Department of Nutrition and Dietetics

Hi, I'm Elif Humeyra Ertoy. I am a third year student at the Department of Nutrition and Dietetics at Yıldırım Beyazıt University in Ankara. The Department of Nutrition and Dietetics is a department that focuses on providing healthy nutritional habits as well as treating diseases and improving health by using medical nutrition therapy.
In our department, there are courses such as Physiology, Biochemistry, Nutrition Principles, Anatomy, Nutrition in Pediatric Diseases, Nutrition in Adult Diseases and Microbiology. We have laboratory applications of our courses such as Nutrition Principles and Food Chemistry. In order to finish our department, we need to submit our graduation and seminar projects to our school. After graduating from our department, we can work in private hospitals or public hospitals, community health centers, private clinics or institutional kitchens. The main reason why I chose my department is that chronic diseases such as obesity and diabetes are increasing today and the biggest environmental factor is nutrition. The biggest reason I chose Ankara Yıldırım Beyazıt University is that it is in Ankara. The foundation of the Department of Nutrition and Dietetics was laid in Ankara and I chose this place because the relevant seminars, symposia and events were mostly in Ankara. What I benefit from most among the opportunities offered to students is to have a good education and teaching staff, and to have practical laboratory courses in accordance with the theoretical courses we have taken. My advice to students who will choose our university and department is that they like courses like Physics and Chemistry and they have apt persuasion skills regarding bilateral relations. I wish success to the students who will choose the Department of Nutrition and Dietetics at Ankara Yıldırım Beyazıt University.