{"id":22425,"date":"2023-03-16T11:39:05","date_gmt":"2023-03-16T10:39:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/?p=22425"},"modified":"2023-03-06T16:40:55","modified_gmt":"2023-03-06T15:40:55","slug":"how-msc-nutrition-behaviour-expanded-my-knowledge-and-skills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/2023\/03\/16\/how-msc-nutrition-behaviour-expanded-my-knowledge-and-skills\/","title":{"rendered":"How MSc Nutrition & Behaviour expanded my knowledge and skills"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is a guest blog by BU graduate Consuelo Fern\u00e1ndez Prieto where she shares her experience on the MSc Nutrition & Behaviour course and her future career plans.<\/strong><\/p>\n

My name is Consuelo and I am a registered Dietitian and recent graduate from MSc Nutrition & Behaviour at BU.\"Consuelo<\/a><\/p>\n

When I decided to expand my knowledge and skills by pursuing a Master’s degree, the programme at BU instantly stood out from the rest by focusing on the complex link between nutrition and psychology and including a work-based learning experience via a short placement.<\/p>\n

During the course, I enjoyed the extensive in-class discussions, journal clubs, seminars, and workshops. By constantly discussing topics with peers with diverse backgrounds, and receiving individualised feedback, I was able to build on my critical thinking and reflective skills. On top of that, all lecturers were very approachable, patient, and enthusiastic. They helped me find a great placement with Apetito UK, in Trowbridge, and were always on hand to provide career advice. I was indecisive about whether to pursue a PhD or gain more work experience after graduation!<\/p>\n

\"Old<\/a>Still, heading into a postgraduate course is challenging. Balancing your workload is difficult, particularly because most of your learning and work will be done outside the lecture hours. Managing assignments, a dissertation, a placement, a part-time job and allowing room for time off can be overwhelming. Also, consider that if you are an international student, you are additionally navigating a different culture and\/or language. For me, keeping a daily and simple to-do list of three attainable goals meant my days did not feel as overwhelming. I also started going on walks every time my brain wasn\u2019t cooperating with me, as per a lecturer\u2019s suggestion. Try and figure out a strategy early on that works for you to benefit your mental health.<\/p>\n

Overall, completing this Master\u2019s degree at BU has allowed me to showcase my ability to work autonomously and manage large workloads, whilst keeping myself motivated. I have also gained more confidence in my ability to critically evaluate and reflect on nutrition related issues and my ability to communicate these as a team member within the workplace.<\/p>\n

Towards the end of my masters, I decided that looking for a full-time job and gaining more work experience and specialising as a Dietitian was what I wanted to do next. I attended multiple webinars from CareersBU and used the available resources that MyCareerHub has to help studen\"Consuelo<\/a>ts find employment. I found that many qualities you gain through this programme are very sought after when applying for jobs in nutrition, but it is a competitive field. I would definitely recommend checking out these resources and attending their webinars to get a feel for what UK employers want from graduates and how the interview process works here, as it is very different to what I was used to in my home country, Chile.<\/p>\n

I was lucky enough to know exactly what kind of role I wanted to go into after uni, and I will be taking on a post as a Specialist Dietitian within a Mental Health Service for Older People, promoting health and independence for people living with dementia or other mental health needs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This is a guest blog by BU graduate Consuelo Fern\u00e1ndez Prieto where she shares her experience on the MSc Nutrition & Behaviour course and her future career plans. My name is Consuelo and I am a registered Dietitian and recent graduate from MSc Nutrition & Behaviour at BU. When I decided to expand my knowledge… Read more » about How MSc Nutrition & Behaviour expanded my knowledge and skills<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1268,"featured_media":22426,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1669,1672,1663,12],"tags":[2103,3235,604,2175,1536],"class_list":["post-22425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pg-courses","category-health","category-postgraduate","category-student-blogs","tag-msc-nutrition-and-behaviour","tag-nutrition-courses","tag-nutrition-degree","tag-postgraduate-courses","tag-postgraduate-degrees"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22425","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1268"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22425"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22425\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22441,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22425\/revisions\/22441"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}