1-2 week rotations at various clinics and several of the area hospitals: Assess and educate clients in various settings, including: Develop, prepare, cost and market specialty menu items, monitor sanitation, conduct in-service at hospital foodservice setting.Electives (1-2 weeks) Gain more experience in your areas of interest. Students can plan experiences anywhere in the country under the direction of a RDN. Some examples include: Deepen skills by managing in-patient nutrition care at one of the seven area hospitals. Those students in the MS-DI with a concentration in Public Health Nutrition or in the dual MS-MPH-DI program will complete a 7-week block-field experience the first or second summer. This provides students with experience in the public health nutrition workforce. This 7 week experience counts as 7 weeks of the Dietetic Internship. The student participates in the selection of this experience which can take place anywhere in the country.
Select experiences in the Knoxville area from the following list: