Department of Exercise and Nutrition Sciences
Training. Inquiry. Innovation.

Dietetic Internship

Curriculum

Clinical Assessment (Fall)

Supervised Practice

  • Clinical Orientation (2 weeks)
  • Acute Care: 7 weeks
  • Long Term Care: 3 weeks
  • Additional rotations:
    • Outpatient Dialysis Center: 1 week
    • Clinical Nutrition Management : 1 week
    • Selected Assignment / Other : 1 week

(Total Hours: 312; practice consists of 4 days per week at 6 hours/day)

Didactic

  • Focus: Topics in Domain I and Domain II and related topics
  • Practice Exam for Domains I and II

Graduate Courses

Food Service and Management (Spring)

Supervised Practice

  • Food Service and Management Orientation: 2 weeks
  • Institutional Food Service: 3 weeks
  • Community Food Service: 7 weeks
  • Additional rotations:
    • WIC: 1 week
    • RPCI: 1 week
    • Pediatrics: 1 week
    • Selected Assignment / Other : 1 week

(Total Hours: 288; practice consists of 4 days per week at 6 hours/day)

Didactic

  • Focus: Topics in Domain IV and Domain V and related topics
  • Practice Exam for Domains IV and V

Graduate Courses

Nutrition and Community Wellness, Research (Summer)

Supervised Practice

  • Community Wellness: 8 weeks
  • Research: 8 weeks
  • Critical Care: 1 week
  • NTR 524 Team Project : 2 weeks

(Total Hours: 448; practice consists of 5 days per week at 8 hours per day; includes 3 days per week for community wellness and 2 days per week for research)

Didactic

  • Focus: Topics in Domain III, related topics, community nutrition topics found throughout the other domains and community wellness (public health, social and preventive medicine) topics
  • Practice Exam for Domain III

Graduate Courses

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