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Summary: Becoming a dietitian requires getting a bachelor's degree in nutrition, getting a master's degree and doing an internship before taking a board exam to be state-registered. Find out the proper requirements for being a dietitian with helpful information from a practicing dietitian in this free video on health jobs.
Cher Pastore, M.S., R.D., C.D.E, is a New York-based dietitian whose well-balanced eating plan has empowered hundreds of patients to make positive choices. Instead of focusing on...read more
"Hello my name is Cher Pastore and I'm a registered dietitian and certified diabetes educator with CAP Nutrition LLC in New York City. Becoming a dietitian takes a lot of hard work and determination. You really have to want it. You must have a bachelor's degree from an accredited university. So you can have a bachelor's degree in nutrition or food related science or food service, anything like this, it's a lot of science courses. It's anatomy, physiology, bio chem, organic chem 1 and 2. So you definitely have to have an interest in the science and a strong background in that. So once you complete your bachelor's degree, if you don't want to go on for your master's degree, you have to find a place to do an internship. This internship if you go full time is somewhere between six to nine months. If you go part time, then it's two year internship process. So you have to finish all the coursework, you have to do the internship and then you have to pass the national exam. Now once you do that, you sit for the exam, you take and pass the exam you can become a registered dietitian. If however you have your bachelor's degree from a different such as myself, like I had my undergraduate degree in psychology, I then had to get my master's degree in nutrition. So in order to do that, I had to do two years of the science prerequisites like the biochemistry and the anatomy and phys and everything like that so that was two years of prerequisites then the master's degree coursework was also two years and then it was a six month internship. And then I took the exam and I passed the exam. In New York you also have to have a license if you want to accept insurance plans to practice in a private practice. So then you just have to take a national exam again just to pass your license and then you're all set. But it's quite a long process especially if you don't have your undergraduate degree in a nutrition related field. It's much longer, it's almost like going to medical school but it's well worth it in the end. So becoming a dietitian if you really want it, you have to be strong in the sciences and start out as early as you possibly can."
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