From biomedical scientist to dietitian
35 of the 81 essential skills of a dietitian are already essential for a biomedical scientist — about 43% of the job, before you learn anything new.
These numbers compare two occupations, not you and a job. What you personally already cover depends on what you have actually done.
- 35
- skills carry over
- 46
- would be new
- 43%
- of the target job covered
- 81
- essential skills of a dietitian
What a dietitian does
Dietitians assess specific nutritional requirements of populations or individuals throughout their lives and translate this into advice which will maintain, reduce risk to, or restore people’s health. Using evidence-based approaches, dietitians work to empower individuals, families and groups to provide or select food which is nutritionally adequate, safe, tasty and sustainable. Beyond healthcare, dietitians improve the nutritional environment for all through governments, industry, academia and research.
What carries over
35 skillsEssential in both jobs. This is the part of the move you have already made.
- accept own accountability
- adhere to organisational guidelines
- advise on healthcare users' informed consent
- apply context specific clinical competences
- apply organisational techniques
- biological chemistry
- chemistry
- communicate in healthcare
- comply with legislation related to health care
- comply with quality standards related to healthcare practice
- contribute to continuity of health care
- deal with emergency care situations
- educate on the prevention of illness
- epidemiology
- follow clinical guidelines
- health care legislation
- health care occupation-specific ethics
- human anatomy
- human physiology
- hygiene in a health care setting
- inform policy makers on health-related challenges
- interact with healthcare users
- listen actively
- manage healthcare users' data
- medical informatics
- medical terminology
- pathology
- professional documentation in health care
- promote inclusion
- provide health education
- provide treatment strategies for challenges to human health
- respond to changing situations in health care
- use e-health and mobile health technologies
- work in a multicultural environment in health care
- work in multidisciplinary health teams
What would be new
46 skillsEssential for a dietitian and not for a biomedical scientist. Note that the taxonomy describes activities rather than tools, so some of these may be things you already do under a different name.
- advise food industry
- advise on preparation of diet food
- calculation of food energy
- clinical examinations in dietetics
- composition of diets
- conduct nutrition research
- contribute to public health campaigns
- counselling methods
- deliver group sessions on nutrition
- develop policies for nutritional programs
- dietetics
- eating disorders
- educate healthcare users on nutrition
- empathise with the healthcare user
- ensure safety of healthcare users
- follow up nutrition care plan
- food allergies
- food authentication techniques
- food hygiene rules
- food labels
- food legislation
- food science
- formulate dietetic intervention
- identify cause of nutritional imbalance
- identify nutritional properties of food
- identify the dietetic professional quality of care
- identify the health benefits of nutritional changes
- intervene to reduce sub-optimal nutritional status of individuals
- measure nutritional health status of patients
- monitor the nutrition status of the individual
- nutrition of healthy persons
- nutritional adequacy of food intake
- obesity
- offer advice on diet-related concerns
- paediatrics
- perform nutrition analysis
- pharmacology
- prepare promotional materials on nutritition
- provide dietetic diagnosis
- psychology
and 6 more
Other moves from biomedical scientist
2 roles- specialist biomedical scientist35 skills in common
- orthoptist33 skills in common
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