Document Type
News Article
Publication Date
12-14-2021
Abstract
To say you started anything new in 2020 would, well, raise eyebrows – especially launching something as involved and hands-on as an academic program including clinical healthcare. But that’s exactly what Ouachita did during the 2020-2021 academic year, launching its first graduate programs in more than 20 years. The new programs are producing quick fruit, with seven students earning Ouachita’s first-ever post-baccalaureate certificate for dietetic internships in May 2021. (The first cohort of applied behavior analysis master’s degree students will graduate in August 2021.)
“Ten years ago, the placement rate for nutrition & dietetics students in a post-graduate internship was only about 50% nationwide; there was a shortage of internships,” said Dr. Detri Brech, Ouachita’s Charles S. and Elma Grey Goodwin Holt Professor of Dietetics and Pre-Medical Studies and chair of the Department of Nutrition & Dietetics. “Seeing the need is what led us on the road we are now. We used to have students who couldn’t be placed in an internship due to a lack of spots. We saw that and talked many times about how we knew this was something that Ouachita could provide.”
Recommended Citation
Gaddis, Rachel and Office of Communications & Marketing, "Ouachita launches graduate Dietetic Internship during pandemic" (2021). Press Releases. 1379.
https://scholarlycommons.obu.edu/press_releases/1379
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