University of Nevada, Reno's Dietetic Internship Program is a post-baccalaureate supervised practice program accredited by the Accreditation Council for Education in Nutrition and Dietetics (ACEND), the accrediting agency for the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics.
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The program is administratively housed at the University within the Department of Nutrition in the College of Agriculture, Biotechnology, and Natural Resources (CABNR).
The program has a clinical focus with a concentration area of Medical Nutrition Therapy. It provides 1,000 hours of supervised practice experience in each of its full-time (40 hours per week), (25 weeks) rotations. Of the 1,000 hours, 600 are devoted to clinical experience, 240 to food service and administration and 160 to community activities.
The program accepts 16 interns per year: eight begin their rotations in March and eight in August. Individual internship and community rotation schedules designed by the internship director and site preceptors are distributed on the first day of the rotation.
In Reno, internship positions are available in the following facilities:
In Las Vegas, internship positions are available.
Reno and Las Vegas internship facilities and community rotations are listed below. When applying to the program, applicants may state a city preference, and efforts are made to accommodate intern preferences.
The program has trained and continues to train highly competent intern graduates.
Graduates of the internship program successfully complete the supervised practice experiences necessary to acquire the ACEND 2022 Core Competencies for the Registered Dietitian, are eligible to sit for the Registered Dietitian (RD) credentialing examination and are prepared to seek employment in the field with sound entry-level skills.
Program outcomes data are available on request.
*This is the last rotation before the 1/01/2024 deadline that does not require a Master’s degree to be eligible to take the CDR credentialing exam.
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Reno Internship Facilities
Las Vegas Internship Facilities
Reno Community Rotations
Las Vegas Community Rotations
Dietetic Internship Program
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