Starting from September 2025, the BTS in Dietetics enters a new era. With a program designed to address current challenges in public health, sustainable nutrition and professional practices.
This updated program, which will be applied to new entrants, offers comprehensive and structured training built around five main pillars.
Students affected by this reform will benefit from better-distributed instruction of approximately 1650 hours. It now includes a module dedicated to the Therapeutic Patient Education (TPE).
I invite you to explore in detail this new BTS Dietetics program that will best prepare you for your future profession.
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1. The 5 competency blocks of the BTS in Dietetics
The framework now relies on a competency block structure.
This educational approach allows precise targeting of the skills expected of a BTS Dietetics student in the various domains involved in the profession:
- Block 1: General education
This section includes English (50 hours, level B2), the professional environment and economics and management. This subject provides essential skills in management and financial management. - Block 2: Biology and pathophysiology
An intensive program spread over 400 hours. It helps develop scientific communication and the presentation of medical analyses. - Block 3: The dietetic care approach
This block is dedicated to learning techniques for nutritional support, including digital tools. These techniques are essential for establishing personalized patient care and stress the therapeutic relationship. - Block 4: Healthy and sustainable eating
Spread over 490 hours, this component addresses nutritional recommendations, dietary balance, and the integration of sustainability criteria into food choices. It prepares students to advise on eating practices that are respectful of the environment. - Block 5: Public health
With an average of 430 hours of instruction, this block aims to train future dietitians in the issues of prevention and health education. It includes concepts of public health intervention and management of therapeutic education programs.
2. A strengthened scientific foundation
Scientific subjects form the core of the BTS Dietetics curriculum. They provide the essential knowledge needed to understand how the human body functions and the impact of diet on health.
In this new program, the emphasis is on the interdisciplinarity and scientific rigor.
Learning begins with a solid foundation in anatomy, biochemistry and physiology. These disciplines make it possible to understand the structure of organs and the mechanisms of the different systems (digestive, nervous, hormonal, etc.).
Students explore essential biochemical reactions, such as the metabolism of carbohydrates, lipids and proteins, and analyze how these transformations influence health and well-being.
Beyond the scientific foundations, the pathophysiology module provides insight into the body’s dysfunctions. The study of diseases such as diabetes or digestive disorders helps to understand the relevance of different diets and nutritional care.
This scientific foundation prepares students to integrate an up-to-date clinical dimension into their future practice, notably concerning the intestinal microbiota.
3. A specialized training in nutrition and therapeutic dietetics
Nutrition and food
This academic module of the BTS Dietetics explores individuals’ nutritional needs according to their age, lifestyle and health conditions.
The training also includes knowledge of food and food microbiology.
ATA: Food Technology Activities
Delivered as cooking classes, the ATAs consist of learning various culinary techniques to prepare balanced meals, while adapting to various constraints : hygiene, costs and specific therapeutic diets.
Average hours: 4 hours per week in the 1st and 2nd year of the BTS in Dietetics.
Therapeutic dietetics
In the 2nd year of the BTS, therapeutic dietetics takes over with the study of diets adapted to medical conditions: allergies, intolerances, metabolic diseases…
The combined theoretical and practical approach allows students to experiment with intervention strategies with patients using personalized nutrition plans.
Here, the new Patient Therapeutic Education (ETP) section of 40 hours strengthens the relational aspect. It emphasizes the importance of prevention and education in the care pathway.
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4. Diverse internships for practical field experience
An enriching immersion
Internships make up an important part of the dietetics program, offering students an immersion in varied professional environments.
The total allocation of 20 weeks of internships is now designed to address collective and individual aspects of the profession.
This section requires significant research autonomy.
Collective catering
Unlike the previous BTS Dietetics reference framework, where this internship took place in two parts totaling 6 weeks, the reform reorganizes this experience.
From now on, this internship takes place in a single 4-week period in the first year. It is intended to provide a practical view of a collective catering service while optimizing the distribution of internship weeks across the entire curriculum.
Hospital setting and therapeutic dietetics
In the second year, students complete two internships in hospital settings, each lasting 5 weeks: hospitals, clinics, nursing homes (EHPAD), treatment centers…
These placements enable them to apply the knowledge gained in therapeutic dietetics and to confront clinical realities.
Scheduling them over two separate periods in different facilities offers a better understanding of the highly varied care settings.
Public health
Finally, a placement focused on public health of 6 weeks, spread over the two years: for example, 3 weeks at the end of the first year and 3 weeks in the second year, or a split of 4+2 weeks.
This placement included in the dietetics curriculum offers students the opportunity to work on intervention projects, healthy eating awareness and nutrition education within various organizations (local authorities, associations…).
5. A modernized evaluation of the BTS in Dietetics and customizable options
Exam procedures
Another new feature of the BTS Dietetics program is the assessment methods and the introduction of optional electives that give students the opportunity to express their personality.
The BTS examination components are conducted more in line with the professional world:
- English exam : The modern language assessment is now focused on professional practice in two stages, one part of which includes an in-course continuous assessment (CCF); in total the test lasts 45 minutes.
- Biology and pathophysiology applied to dietetics : 4-hour written exam
- Design and development of a healthy, sustainable, and appropriate diet : 4-hour written exam, part of which includes a CCF assessment.
- Mémoire professionnel ou Élaboration et mise en œuvre d’une démarche de soin diététique et nutritionnel : Intégré dans les blocs de compétences, le mémoire consiste à rédiger un rapport d’environ 20 pages. Ce travail de réflexion, à partir des expériences de stages, doit démontrer la capacité d’analyse, de synthèse et d’argumentation.
- Public health interventions in the fields of dietetics and nutrition: The exam is conducted in two distinct stages. A 30-minute oral exam, then the candidate designs a culinary workshop lasting 3 hours, within the framework of a prescribed public health intervention context.
Optional electives
Only points above 10, the average, count toward the overall grade.
- Additional foreign language: In addition to English, a second language may be offered, with an oral exam of approximately 15 minutes.
- Student engagement: based on personal or associative initiatives, with a 20-minute oral presentation and a component evaluated in the form of CCF.
