Dietetics Academy

 

The Iowa State University Dietetic Internship (DI) began as an AP4 program in 1989. It meets the performance requirements for experience programs for students who have completed the academic requirements of the American Dietetic Association (ADA). The internship is administered through the Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition and interns are admitted to Iowa State University (ISU) as undergraduate students. Students successfully completing the internship will be eligible to take the registration examination administered by the Commission on Dietetic Registration (CDR). Successful completion of the internship and the registration examination meet the requirements to be a Registered Dietitian (RD).

One group of twenty students is enrolled in the program from January through June and another group of twenty from June through December. Throughout the program, students meet regularly with ISU faculty to discuss program progress. The dates for the next classes are, tentatively, January 7, 2008 through June 20, 2008 and June 8 through November 21, 2008.

The Dietetic Internship Program at Iowa State University is currently granted initial accreditation status until 2008 by The Commission on Accreditation for Dietetics Education of the American Dietetic Association (CADE), 120 South Riverside Plaza, Suite 2000, Chicago, IL 60606-6995, 312/899-4876.

This full-time, generalist DI program offers approximately 960 hours of supervised practice in medical nutrition therapy, community nutrition and foodservice management. This generalist program meets these CADE competencies: Core Competencies 1- 46; Specialty Competencies: NT 3, 6, 9, CO 2, 8, FS 2, 3, and BE3. (See this webpage: http://www.eatright.org/ada/files/2002rdfksc.pdf, pages 3 – 7.)