Rotation Schedule
Rotation Schedule
Community Nutrition Rotation
The internship begins in mid-August with a two-week orientation on the Cornell campus. Theinterns then engage in coursework and in community nutrition supervised practice rotations in Ithaca, New York, nearby areas (Syracuse, Montour Falls, etc) and Rochester, NY. Each Monday, interns come to the Cornell campus for six credits of graduate coursework in Community Nutrition in Action: Theory to Practice and Introduction to Community Nutrition Research, and nutrition research seminars. Interns also participate in a communications workshop with practitioners and graduate students to enhance their basic counseling skills and in a workshop to strengthen their leadership skills. For their community rotations, interns spend four days per week at one community agency or program, which offers an in-depth experience in community dietetics. Interns participate in the entire program development process, from assessing needs to planning, implementing and evaluating a program. Each intern conducts a research project to enhance the program development process. Interns, thus, contribute meaningfully to a community nutrition program while they develop the skills needed to be effective community practitioners. WIC, School Lunch, Cornell Cooperative Extension, Wegmans Markets, Employee Wellness programs such as MVP Preferred Care in Rochester and Cornell University, and the Nutrition Program for the Elderly are used for placements.
Management and Clinical Nutrition Rotations
In late January, interns begin their clinical and management supervised practice rotations at The University of Rochester Medical Center, which consistently ranks among "America's Best Hospitals" in a US and News World Report. Among the specialty rotations available to interns are medicine, surgery, pediatrics, organ transplantation, adult and pediatric endocrinology, pediatrics and specialty outpatient clinics, oncology, renal dialysis, psychiatry and eating disorders, intensive care, burn care, cardiology, outpatient cardiac rehabilitation, diabetes, and a research rotation in the NIH-funded General Clinical Research Center. The management rotation includes in-depth experience in state-of-the-art room service food production, retail, purchasing, problem-solving research and employee nutrition education through the development, management, and production of a one-day Food Fair. Interns also have a choice for the one week "staff-relief" rotation.
The internship begins in mid-August with a two-week orientation on the Cornell campus. Theinterns then engage in coursework and in community nutrition supervised practice rotations in Ithaca, New York, nearby areas (Syracuse, Montour Falls, etc) and Rochester, NY. Each Monday, interns come to the Cornell campus for six credits of graduate coursework in Community Nutrition in Action: Theory to Practice and Introduction to Community Nutrition Research, and nutrition research seminars. Interns also participate in a communications workshop with practitioners and graduate students to enhance their basic counseling skills and in a workshop to strengthen their leadership skills. For their community rotations, interns spend four days per week at one community agency or program, which offers an in-depth experience in community dietetics. Interns participate in the entire program development process, from assessing needs to planning, implementing and evaluating a program. Each intern conducts a research project to enhance the program development process. Interns, thus, contribute meaningfully to a community nutrition program while they develop the skills needed to be effective community practitioners. WIC, School Lunch, Cornell Cooperative Extension, Wegmans Markets, Employee Wellness programs such as MVP Preferred Care in Rochester and Cornell University, and the Nutrition Program for the Elderly are used for placements.
Management and Clinical Nutrition Rotations
In late January, interns begin their clinical and management supervised practice rotations at The University of Rochester Medical Center, which consistently ranks among "America's Best Hospitals" in a US and News World Report. Among the specialty rotations available to interns are medicine, surgery, pediatrics, organ transplantation, adult and pediatric endocrinology, pediatrics and specialty outpatient clinics, oncology, renal dialysis, psychiatry and eating disorders, intensive care, burn care, cardiology, outpatient cardiac rehabilitation, diabetes, and a research rotation in the NIH-funded General Clinical Research Center. The management rotation includes in-depth experience in state-of-the-art room service food production, retail, purchasing, problem-solving research and employee nutrition education through the development, management, and production of a one-day Food Fair. Interns also have a choice for the one week "staff-relief" rotation.