📘 Step 1. Curriculum Coverage

🩺 Medicine

• Definition of malnutrition and methods of nutritional support.
• Indications, contraindications and complications of oral, enteral and parenteral nutritional support.
• Clinical and laboratory monitoring of nutritional support.
• Routes of access for parenteral nutrition.
• Nasogastric tube insertion and observation of PEG tube insertion and care.
• Intake-output monitoring in hospitalized patients receiving parenteral nutrition.
• Patient counselling before nasogastric tube and PEG tube insertion.