Economic pressures in health care today make it difficult for many practitioners to provide
educational opportunities for dietetic students. Staff members at practice settings, with …

There are approximately 4,075 dietetics students in need of supervised practice
experiences. If each student has four to five experiences, this creates a need for more than …

Teamwork, emphasized by the transdisciplinary approach, has been strongly linked to the
development of a culture of patient safety. However, the vast majority of health care …

Faced with a dwindling number of clinical sites for training dietetics students, we
incorporated a standardized patient scenario of a 17-year-old pregnant woman into a …

On the basis of requests from dietitians who function as student preceptors, faculty members
for a coordinated undergraduate program developed guidelines for their inservice training. It …

Objective To investigate multiskilling in dietetics education programs, perceived benefits and
barriers to multiskilling, and current and anticipated areas of cross training in the dietetics …

METHODS A 10-item, open-ended, critical-incident questionnaire developed by Brookfield
(2) was distributed to 18 senior-level students in a Coordinated Dietetics Program at a large …

Dietetics students need the help of experienced dietitians in the acquisition of proper skills
and behavior as preparation for professional practice. Effective teachers or preceptors …

Two principal routes have existed for several years for gaining credentials for dietetic
practice, the dietetic internship and the coordinated program. However, com parative …

Abstract In July 1975, the Division of Ambulatory and Community Medicine at the University
of California, San Francisco, initiated an interdisciplinary team education program as part of …