Postgraduate Curriculum in Human Nutrition in Pakistan: Evaluation for Three Main Domains in Nutrition by Using the Novel Delphi Technique
Postgraduate Curriculum in Human Nutrition in Pakistan: Evaluation for Three Main Domains in Nutrition by Using the Novel Delphi Technique
Iftikhar Alam1*, Sana Shah1, Muhammad Farooq2* and Samiya Rahman3
ABSTRACT
The primary motivation behind the objective of this study was to discover innovative concepts for developing a postgraduate Nutrition education curriculum in Pakistan. The rise of nutrition as a separate education and research field has made a compelling requirement for nutrition institutions to adopt a more globalized strategy for curriculum to effectively address nutritional problems confronting the humanity at national and international levels. Therefore, the current study analyzed postgraduate NEC in Pakistan against a standard setup in previous research. The present study used the Delphi method to build consensus among selected (n=46) members of nutrition experts on research questions of interest. The experts were motivated to thoroughly review the postgraduate NEC contents against the three ‘domains’ (“Clinical Nutrition”, “Applied Nutrition” and “Basic Nutrition”), which served as standards for comparison. They were requested to answer on: “which subject matters from every domain are addressed in the present postgraduate NEC?”. In addition, they were requested to suggest new innovative learning ideas that could be incorporated in the present postgraduate NEC. The results show higher (>80%) consensus among the experts on ‘the postgraduate NEC reflect ‘very well’ the three essential ‘domains’. As many as 34 novel ideas were suggested that may be . In view of the findings of this study, we suggest the 34 previously missing from the postgraduate NEC may be incorporated. Future research should focus on examining the utility of these novel ideas and best practices for showing current findings in NEC.
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