Dietetic Internship
UC San Diego Medical Center offers a 50-week dietetic internship with a Nutrition Therapy concentration in a progressive academic medical center environment. The medical center is a large tertiary care hospital that provides the highest level of specialty care in the region.
Under the supervision of Registered Dietitians, dietetic interns will rotate through experiences in clinical nutrition, food service management, ambulatory/community nutrition and research. Upon satisfactory completion of the internship, dietetic interns are eligible for active membership in the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics and to take the Registration Examination for Dietitians.
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Congratulations to our 2013-2014 class of dietetic interns:
- Erika Hayden, California State University Los Angeles
- Carling Slawson, San Diego State University
- Shelayne Werfel, Cal Poly San Luis Obispo
- Erica Trimble, University of California, Davis
- Brittney Mc Getrick, San Diego State University
- Samantha Montag, Point Loma Nazarene University
How to Apply
The UC San Diego Medical Center Dietetic Internship Program uses the online centralized internship application, DICAS, and can be viewed in the
Application Procedure section.
For further information email Internship Coordinator Betty Garrity at bgarrity@ucsd.edu.