Med Students and Dietetic Interns Can Learn Collaboration
This article was really interesting in that it talks
about how an internship program partners with a medical school program for four
peer sessions together. From this peer partnership, each field gets to learn
about the other field and how nutrition links their practices in healthcare
together. They have found that this increases med school student’s respect for a
dietitian’s knowledge while also increasing dietetic students counseling skills
and ability to understand the bigger picture of disease.
As a clinical nutrition manager, there may be times where
this partnership between fields isn’t the strongest. This program helps to
prevent that and promotes interdisciplinary care. Intern preceptors that receive
dietetic students for internships in clinical rotations may be able to apply
some of the principles in this program. If the med students and dietetic
interns had a chance to interact briefly and learn each other’s roles, it can
help to promote this mutual respect of knowledge and skills. The link below
provides more information on this program.
-AA
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