UC San Diego Health Dietetic Internship

UC San Diego Health offers a 43-week dietetic internship with a Medical Nutrition Therapy concentration in a progressive academic medical center environment. As San Diego’s only academic medical center, UC San Diego Health is the region’s premier destination for those requiring complex multidisciplinary care. It includes hospitals and specialty care centers at two campuses (in La Jolla and Hillcrest) and outpatient clinics across San Diego County. For more information on each location, visit our locations page.

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 2017-2018 Class of Dietetic Interns:

Amy Cochran, Montclair State University
Emily Jocham, Oregon State University
Rebecca Kallet, Colorado State University
Diana Licalzi, Simmons College
Melissa McFarland, Simmons College
Kira Minot, Cal Poly San Luis Obispo
Traci Roberts, San Diego State University
Nicholas Shields, San Diego State University
Kelsey Theisen, Bastyr University
Yasemin Unal, University of Maryland

How to Apply

The UC San Diego Health Dietetic Internship uses the online centralized internship application, DICAS, and can be viewed in the Application Procedure section.

For further information email Internship Director, Betty Garrity MPH, RD at bgarrity@ucsd.edu.