CSU Fresno Dietetic Internship

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CSU Fresno Dietetic Internship
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Program Mission

• to provide a high-quality post-baccalaureate
  educational opportunity that prepares competent
  entry-level dietitians with the knowledge and
  skills required for providing food and nutrition
  services to the population of the San Joaquin
  Valley.

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Program Goals

• 1. To prepare graduates to successfully meet the
  requirements for dietetic registration.
• 2. To prepare graduates who will be able to meet
  the employment requirements for dietitians.
• 3. To provide a supply of well-trained dietetics
  practitioners who will serve the population of
  the San Joaquin Valley.
• 4. To prepare dietetic professionals who
  participate in continual professional growth
  through educational opportunities, including
  graduate studies, and realize career goals.

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Program Facts

• Concentration Culturally Competent Health
  Promotion/Disease Prevention
• Program Length
• 9 months
• fall semester
• spring semester
• Program Size
• 10 interns/ year

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Curriculum

• Medical Nutrition Therapy
• Food Systems Management
• Community Nutrition
• Elective

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Curriculum

• Medical Nutrition Therapy 12 weeks
• Large and small hospital clinical nutrition
• Nutrition Support
• Diabetes Out Patient Program
• Dialysis
• Rehabilitation
• Consulting

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Interns and Preceptor VA hospital
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Clinical Rotation VA Hospital
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Newspaper Column
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Nutrition Education
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Curriculum

• Food Systems Management 11 weeks
• Hospital Food Service
• Gibson Farm Market
• Corrections Food Service
• Senior Feeding
• School Food Service

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In The Kitchen
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Theme Day
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Theme Day
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Theme Day
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Curriculum

• Community Nutrition 6 weeks
• WIC
• UC Cooperative Extension
• Area Agency on Aging
• Outpatient Counseling

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Working with WIC Families
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Nutrition in the Classroom
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Community Education
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Hmong Health Fair
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Curriculum

• Elective 2 weeks
• Examples
• Dairy Council of California
• Pediatrics- Childrens Hospital Central
  California
• Research
• Burns, Trauma
• Other

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Graduate Classes

• Topics in Nutrition
• Nutrition Counseling
• Food and Nutrition Resource Management
• Seminars
• 7 graduate units towards Masters Degree

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Typical Week

• Rotating Schedule
• 1, 2 or 3 Week Rotations
• Tues, Wed, Thurs, Fri
• in facilities
• hours assigned by preceptor
• work with or under supervision of preceptor

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Typical Week

• Monday intern and graduate classes
• Work full-time and School full-time

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Selection Criteria

• 3.0 GPA last 60 units
• Recommended GRE scores 480V/580Q
• Work Experience in Dietetics

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Application process

• Standard ADA application and reference form
• Application to CSU graduate program
• GRE test is required
• See website for up to date application procedures
• Phone interview for candidates under consideration

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Cost

• See cost sheet on website for detailed list of
  costs and fees
• Standard CSU graduate tuition for fall and spring
  semester
• Approximately 5600
• Stipend from VA health care system
• Approximately 1300

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Who Are We Looking For ?

• Students who are
• Independent
• Self-starters
• Responsible, Resourceful, Respectful

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For more information, contact

• Mollie Smith, MS, RD
• Dept. of Food Science Nutrition
• 5300 N. Campus Drive, M/S FF 17
• Fresno, CA 93740-8019
• [phone]
• Email mollies_at_csufresno.edu
• Web http//cast.csufresno.edu/fsn

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Master of Science Degree

• Food and Nutritional Sciences

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Selection Criteria

• 3.0 GPA last 60 units
• GRE scores 480V/580Q
• Career Goals

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Requirements

• 30 units minimum
• 12 units core
• statistics
• research methods in food and nutrition
• seminar (3)
• food nutrition and health
• 12 units elective
• 6 units thesis

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For Information Contact

• Erin Dormedy, PhD
• Dept. of Food Science Nutrition
• 5300 N. Campus Drive, M/S FF 17
• Fresno, CA 93740-8019
• [phone]
• edormedy_at_csufresno.edu