Introduction The Clinical Nutrition Department within the Ministry of Health consists of different nutritional services offered to patients of all ages within the UAE. This department has the responsibility of developing and implementing different nutrition plans that are used by hospitals in offering clinical nutrition services to patients. This analytical paper presents a comprehensive practicum observation report of the Clinical Nutrition Department within the Ministry of Health in UAE. Observation The main activities within this department are wellness programs and nutritional service provision. The focus on wellness and nutrition programs revolved around the enhancement of the health of the citizens of the UAE. The department addresses the direct costs in nutritional service delivery, such as expenditure directed towards start-up, equipment, facilities, management, time and operating costs of each nutrition program. There are comprehensive rules within the department that govern the activities of the personnel besides their relevance in role execution. These rules are clearly written in department’s information board. The employees were generally at ease with the rules since they have internalised the need for efficiency as a personal initiative. This department creates, implement, and review different clinical nutritional activities within the UAE. Being a government controlled department, the progress in this department is closely monitored by the technical director who is an appointee of the Minister of Health (UAE Ministry of Health 2014, par. 8). The technical director has the responsibility of micromanaging every nutritional policy and classification of the clinical dietary proposals. Since the department offers very sensitive support services in the form of clinical nutritional needs, it has created a comprehensive mandate of overseeing the nutritional programs and their effectiveness through the dynamic team of experts. Same as other departments, the Clinical Nutrition Department has computerised all its records through the ministry intranet system which is very secure and easy to use. Basically, the leadership hierarchy within department consists of a general director who reports directly to the minister of health. There are four deputy directors under the general director. Below the deputy directors are the department supervisors and other employees. After spending five consecutive days in this department, which operates for five working days in a week, I noted that the activities in this department are highly centralised since the personnel had internalised the need for competency in performing different duties. Among the duties I observed within this department are discussed below. Clinical nutritional plans The Clinical Nutrition Department has the sole responsibility within the Ministry of Health the duty of developing different clinical nutritional plans that the health care institutions within the UAE use to address any nutritional concerns of their patients. Being a department consisting of nutritional personnel, the employees have the responsibility of addressing the pertinent issues in any proposed plan within the rules of nutritional services provision. After spending four consecutive days in the Clinical Nutrition Department, I observed that the personnel attend meeting after every two days to report the pro