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Professional characteristics of dietitians
Professional characteristics of dietitians

operating duty

1, clinical dietitian

Mainly engaged in disease-related nutrition work, making reasonable meals for patients and designing recipes suitable for different patients. He mainly works in a hospital and is often called a nutritionist. Most of these nutritionists graduated from the preventive medicine department of medical college/university.

2. Public dietitian

Also known as a public dietitian, his work is related to the public, mainly engaged in the dissemination of nutrition knowledge, group nutrition survey, planning of various social activities related to nutrition, and planning of film and television literature related to nutrition knowledge publicity and education. Its work content is mostly intangible products such as nutrition knowledge.

3. Food nutritionist

Mainly working in food enterprises, mainly responsible for food development and other food-related nutrition work.

registration requirement

Level 4: (one of the following circumstances)

1, continuously engaged in this occupation 1 year or more.

2, with medical or food professional secondary school graduation certificate.

3. After the formal training of public dietitians in Level 4, they have reached the required standard class hours and obtained the certificate of completion.

Level 3: (under one of the following circumstances)

1, and has been engaged in this profession for more than 6 years.

2. After obtaining the four-level public dietitian professional qualification certificate, he has been engaged in this profession continuously.

More than four years.

3. After obtaining the professional qualification certificate of level 4 public dietitian, he has been engaged in this professional work for more than 3 years continuously, and has reached the required standard hours after the training of level 3 public dietitian, and obtained the certificate of completion.

4. College degree or above in medicine or food. 5. Have a college degree or above in non-medical or food major, and have been engaged in this occupation for more than 1 year.

6. Have a college degree or above in non-medical or food major, have reached the required standard hours after training by a three-level nutritionist, and have obtained a certificate of completion.

salary

1, average annual salary: the average salary of nutritionists in China is about 126907.

2. Annual income interval distribution: 46% is below 654.38+10,000; 10-200,000, accounting for 42%; More than 200,000 accounts for 12%.

3. Distribution of annual salary of different seniority: 1 year11,167: 1-3 years1,628: 3-.

Guangzhou, Shanghai and Hangzhou are the regions with the greatest demand for nutritionists.

5. For nutritionists with the highest salary, food nutritionists, public nutritionists and clinical nutritionists have the most skill requirements.

6. The industries that need nutritionists most are food/beverage/liquor, medical institutions, wholesale/retail.

Employment direction

1. College nutritionists are responsible for nutrition consultation and catering guidance for teachers and students in kindergartens and schools.

2. Marketing nutritionists are engaged in the production, sales and publicity of nutrition and health products.

3. Consulting dietitians to provide nutrition consulting services for communities, nursing homes, retired cadres and high-income people.

4. Food nutritionists are engaged in the production and sales of food, beverages, fast food and other products as well as nutritional catering.

5. Sports nutritionists are engaged in nutrition catering and nutrition guidance in gymnasiums and sports schools.

6, beauty nutritionists engaged in beauty maintenance, surgery and cosmetic surgery after the recovery period of nutritional advice and guidance.

7. Hospital nutritionists are engaged in providing catering services for inpatients and people in nursing homes.

8. Management nutritionists are engaged in the senior management of catering hotels, and serve as professional ordering and catering divisions.

9. Educate nutritionists to engage in dietitian teaching in colleges and universities.

10, public nutritionists are in charge of relevant departments of government agencies and food certification bodies.

1 1, dietotherapy nutritionist: food conditioning and nutrition collocation of common chronic diseases.

12, pregnant and baby nutritionist: nutrition and health care for pregnant and lying-in women, infants and other special groups.

13. Clinical nutritionist: to evaluate and prepare nutritious meals for inpatients and nursing home staff.

14, nutrition caterer: professional nutrition catering in enterprises, kindergartens and schools.

Career prospects

Nutritionist is a comprehensive occupation, which combines the characteristics of chefs, medical practitioners, health care professionals, psychologists, Chinese medicine conditioning and other occupations. He is not only a food expert, but also a professional knowledge in nutrition fortification, nutrition evaluation and testing and other related fields.

China is now in a period of rapid economic development, and various related configurations are also catching up with the pace of the economy. The birth of nutritionists is also due to the level of economic development. Compared with some developed countries, the development of dietitian industry in China is relatively backward.

There are relatively few nutritionists in China. According to statistics, there are about 4,000 professional nutrition practitioners in China at present, that is to say, there is only one nutritionist for every 300,000 people. At present, there are at least 4 million to 5 million nutritionists in China, and the development prospect is still considerable.