The previous post looked at the dietetic internship (DI) as a supervised practice program. This post will examine who's doing the supervising. In my case, it's a joint effort between the University of Minnesota and The Emily Program (UMN-TEP).
Who runs a dietetic internship?
Health care facilities and universities are prime candidates for a DI. For example, in Minnesota, DIs are headquartered in the Minneapolis VA Health Care System, Concordia College, and Saint Mary's Hospital in Rochester. Every DI is coordinated by a full-time program director, who sets up the curriculum, schedules rotations, keeps in touch with the preceptors, and so much more.
I mentioned in the previous post that each DI has competencies in clinical, community, and food service. In addition, each DI has an emphasis. Emphases range from more of the same (Food Service or Community) to something different: Disease Prevention/Health Promotion, Information Technology, Sports Nutrition, and so on.
UMN-TEP is the first DI in the nation to have an Eating Disorders emphasis. Many DIs include eating disorders in their curriculum, whether on an inpatient basis or by sending interns to an outpatient facility like the Melrose Institute for a couple of weeks. In this DI, however, we interns get a full nine weeks in eating disorders by cycling through the adult and adolescent facilities and various outpatient programs at The Emily Program. I am currently three weeks into this rotation.
So there you have it, a rough sketch of what the dietetic internship is all about. Questions?
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