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PNPD Module 3: Clinical and Coaching Skills Development (SD) 2025

Instructors Janet Lakin

Category 2025

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Updated 26 Nov 2024

Lessons 31

Enrolled 10

Language English ‎(en)‎

Skill Level Beginner

Course Overview

Personalised Nutrition Practice is an art as well as a science. Making clinical applications in a world of scientific uncertainty is an ongoing challenge. This module focuses on the development of a diverse range of clinical skills, knowledge, and coaching techniques necessary for clinical practice utilising pathophysiological reasoning in the complex field of personalised nutrition, nutritional therapy, and lifestyle management.

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PNPD Module 3: Clinical and Coaching Skills Development (SD) 2025

Module Leader: Lara Boyd
Module Leader: Janet Lakin

Skill Level: Beginner

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