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Graduate
Options
Four-year
degree and no internship: New Option (DTR)?
Registration
Examination for Dietetic Technicians
At the
April 2009 meeting, the Commission on Dietetic Registration established
a new registration eligibility pathway for dietetic technicians.
Effective
June 1, 2009, individuals who have completed both a baccalaureate degree
and a Didactic Program in Dietetics (DPD) will be able to take the registration
examination for dietetic technicians. Additional academic coursework
or supervised practice will not be required.
This decision
is consistent with CDR’s public protection mission in that it
will provide a credential option to DPD graduates who are currently
not credentialed, but are employed as dietetic technicians and in other
nutrition-related positions.
These
DPD graduates who do not go on to a dietetic internship will now have
an additional option to obtain the DTR credential and it is hoped incentive
to remain in the dietetics profession. Once credentialed these individuals
will be required to comply with CDR recertification requirements, the
ADA/CDR Code of Ethics for the Profession of Dietetics and the Standards
of Practice for Dietetic Technicians, Registered.
CDR also
believes that this alternative registration eligibility option will
increase the availability, accessibility and visibility of DTRs throughout
the country, ultimately enhancing the value of the DTR and the credential.
