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Cedar Crest College Dietetic Internship
We are grateful to you for agreeing to precept
interns in the CCC supervised practice program.
 Preceptors are an essential and integral component
of dietetics education.
 We appreciate that you accepted the role of
preceptor in addition to the traditional
responsibilities of your job and we are thrilled at
your willingness to support nutrition education and
help develop skilled practitioners.
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Meet the DI Team
Introduction to Supervised Practice
Program Overview
Roles of the DI Team, Intern, and Preceptor
Benefits of Precepting
CCC’s Supervised Practice Specifics
Communication/Contact
Question and Answer
Kati Fosselius, MS, RD, LDN
Director
 Background in chronic disease
prevention, pediatric weight
management, public health, and
eating disorders. Previous preceptor
for community nutrition for Cedar
Crest College and other internship
programs. Extensive experience as
an educator at all age levels.
Tara L. Miltenberger, RD, LDN
Distance Coordinator
 Background in adult and pediatric
weight management, bariatric surgery,
sports nutrition. Previous preceptor
for community nutrition for Cedar
Crest College and other internship
programs.
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In order to become a Registered Dietitian (RD),
students must complete the following process:
 Complete a minimum of a bachelor’s degree at a U.S.
regionally accredited university or college and course work
accredited or approved by CADE of the ADA.
 Complete a CADE-accredited supervised practice program
at a health-care facility, community agency, or a foodservice
corporation or combined with undergraduate or graduate
studies.
 Pass a national examination administered by the
Commission on Dietetic Registration (CDR).
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This represents a crucial step in developing the
intern from “beginner” to “entry-level”
competence.
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Competence is defined as the quality or state
of having requisite or adequate ability or
qualities.
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Supervised practice provides an opportunity
for interns to practice dietetics-related
activities under supervision while building
skills, gradually increasing workload and
complexity of work, and applying didactic
learning to real-life dietetics practice.
 Upon culmination of each rotation, interns should
have developed the skills necessary for them to
perform your job in a satisfactory manner.
Speed
Competence
Independence/Problem-Solving
Proficiency
Responsibility/Workload
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Cedar Crest College Dietetic Internship (CCC
DI) is a full-time supervised practice program
with both onsite and distance tracks
 The onsite track accepts 10 interns each year
 The distance track accepts 15 interns each year
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The CCC DI offers 1200 hours of supervised
practice and is comprised of 4 rotations.
The rotations include:
 Clinical
 Food Service Management
 Community
 Community Concentration
Rotation/
Portion of DI
Supervised
Practice Hours
Didactic
Hours
Total
Weeks
Clinical
360
27
9
Food Service Management
360
27
9
Community
360
27
9
Community Concentration
120
9
3
Orientation
0
25
1
Vacation
0
0
4
1200
115
35
TOTALS
Ah Yo
Week 1
8/29/2011 Com. Ntr
Week 2
9/6/2011 Peak Ntr
Bornhoeft
Geidner
Pizza
Rossman
Tassoni
Sanders
Hamrick
Koutoulas
Parker
Rosenthal
Williams
Poliokova
Beute
Siekierski
Com. Ntr
FSM
FSM
FSM
Clinical
Clinical
FSM
Clinical
Clinical
Com. Ntr
Com. Ntr
Clinical
Clinical
Clinical
Amer
North
North
Glenview
Riddle
Med Ctr
West FL
Mills
Clare Oak
Sodexo
LA Dept
NYCH
Overlook
Mem
Penn SD
Penn SD
Wellness
of
Week 3
9/12/2011
Red Cross
Week 4
9/19/2011 Gold.Circ
WIC
Week 5
9/26/2011 Comm
Week 6
10/3/2011 Conc
Week 7
10/10/2011 Pueblo
Week 8
10/17/2011 County
Week 9
10/24/2011
Week 10
10/31/2011
Week 11
11/7/2011
Week 12
11/14/2011
Week 13
11/28/2011 FSM
Week 14
Week 15
12/5/2011 Colorado
12/12/2011 Springs
of GA
Kettering
Clin 2
Clinical
Multi
Rose
care
Clin LTC
Comm
Com
Conc
Vacation
1
Com. Ntr
1 Advocate
PSU
PSU
Com
Com
FSM
Scripps
Com
2
FSM
FSM
Clinical
FSM
FSM
Comm
FSM 1
FSM
FSM
Marple
Dodge
West FL
Mills
Clare Oak
Conc
Teremok
Overlook
Mem
County
2
WIC
WIC
Com
Com
Kettering
FSM
FSM 2
Denver
NYCH
Med Ctr
Public
Week 17
1/9/2012
Week 18
1/16/2012
PSU
PSU
Week 19
1/23/2012 FSM
Com
Com
Comm
Com. Ntr
Com. Ntr
Com. Ntr
Com. Ntr
Week 20
1/30/2012 Parkview
Conc
Conc
Conc
ACAC
Distr
FL Dept
AHA
PSU
PSU
Advocate
Fitness
Health
of Health
Vacation
Vacation
Vacation
Com. Ntr
NIFB
2/6/2012
Sloan
Clinical
FSM
1/2/2012
1
LA Dept
Brotman
Week 16
Week 21
Sloan
Health
1
GA
Week 22
2/13/2012 Vacation
Week 23
2/20/2012 Clinical
Clinical
Clinical
Clinical
Clinical 1
Week 24
2/27/2012 Parkview
Scripps
Phoebe
Phoebe
Thorek
Berks
Berks
School
Com. Ntr
Com Ntr
1
Com Ntr
WIC
Vacation
1 Com Ntr
1
Vacation
FSM
Com. Ntr
Week 25
3/5/2012
Com Ntr
Week 26
3/12/2012
Head
Week 27
3/19/2012
Start
Week 28
3/26/2012
Clinical 2
Vacation
Comm
Vacation
Vacation
Vacation
Week 29
4/2/2012
Kindred
Comm
Conc
Comm
Comm
Comm
Week 30
4/9/2012
Conc
Distr Health Conc
Conc
Week 31
4/16/2012
ACAC
Vacation
AHA
Com Ntr
Coop
2 Ext
Brotman
Com Ntr
WIC
Com Ntr
2
3 WIC
Vacation
WIC
Com Ntr
Vacation
Vacation
Private
Practice
Com
Com
Com
Com
Conc
Conc
Conc
Conc
Conc
NIFB
WIC
WIC
Kids Wt
Down
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Completion of the full-time DI is planned for
approximately 35 weeks or 8.75 months.
This includes:
 1 week of orientation
 30 weeks of supervised practice
 4 weeks of vacation.
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Rotations begin on August 29, 2011*
*Interns cannot begin supervised practice until
CCC has a signed Affiliation Agreement from
your agency!
http://www.cedarcrest.edu/ca/academics/nutrit
ion/preceptor.shtm
The 4 weeks of vacation includes:
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Labor Day – Monday, September 5, 2011 (1 day)
Thanksgiving Break - Wednesday, November 23, 2011 to
Sunday, November 27, 2011 (3 days)
Fall Floating Vacation Day* – Interns may choose 1
additional vacation day to occur during the first 15 weeks of
the internship (1 day)
Winter Break - Saturday, December 17, 2011 to Sunday,
January 1, 2012 (2 weeks or 10 days)
Spring Floating Vacation Week* - Interns may choose 1
additional vacation week or 5 days to occur during weeks 1630 of the internship. (5 days)
*Must be scheduled and approved by the preceptor and DI Team
prior to the start of the internship.
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Monitor progress of interns through their journal
entries and on-line evaluation forms.
Address any concerns raised by either the preceptor
or intern in a timely manner.
Incorporate preceptor feedback into the continuous
quality improvement process.
Work with preceptors to develop alternatives and
solutions to challenges and difficulties as they arise.
Communicate any changes in policy and
procedures, curriculum, rotation descriptions, or
competencies/learning outcomes with preceptors
and interns.
Facilitate didactic coursework and evaluation.
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Prepare for and participate in all supervised practice
activities.
Demonstrate professional attributes including
timeliness, organization, respect, a positive
attitude, motivation, open-mindedness, flexibility,
and patience.
Assume responsibility for their own learning and be
self-directed learners.
Communicate regularly with the preceptor
regarding expectations, progress, questions, and
difficulties.
Be respectful of the preceptor’s willingness to
precept.
Planner
 On a day-to-day basis, you are responsible for planning the experiences
and learning activities of the intern.
Role model
 You teach by example by exemplifying professional behaviors and the
principles outlined in the Code of Ethics.
Information provider
 You provide relevant information in your area of expertise and stay
current with recent developments and research.
Facilitator of learning
 You facilitate learning by coupling experiences and tools with guided
questioning and feedback.
Resource developer
 You help guide interns to the appropriate materials (current research,
protocols, practice guidelines, manuals, etc.) and other professionals.
Assessors of learning
 You are the front-line evaluator of interns’ learning and competence as
they progress through the supervised practice rotation.
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Present a positive attitude and commitment toward
the profession
Participate in local nutrition organizations and
continuing education
Use appropriate professional language
Demonstrate professional ethics in regard to
patient care and management decisions
Show respect for individual differences among
patients or employees
Show enthusiasm and patience
Create an atmosphere for open communication
View interns in a positive light – emphasize what interns know
and do correctly
 Support interns with appropriate, frequent feedback in a
timely fashion
 Use specifics with respect to praise or changes that need to
occur
 Allow interns to be creative while still meeting expectations
and performing professionally
 Challenge interns to perform by giving them increasing
responsibility
 Remember interns are preparing for entry level
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*Source: Bowling Green State University – Preceptor Handbook.
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Please remember that all e-mail
communication with interns must occur over a
secure network.
No personal email accounts may be used to
communicate with interns or DI Team.
Students should be using Cedar Crest email
addresses only.
CDR Dietetics Preceptor Training Course
 Free, on-line Dietetics Preceptor Training
Course is available to RDs as well to
preceptors who are not RDs.
 For RDs, 8 CPEUs are provided following
completion of the course.
http://cdrnet.educationdirector.com/
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Enhanced productivity and project
completion
Improved employee morale and performance
Alternative perspectives through fresh eyes
Challenge and variety
Professional development opportunities
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Access to CCC’s library
Open invitation to join all webinars and
additional professional development
opportunities
Access to free software downloads offered by
IT on mycedarcrest:
https://my.cedarcrest.edu/ics/IT/Free_Software
_Downloads.jnz
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Orientation of Interns
Complete checklist will be available online at
mycedarcrest:
https://my.cedarcrest.edu/ics
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Guides to the Rotation Process
 Rotation Descriptions
 Rotation Assignment Checklists
 Evaluation Forms
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Includes:
 Planned Experiences
▪ Planned experiences or activities that should satisfy the
desired competency or learning outcome
 Competency/Outcome
▪ Competencies or learning outcomes that are associated
with the selected planned experience
 Assessment Method
▪ The method and evaluator for the selected competency
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An example from the FSM Rotation Description:
Planned Experiences
Observe, participate
in, and oversee both
hot and cold
production.
Competency/
Outcome
DI 3.6: Coordinate
procurement,
production,
distribution and
service of goods and
services
Assessment Method
Preceptor evaluation
of observed intern
work using Food
Service Rotation
Evaluation.
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Provides a detailed description of each
assignment that interns are required to
complete as a learning experience and/or
means of assessing competencies/learning
outcomes.
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Group Community Presentations
 Design, implement, and evaluate 3 presentations or
nutrition education programs. Select a variety of age
groups and populations such as infants/children,
adolescents, adults, pregnant/lactating females, and the
elderly. Each presentation must target a different life
stage, population and topic. You must pre-approve your
topic, audience, and presentation outline with the DI
director and site preceptor. If for some reason you are
unable to complete all stages of the assignment at your
site, you may present your presentation to another
audience (approval of DI director required).
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Group Community Presentations
 Conduct a needs assessment of the target audience, develop a
lesson plan appropriate for the target audience (learning
objectives, icebreaker, content outline, planned length, and
materials), and describe your evaluation method using the
presentation outline template.
 Your preceptor or other qualified professional must evaluate
each presentation using the presentation evaluation.
 Complete the presentation self-evaluation (were objectives
met, did the audience find the presentation valuable, how
would you improve, etc.)
 Submit your presentation outline, presentation evaluation by
preceptor, and presentation self-evaluation to the DI Team.
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Formative
 Assignment-specific Evaluations
 Weekly meetings with interns
▪ Preceptor Discussion Log
 Communication with DI Team
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Summative
 Completed Rotation Evaluations
Evaluations on MyCedarCrest
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Before you can receive access to
mycedarcrest and our library services, we ask
that you submit a copy of your photo ID
 Please fax to 610-606-4656
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Follow up regarding Affiliation Agreements if
applicable
Prepare for your intern’s arrival
 CDR Dietetics Preceptor Training Course
 Intern Orientation Checklist
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Kati Fosselius, Director
 [email protected]
 610-606-4666 ext 3445
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Tara Miltenberger, Distance Coordinator
 [email protected]
 610-606-4666 ext 3621
Cedar Crest College
Dietetic Internship
Department of Nutrition
100 College Drive
Allentown, PA 18104
For more information, please visit our website:
http://www.cedarcrest.edu/ca/academics/nutrit
ion/dietetic_internship.shtm
To access a blank Affiliation Agreement, please
click on the Preceptor Tab.
Question and Answer