Capstone Certificate in Clinical Nutrition-Dietetic Internship

Developed through a partnership among UWMadison, UW Medical Foundation, UW Hospitals and Clinics (UWHC), and the UW School of Medicine and Public Health, the Dietetic Internship Certificate Program incorporates online advanced graduate-level courses in nutrition with supervised practice at our teaching hospital.

The UW Health Dietetic Internship Program is a supervised practice experience consisting of clinical supervised practice and advanced nutrition learning. The dietetic internship program offers the option of a medical nutrition therapy or public health concentration. The program accepts up to 20 interns.

The internship is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Education in Nutrition and Dietetics (ACEND).ACEND is recognized by the Council for Higher Education Accreditation (CHEA) and the United States Department of Education (USDE). Upon successful completion of the Capstone Certificate in Clinical NutritionDietetic Internship, graduates receive a Certificate of Program Completion and a Verification Statement of Dietetic Internship Completion, and are then eligible to take the Registration exam administered by the Commission on Dietetic Registrationof the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics.

Further detail about the program, including tuition and costs, is available at the Clinical Nutrition: Dietetic Internship website.

1. Apply the study of metabolic demands of critical illness and how these alterations influence the nutritional needs of critical care patients.
2. Develop techniques for counseling and education for in-patient and out-patient care.
3. Assess research articles and solve clinical nutrition problems using research and analysis.

A bachelor’s degree from a regionally accredited U.S. institution or a comparable degree from an international institution is required. International applicants must have a degree comparable to a regionally accredited U.S. bachelor’s degree. You must have completed your undergraduate degree, or similar, before starting graduate school.

A minimum undergraduate grade-point average (GPA) of 3.00 on the equivalent of the last 60 semester hours (approximately two years of work) or a master’s degree with a minimum cumulative GPA of 3.00 is required. Applicants from an international institution must demonstrate strong academic achievement comparable to a 3.00 for an undergraduate or master’s degree. The Graduate School will use your institution’s grading scale. Do not convert your grades to a 4.00 scale.

Every applicant whose native language is not English, or whose undergraduate instruction was not in English, must provide an English proficiency test score. TOEFL scores must be submitted electronically via ETS. IELTS scores can be submitted electronically or by paper.  Our office address is: UW-Madison Graduate School, Office of Admissions, 232 Bascom Hall, 500 Lincoln Drive, Madison, WI 53706.  Your score will not be accepted if it is more than two years old from the start of your admission term. Country of citizenship does not exempt applicants from this requirement. Language of instruction at the college or university level and how recent the language instruction was taken are the determining factors in meeting this requirement.

Applicants are exempt if: