients’ care with the Advanced Certificate in Nutrition for Healthcare Providers at New York Tech.
