Internship Experience

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Internship Experience
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• Decide what is it that you want?
• Where do you want it Location, Location?
• Consider Dietetic Internship placement in New
  Orleans at Tulane University!!
• Great Experience in community agencies?
• Meeting people from many places?
• New adventures?
• The South waits you with a big heart, great
  culture and a fantastic internship program,
• tailored just for you !

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Preparation

• Start early
• Collect information
• Ask and take advice
• Dietetics Director
• past students
• Cheer up! We have done it too!

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Considerations/New Orleans/Tulane

• Excellent program--community focus--Sept thru
  June (apply in February-before the computer
  matching deadline)
• Great variety of experiences and outstanding
  preceptors
• Student Loan
• With 6 graduate credits each semester, you can
  apply for student loan (private financial
  aid)You can defer previous loans.
• Housing
• Dormitory (Deming)-next to Tulane Hospital / or
  renting apartment
• Transportation - own car needed
• Natural events no hurricane! (maybe a little
  one, nothing you cant handle)
• Bachelors degree and DPD Verification Statement
  needed
• Tuition 9000 per year
• Shoppinghttp//www.wholefoodsmarket.com/ - in
  two locationswww.Localharvest.com - farmers
  marketshttp//www.magazinestreet.com/?merchants-
  the one and only Magazine Sthttp//goneworleans.
  about.com/od/restaurants/a/uptownrest.htm- Uptown
  cafes
• Lots of Fun http//www.neworleanscvb.com/s
  tatic/index.cfm/contentID/100/sectionID/1/subsecti
  onID/100http//www.mardigrasneworleans.com/mardi1
  .htmlMardi Gras, Jazz Festival, Cajun food and
  culture

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Map of New Orleans
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Rotation Facilities

• Tulane Hospital
• East Jeff Hospital
• West Jeff Hospital
• St Tammany Hospital
• Slidell Memorial Hospital
• Ochsner Foundation Hospital/Clinic
• Davita Dialysis
• DCI Dialysis

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Rotation Facilities-cont.

• St Bernard Council on Aging
• St Bernard Health Clinic
• OLOL Childrens Hospital
• Tulane Lakeside Hospital
• Lambeth House
• St Charles Schools
• St Bernard Schools
• Archdiocese Schools

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Rotation Facilities-cont.

• One Shell Square
• LSU Ag
• LSU Diabetes clinic
• State Health Dept-WIC
• Region III-WIC
• NO AIDS Task Force
• North Lake SSC/ GNOSSC
• Pennington Research

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Tulane Hospital
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Tentative fall rotations

• Orientation
• MNT
• Staff relief
• Specialty (choose your own rotation)
• Xmas break (2 weeks)
• LDA convention
• Hospital Food Service
• School Food Service
• Lambeth House Food Service
• HIV
• WIC
• WIC Administration/State Health Dept
• Bariatrics
• Cardiac Rehab

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Tentative fall rotations - cont

• Renal
• Transplant
• Developmental Disability
• Edible Schoolyard ??
• Long term care
• Research-Tulane
• Research-Pennington
• Louisiana State University Agricultural center
  /EFNEP
• Diabetes
• Pediatrics
• NICU
• Psych ??
• Outpatient counseling
• Council on Aging
• Second Harvest food bank
• Wellness

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New Orleans/ Spanish quarter
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Garden District / Street Car
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Uptown/Garden district
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Class 37 Wellness Experience
Class 37 Wellness Rotation
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Class 36-Graduated August 2009
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Class 35 - Graduated April 2009
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Information

• Marsha E Piacun, MBA, RD, LDNDietetic Internship
  DirectorTulane University
• E-Mail mpiacun_at_tulane.edu
• Cell [phone]
• Present and previous interns will tell you about
  their experiences.
• Email your requestsomeone will get back to you.
• (Thanks to Monika Kanyo for creating this
  presentation-now modified)