Curriculum
This program has both a Medical Nutrition Therapy and a Pediatric concentration and the curriculum is divided and progesses through the following order:
- 2 Weeks Orientation
Gives the interns the opportunity to interact and team build with each other. Skills such as chart documentation, interviewing and counseling skills and medical terminology are developed to prepare the interns for their clinical rotations.
22 Weeks Clinical Nutrition
Basic Clinical (4 weeks): Covers areas of cardiac, diabetes and food allergies. Encourages experiences with Certified Diabetes Educators.
Intermediate Clinical (8 weeks): Includes area of oncology, HIV, pulmonary, enteral, and gastrointestinal nutrition. The intern will progress to more complicated nutritional cases and interventions. The MNT emphasis is completed in the adult environment and the Pediatric emphasis is completed in a pediatric hospital.
Advanced Clinical (10 weeks): During this time, the intern will rotate to specialty hospitals and centers to obtain experiences in pediatrics, renal, Long Term Care, nutrition support and staff relief. The cases become more complex and the intern learns how to function independently.
8 Weeks Food Service Management
The intern will learn management philosophies and techniques necessary to manage employees in dietetics and food service. Leadership, financial planning, and human resource management skills will be developed. This rotation uses the tools of case studies and hands-on experience to learn production, retail and patient services skills.
5 Weeks Community Nutrition / Electives
This rotation provides experiences in a variety of community settings including wellness, Stop Hunger, out-patient clinics, schools, feeding programs, and maternal-child nutrition. The rotation takes the interns out of the in-patient setting and exposes them to opportunities in the out-patient setting.
During the Elective Rotations, the intern plans this part of the internship on an individual basis. The goal is to obtain experience in either non-traditional roles for RD's such as eating disorders or entrepreneurship or to revisit an area that is interesting to the intern.
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