In collaboration with their Dietetic Education Coordinator, each student’s practicum schedule will be created, providing the student the opportunity to meet dietetic competencies (which are required for professional registration). Through the practical training placements, students will have the opportunity to develop competencies in:

• Nutrition Care
• Population Health Promotion
• Food Provision
• Management and Leadership
• Professionalism and Ethics
• Communication & Collaboration

Students in this program experience rich and dynamic practicum placements in settings such as community health centres, family health teams, food industry, hospitals, long-term care homes and public health units. The practicum portion of the program is just under one year in length.

For more details, please visit see: Practicum Overview.

Disclosure:
Students enrolled in this program must complete practicum placements in hospitals and other healthcare settings. Prior to those placements, students are required to show evidence of having received several vaccinations (including COVID-19), completed vulnerable sector screening, and completed various other pre-placement requirements.

6.0 credits

• 2.0 FCE required credits (each course is 0.5 FCE)
  • FN 9711 Nutrition Research and Epidemiology (required)– offered in the Fall term
  • FN 9444 Advances in Clinical Nutrition (required) – offered in the Fall term
  • Electives: pick 2 out of the following 3 courses:
    • FN 9111 Food and Nutritional Policies and Regulations (elective) – offered in the Winter term
    • FN 9666 Community Nutrition and Program Planning (elective) – offered in the Winter term
    • FN 9211 Leadership and Food Management (elective) – offered in the Winter term

• 4.0 FCE practicum related credits (each course is 1.0 FCE)
  • FN 9001 Practicum in Dietetics (required)
  • FN 9002 Practicum in Dietetics II  (required)
  • FN 9003 Practicum in Dietetics III (required)
  • FN 9004 Dietetic Professionalism (required)

• Academic Integrity Module
• Field-based seminar – The students will attend the seminar series offered for thesis (students enrolled through Health and Rehabilitation Sciences) and project-based MScFN students. The students must attend 100% of the seminars to complete the milestone.
• Major Research Project – Based on areas of interest, students are matched with a Faculty Research Supervisor who will encourage, guide and supervise the student’s research project over their time in the program. Students have the opportunity to contribute new knowledge to the profession and strengthen their research skills.