Summer 2027 Start Dietitian Internship

Tell me about a time you had to adjust advice because of someone's culture, religion or food budget.

What they are checking: Whether they treat cultural and personal food needs as part of the plan instead of an afterthought.

Tell me about a time a supervisor gave you hard feedback on your work. What did you change?

What they are checking: Whether they can take correction and grow, which matters most for an intern under close supervision.

A patient refuses to finish a meal plan snack and gets angry when you bring it up. What do you do in that moment?

What they are checking: Whether they can hold a nutrition boundary calmly without turning the moment into a power struggle.

In an interdisciplinary meeting, a therapist disagrees with your meal plan recommendation. How do you handle it?

What they are checking: Whether they can defend nutrition reasoning while staying open to what other disciplines see in the patient.

Walk me through how you'd use the Nutrition Care Process with a new patient, from assessment through monitoring.

What they are checking: Whether they know the four NCP steps well enough to use them as a working routine, not a memorized list.

Rogers treats eating disorders alongside other psychiatric conditions. How would a nutrition session with someone in anorexia recovery differ from one with a patient on an antipsychotic who's gaining weight?

What they are checking: Whether they understand that nutrition goals in a psychiatric setting depend heavily on the diagnosis and the medication.

How would you plan a grocery store tour or cooking group so it actually builds life skills instead of just being an outing?

What they are checking: Whether they can design group activities with a clear therapeutic purpose and a way to tell if it worked.

Nursing does the first nutrition screen and flags risk. What would you look for in that screen to decide how soon you see the patient?

What they are checking: Whether they can triage by risk level, which keeps the highest-need patients from waiting.

When would you recommend moving a patient from enteral feeding back to oral intake, and who would you talk to first?

What they are checking: Whether they know the clinical signs for transitional feeding and respect that the team makes that call together.

This internship may include some cognitive behavioral therapy work. How do you see CBT ideas fitting into nutrition counseling?

What they are checking: Whether they can connect thoughts and behaviors around food to practical nutrition change.

How would you document a nutrition session so the next shift and the rest of the team can act on it?

What they are checking: Whether their notes are clear and specific enough to guide care when they're not in the building.