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Introducing |
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the University of Virginia Health System
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"Weekend Warrior" Mini-Nutrition Support Program |
Next Session to be held Saturday and Sunday, May 31 - June 1, 2008!
Click here for program details and registration
If you cannot attend the upcoming session, but would like to be notified about future Weekend Warrior programs, please email Nancy Carpenter at: NLC9z@hscmail.mcc.virginia.edu
The week-long Nutrition Support Traineeship at the University of Virginia Medical Center has been very successful. However, we realize that it is not always practical or financially possible for clinicians to leave work or home for a full week at a time. The goal of this program is to provide as much up to date, practical nutrition support education as possible in a shorter 2-day course. Lectures will be enhanced by interactive case studies, question and answer periods, and group discussions.
The weekend program retains the advantages of a small group setting where professionals feel free to ask questions and share clinical experiences. Participants are encouraged to bring cases from their home facilities (HIPPA approved information only, please) so that we can incorporate information from recent research and our lectures into real world case-study scenarios. Our goal is to avoid the feeling of a big "nutrition conference" so that you can reap the benefits of the latest information and the hard-won experiences of peers that "have been there" before. In order to promote an environment that is non-threatening and encourages discourse (and to give everyone some elbow room) we have limited the enrollment to a maximum of 27 participants.
Our guest speakers have been hand selected for their incredible wealth of experiences......physicians, nurses and a medical information specialist sought after for their expertise and teaching ability.
Each attendee also receives their own up to date, fully referenced, evidence-based Nutrition Support Traineeship Syllabus as part of the program fee. The manual encompasses far more than we can possibly cover in a weekend (or even a week!). Our manual has been upgraded and enhanced since the program began in 2002 to provide you with the most current information possible.
Please feel free to come in casual dress, and bring along your passion for nutrition support.