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Human health and disease

  • 22-09-2009 7:11am
    #1
    aquaceri
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 34 ✭


    Hi there,

    Is anybody currently taking this course? Any info on it would be great. I plan to apply as soon as I have gone back and taken chem for the leaving cert...a frightening prospect seen as I left school over 10 years ago!

    Thanks


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  • #2
    tallaght01
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,778 ✭✭✭tallaght01


    I guess you need to ask yourself what job you see yourself getting at the end of it. That's one thing that strikes me about it.

    What is the thinking n what it qualifies you to do?


  • #3
    aquaceri
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 34 ✭aquaceri


    Hi

    Well I have always been interested in this area even as a child...disease and how your body works.

    It took me until I was 28 to go back to college and I am studying neuromuscular and Physical therapy, I love it but have found my favourite lectures to be the ones that focus on Nutrition and how it affects the body with regard to disease .....

    I will be qualified in this by next August and as a 1st choice would like to go back and study Nutrition, as far as I can see there are only two colleges that have a Human Nutrition course which are UCD and TCD (which is ran jointly with TCD and DIT)...both are very very competitive even for mature students and to even get looked at for either one I need to have LC chemistry...My next choice would be human health and disease because as far as I am aware you can eventually specialise in Nutrition amongst other things.

    As for what Job I want .... I would like to continue with Physical therapy and I would like to be able to combine that with a good knowledge of nutrition and health so that I can offer my clients a better service. :D


  • #4
    tallaght01
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,778 ✭✭✭tallaght01


    I don't know anything about this specific course, but these type of courses are cropping up in the UK and overseas more often.

    I think if you're looking for it t add to your knowledge base, then it will do that very well. Some people think degrees like this lead to specific jobs, though, when they often need to be combined with postgrad qualificatoins to get a job.


  • #5
    aquaceri
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 34 ✭aquaceri


    thanks tallaght01 but unfortunatley I cannot go to the UK to study I have two children and a mortgage :):)

    I would hopefully if all went to plan do my masters in nutrition through the college I am in now...they do a masters course but not a degree one.


  • #6
    ayumi
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 676 ✭✭✭ayumi


    what do you quilaf as when u finish 4 yrs of this course


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  • #7
    aquaceri
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 34 ✭aquaceri


    you qualify with a degree in human health and disease i guess lol :D;):p

    I think there are alot of different areas you can move into....


  • #8
    tallaght01
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,778 ✭✭✭tallaght01


    I'm not really sure what job you would get? Is it very lab based? Like, would you be qualified to work in a lab afterwards.

    It's probably going to be a degree that people who miss out on the points for med do. Then they'll apply for GAMSAT at the end of it.


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