Internship rotations

Three versatile rotations tailored to your interests and strengths, providing you with a comprehensive, accredited supervised practice experience led by dedicated preceptors in collaboration with other healthcare teams.

1,000 hours of planned experiences

Experience Hours
Clinical rotation 560
Food service / management rotation 240
Community rotation 160
Alternative practice experiences -
Orientation 24
Weekly Zoom meetings 16

Clinical rotation

Schedule:

  • 15 weeks
  • 560 hours

Your individual training schedule will be developed by the program director and site preceptors.

Features:

  • 2 weeks of staff relief to practice entry-level responsibilities in an area of your interest

You'll:

  • Apply the nutrition care process
  • Navigate electronic health records
  • Increase in responsibility and patient interaction
  • Provide medical nutrition therapy interventions in acute-care settings

Food service / management rotation

Schedule:

  • 6 weeks
  • 240 hours

Your individual training schedule will be developed by the program director and site preceptors.

Features:

  • Quality improvement projects
  • In-service on hiring and training
  • In a hospital or large-size production setting

You'll:

Collaborate and practice leadership roles:

  • Food safety and sustainability
  • Problem solving and decision making
  • Menu development and procurement
  • Budgeting and financial analysis and application

Community rotation

Schedule:

  • 4 weeks
  • 160 hours

Your individual training schedule will be developed by the program director and site preceptors.

Features:

  • Includes two weeks at Nevada Women, Infants and Children (WIC)

You'll:

Spend two weeks focusing on an area of your interest:

  • Eating disorders
  • Sports or community nutrition
  • Diabetes or weight management
  • Infants and toddlers with disabilities

Additional training

Ethics | Diversity, equity and inclusion | Public policy | Multimedia patient education | Professional and presentation skills

 

Rotation sites

You'll enjoy unmatched outdoor recreation opportunities, vibrant communities sparkling with lights and abuzz with events, and over 300 days of sunshine a year during your rotations at our internship sites in Reno and Las Vegas.

Clinical and food service rotation sites

Your rotation sites will be determined by our program director after the match is complete.

Carson Tahoe Regional Healthcare.

Carson Tahoe Regional Medical Center

Carson City, Nevada


  • Providing care for Carson City and surrounding region
  • 159 acute-care hospital beds
Northern Nevada Medical Center.

Northern Nevada Medical Center

Sparks, Nevada


  • 124 acute-care hospital beds
Northern Nevada Sierra Medical Center.

Northern Nevada Sierra Medical Center

Reno, Nevada


  • Specialty and acute care
  • 170 acute-care hospital beds
  • Serving Reno/Sparks since 2022
Renown Regional Medical Center.

Renown Regional Medical Center

Reno, Nevada


  • Region's only Level II trauma center
  • Extensive specialty areas
  • Teaching hospital
  • 985 hospital beds
St.Rose Dominican Hospital, San Martin Campus.

St. Rose Dominican, San Martín Hospital

Las Vegas, Nevada


  • One of Dignity Health's three hospitals
  • 147 acute-care hospital beds
St.Rose Dominican Hospital, Siena Campus.

St. Rose Dominican, Siena Hospital

Henderson, Nevada


  • One of Dignity Health's three hospitals
  • 326 acute-care hospital beds
University Medical Center.

University Medical Center

Las Vegas, Nevada


  • Nevada's only Level I trauma center
  • Verified burn center
  • Teaching hospital
  • Transplant center
Valley Hospital Medical Center.

Valley Hospital Medical Center

Las Vegas, Nevada


  • Part of Valley Health System with six acute-care hospitals
  • 306 acute-care hospital beds
  • Teaching hospital
Veterans Affairs (VA) Sierra Nevada Healthcare System.

Ioannis A. Lougaris VA Medical Center

Reno, Nevada


  • Serving a 20-county area
  • 124 acute-care hospital beds
  • Outpatient and outreach programs

Community rotation sites

Your rotation sites will be determined by our program director after the match is complete.

Specialty clinical and community sites

Your rotation sites will be determined by our program director after the match is complete.