This course aims to develop the student's skills as a scholar practitioner who can work with individuals, and as a group facilitator in autonomous clinical and community settings; grounded in functional medicine principles, nutritional therapy draws on current and emerging research to inform choices of assessment methods, and prescriptions for diet, nutraceuticals and lifestyle change in order to manage patients' health concerns and promote optimal health through all life stages; in addition, the course enables the student to develop professionally and personally as a leader in research, clinical governance and policy, and within the nutritional therapy profession, while advancing their own professional practice; they learn to present clinical and theoretical concepts in an inter-professional forum that fosters critical debate, original and independent thinking, peer mentoring and supervision, and reflexivity.