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Montana Dietetic Internship (MDI) Coleen Kaiser, Director and Anna Diffenderfer, Assistant Director

MDI DEVELOPS

  • Emerging professionals
  • Confident learners
  • Leaders in food and nutrition
  • Progressive and Critical Thinkers

MDI Structure

7 Placement areas: Billings, Butte, Missoula, Kalispell, Helena, Great Falls, MT and Sheridan, WY
Sample of Individual Tracks: 40 weeks - July 29, 2019 - May 22, 2020
Professional Development & Orientation: Team-building, Workshops, Internship Nuts and Bolts
2 weeks SFS foundation in Bozeman: Tours, Field Trips, Workshops, Volunteering
NUTRITION 591 - SFS Applied & Culinary Medicine Project
Dietetic interns, WWAMI medical students collaborate at MSU to learn about food as medicine

NUTRITION 598 - WEEKLY WORKSHOP SERIES

  • Intern-led Current Nutrition Topics
  • Guest Speakers and Additional Professional Development
  • MTAND FANS Conference Presentation Practice
4 weeks self-selected rotations

MDI Graduation Week + MTAND FANS Conference 2020, Billings

Mdi components

Clinical Rotations - 14 Weeks

  • Diabetes
  • Long Term Care/Assisted Living
  • Heart Disease/Obesity
  • Cancer
  • Renal
  • GI
  • ICU
  • Other (Native American health, OB, Peds, NICU)
2 Week Rotations in Rural Hospitals in Montana

Community Rotations - 9 weeks

  • WIC
  • Early Childhood Development
  • OPI
  • Team Nutrition
  • MSU Extension
  • Food Access Programs
  • Nonprofits/Community Development

FOOD SERVICE MANAGEMENT ROTATIONS - 8 WEEKS

  • K-12 school food service
  • University
  • Hospital

4 Weeks Self-selected rotation

  • Nutrition Policy
  • Communications - Marketing & Media
  • Business & Industry
  • Hunger and food insecurity
  • Wellness
  • Further clinical - Peds, eating disorders, wilderness nutrition, mental health, bariatric surgery, OBGYN, staff relief
  • Sports Nutrition
  • Food service management - restaurants, chefs/caterers, National Parks
  • Public Health
  • International nutrition and food systems

MDI Logistics

MDI Overview and Application Procedures

Questions

Contact Anna at anna.diffenderfer@montana.edu or Coleen at coleenk@montana.edu

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