WELCOME! MS-Nutrition (Didactic Program) Prospective Student Information Session February 10, 2016

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1 WELCOME! MS-Nutrition (Didactic Program) Prospective Student Information Session February 10, 2016

2 OUTLINE Careers in Nutrition Employment Opportunities Becoming a RD/RDN Overview of the Nutrition Program Admission and Degree Requirements Questions

3 A Career in Nutrition Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life (Confucius)

4 Leading Causes of Death in the US

5 High-tech science of applying food and its nutrients to health Owing to Nutrition/Dietetics A Growing Field Increased emphasis on disease prevention Growing aging population Public interest in nutrition US Bureau of Labor Statistics predicts 9% increase in number of jobs for RDs through 2020

6 Who is a Registered Dietitian? A Registered Dietitian is a food and nutrition expert who has met the minimum academic and professional requirements to qualify for the credential RD or RDN

7 Employment Opportunities Hospitals and medical centers or other health-care facilities Community and public health settings Foodservice Operations Food and nutrition related businesses and industries Academia and research Private practice Journalism Sports nutrition and corporate wellness programs Nearly half of all Academy members hold advanced academic degrees

8 Place of Employment (2012) Clinical Nutrition-acute care/inpatient 32% Clinical Nutrition-ambulatory care 17% Clinical Nutrition-long term care 8% Community 11% Foodservice Management 12% Consultation & Business 8% Education & Research 6%

9 Without enough RDs other practitioners with far less education in Nutrition and MNT are stepping up to meet the demands Shortage of RDs Data from CDR s workforce demand study (2011) shows only 1 RD/3,500 individuals in US For each RD there are 33 nurses; 3 pharmacists; 1 PA

10 Salaries (AND 2015 Industry Comp and Benefits Survey) RDNs median full-time salary is $63,700 Median salaries have significantly out paced inflation for the last 2 years Highest salaries are in research, food service management, clinical nutrition management, consulting and sales Salaries vary by region of the country, employment setting, scope of responsibility and supply of RDs

11 Acronyms You Need to Know AND: The Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics- -the world s largest organization of food and nutrition professionals. The Academy is committed to improving the nation s health and advancing the profession of dietetics through research, education and advocacy. ACEND: Accreditation Council for Education in Nutrition and Dietetics CDR: Commission on Dietetic Registration

12 RD Credential Have a Bachelors degree; Complete all required coursework through an ACEND accredited Didactic Program (DP) Complete an ACEND accredited Internship Program (IP) Pass the Registration Examination for Dietitians conferred by CDR Complete continuing professional educational requirements to maintain registration

13 Additional Board Certifications Gerontological Nutrition CSG) Oncology Nutrition (CSO) Pediatric Nutrition (CSP) Renal Nutrition (CSR) Sports Dietetics (CSSD) These certified specialist certifications are awarded through CDR the credentialing agency for the Academy

14 Additional State Certifications/Licensures Most states (47) have enacted legislation regulating the practice of dietetics State Certification-protects the title but not the scope of practice (so what we do can be done by anybody but they cannot call themselves a Dietitian or Nutritionist. Eg. Certified Dietitian/Nutritionist (CDN) Frequently these state requirements are met through the same education and training required to become an RD

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16 Enrollment:All Nutrition Programs ( students) Undergraduate Students BS in NFS (~30 students) Accelerated BS-MS pathway (1-4 students) Graduate Students MS in Nutrition-DP (~60 students) Internship Program (IP) (16 students)

17 Nutrition Faculty Khursheed Navder, PhD, RDN,FAND Professor & Campu sdirector Ming-Chin Yeh, PhD Associate Professor May May Leung, PhD, RD Assistant Professor Charles Platkin, PhD, JD, MPH Visiting Assistant Professor Sikha Bhaduri, PhD Clinical Laboratory Technician Ellen Passov, MBA,RDN,CDN Assistant DPD Program Director/Advisor

18 MS-Nutrition Rigorous science based program Accredited DP in Nutrition and Dietetics that provides academic training required by ACEND. Upon completion students are awarded the MS degree and ACEND DP verification statement. Graduates are eligible to pursue supervised practice in an Internship Program and become eligible for the RD/RDN credentialing exam. All classes held on Silberman Campus at 119 th St Fall admissions only

19 MS Program Length 41 credits (15 courses) over 2 years (9-12 cr/ semesters) Full Time, Day Program at Silberman Building Classes meet: 2 h and 40 minutes per week for 15 weeks; take 3-4 courses per semester (9-12 cr)

20 DPD Program Completion Rates MS DPD Graduation Year Admitted Program Completion in 2 years Program completers - within 150% usual time (3 years) (DPD goal 90%) 28 in Fall /28 (71%) (graduated Spring 2012) 26/28 (93%) 31 in Fall /31 (97%) (graduated Spring 2013) 30/31 (97%) 25 in Fall /25 (76% graduated in Spring 2014) 24/25 (96% by Spring 2015) 25 in Fall /25 (92% will graduate in Spring 2015) 25/25 (100% by Spring 2016)

21 Other Hunter DP Statistics MS DP graduates who applied to DI: : 95% (93/98) DPD graduates that were accepted into a DI from those that applied : 88% (82/93) MS DP graduates pursuing higher education 2 accepted into DPH programs (UNC, Harvard) 1 applied to Medical School

22 Hunter MS: RD Exam Pass Rate Test Year Testers Within One Year of First Attempt Examinees Passed Annual Pass Rate % % % (Jan % 4 YEAR AVERAGE June) %

23 Pre-Requisite Coursework Pre-requisites include current ( 10 yrs) science, social science and math courses May be taken at any US accredited 2 or 4 year institution in class or online Must meet minimum number of credits Chemistry courses are a single semester and often called General, Fundamentals of, Essentials of or Introduction to General Chemistry is a pre-requisite for other classes. Make sure the course you pick will work A&P sequence may be Anatomy &Physiology 1&2 with labs or Anatomy with lab and Physiology with lab Need not be complete to apply but must be complete by June

24 Science/MathPre-Requisite Coursework ( Hunter Courses and Credits) General Chemistry/Lab Min 4 cr (CHE ) 6 cr Organic Chemistry/Lab Min 4 cr (CHE ) 4.5 cr Anatomy/Lab Min 4 cr (BIOL 120) 4.5 cr Physiology/Lab Min 4 cr (BIOL 122) 4.5 cr Microbiology/Lab Min 3 cr (BIOL 230) 3 cr Statistics Min 3 cr (STAT 113) 3 cr

25 NFS/Social Science Pre-Requisites (Hunter Courses/Credits) Intro Nutrition * Min 3 cr Intro to Nutrition (NFS 141) 3 cr Intro to Food Science * Min 3 cr Food Science 1 (NFS 131) 3 cr Social Science Min 3 cr Psych/ Sociology/Anthropology/Economics 100 level intro courses 3 cr *Nutrition and Food Science requirements may be met by Challenge Exam All Pre-req coursework including Challenge exams must be complete by June of application year

26 Admission Requirements Complete pre-requisite coursework Complete online application SOPHAS (2016) Hunter Graduate OnLine Application ( 2017 and beyond) Resume Personal statement Original transcripts of all previous university work Two letters of recommendation Graduate Record Exam (GRE)* (w/in 5 years) TOEFL If undergraduate degree is from a country where the official language is a language other than English *Not required for applicants with previous graduate degrees from accredited US institutions

27 Application Deadlines For US baccalaureate graduates: Fall semester: March 1 For international baccalaureate graduates: Fall semester: February 1 Transcripts must be evaluated by WES

28 Admissions Decisions Accept you as a matriculated student by April (if all your pre-reqs are completed) Accept you conditionally as a matriculated student by June 1 (if all your pre-reqs will be completed by Spring semester; NEED TO PROVIDE MIDTERM GRADES FROM SPRING CLASSES; NFS 141 can be completed by end of June) Reject

29 MS Nutrition Cost at Hunter NYS Resident Non-resident Full time ( 12 credits per semester) $ 5218 $ 9513 Total cost (based on full-time attendance) $20,872 $38052 Comparison with private universities in NYC: approx $80,000 for degree

30 Didactic Program (74 cr) Prerequisites (31 cr min) General Chem/Lab (4 cr) Organic Cchem/Lab (4 cr) A&P I/Lab (4 cr) A & P II/Lab (4 cr) Microbiology/ Lab (3 cr) Food Science I (3 cr) Nutrition I (3 cr) Statistics (3 cr) Psych/Soc/Anthr/Eco (3cr) MS Nutrition (41 cr) Nutritional Biochem (3 cr) Community Nutrition Education (3 cr)- Nutr & Human Development (3 cr) Food Service Management (3 cr) Biostatistics (3 cr) Nutrition Research (3 cr) Advanced Nutr I (3 cr) Advanced Nutr II (3 cr) Clinical Nutrition I (3 cr) Clinical Nutrition I (3 cr) Nutrition and Disease (3 cr) Advanced Nutr & Assessment Lab (1 cr) Food Science and Env Lec (3 cr) Food Science and Env Lab (1 cr) Practicum (3 cr)

31 Accelerated BS-MS (137 cr) For academically strong and motivated Hunter students who are interested in completing their BS degree and then continuing at Hunter to obtain a master s degree and verification statement Must have a GPA of at least 3.5 and should have completed 96 UG credits. They must maintain grade requirements to graduate with both a BS and MS upon completion of the program

32 Accelerated BS-MS (137 cr) Prerequisites (33 cr) General Chem (4.5 cr) Organic chem (4.5 cr) A&P I (4.5 cr) A & P II (4.5 cr) Microbiology (3 cr) Food Science I (3 cr) Nutrition I (3 cr) Statistics (3 cr) Psych/Soc/Anthr/Eco (3 cr) MS Nutrition (41 cr) Nutritional Biochem (3 cr) Community Nutrition Education (3 cr)- Nutr & Human Development (3 cr) Food Service Management (3 cr) Biostatistics (3 cr) Nutrition Research (3 cr) Advanced Nutr I (3 cr) Advanced Nutr II (3 cr) Clinical Nutrition I (3 cr) Clinical Nutrition I (3 cr) Nutrition and Disease (3 cr) Advanced Nutr & Assessment Lab (1 cr) Food Science and Env Lec (3 cr) Food Science and Env Lab (1 cr) Practicum (3 cr) Instead of 161 cr ( cr) for BS & MS the Accelerated BS- MS is 137 cr (24 fewer credits)

33 Sequence of Courses Over 2 Years in MS DP 1 st Semester, Fall (12 cr) PH 750 Biostatistics (3 cr) NUTR 705 Biochemistry (3 cr) NUTR 715 Food Serv Mgt (3 cr) NUTR 720 Com Nutr Educ (3 cr) 2 nd Semester, Spring (10 cr) NUTR 725 Nutr Research (3 cr) NUTR 731 Adv Nutrition I (3 cr) NUTR 756 Fd Sci Env-Lec (3 cr) NUTR 757 Fd Sci Env-Lab (1 cr) 3 rd Semester, Fall (10 cr) NUTR 732 Adv Nutr II (3 cr) NUTR 734 Clin Nutr I (3 cr) NUTR 733 Develop Nutr (3 cr) NUTR 747 Adv Nutr Lab (1 cr) 4 th Semester, Spring (9 cr) NUTR 735 Clin Nutr II (3 cr) NUTR 746 Nutr &Disease (3 cr) NUTR 760 Practicum (3 cr) Students will also take a comprehensive exam in the final semester in the NUTR 760-Practicum course.

34 Full Time Student Classroom time represents a mere fraction of the time you will need to devote to each class (roughly up to 9 hours of preparation at home for every 3 cr course) Students who are employed or have other obligations or responsibilities that substantially restrict their study time are advised to reduce their work load

35 Assessment of Prior Learning Student needs to provide a detailed course syllabus/ notes/ exams etc (must be within five years) for assessment of prior learning through graduate coursework from other institutions or experience. If the course/experience appears substantially equivalent, the student will need to take a challenge exam and score 80% to be exempted from that course. NOTE: Exemption limit maximum 4 courses If the exemption is based on Academic graduate coursework credits will transfer If the exemption is from experience, the student will need to take other courses in order to meet the minimum 41 credit hours required for graduation. No verification statement will be issued unless the student earns a degree from Hunter College and passes the comprehensive exam.

36 Upon Graduation Receive a MS Degree (BS-MS will receive both BS and MS Degrees) Verification Statement During last Spring semester, you will apply to IPs

37 Supply and Demand for DIs

38 Internship Program Supervised practice that provides the opportunity to apply the basic scientific principles (obtained from the didactic component) to gain confidence in performing skills Duration of supervised practice for RDs is 1200 hours

39 Kappa Omicron Nu National Honor Society for Human Sciences The Hunter chapter of what was then Omicron Nu goes back about 30 years Eligibility Graduate students: completed 20 semester hours of graduate work or equivalent and have a minimum grade point average of 3.8 on a 4.0 scale and rank in the top 25 percent of their class.

40 Nutrition Club Purpose: To unite students, as well as foster interaction between the members of the expanding dietetic community at Hunter College, and their relations with the students from other majors and professionals.

41 Big Apple Crunch Over 1,000 apples donated from Red Jacket farms were distributed

42 Thanksgiving Food Drive Over 100 pounds of food were collected on the Silberman Campus throughout the month of November for New York Common Pantry. Members volunteered the weekend before Thanksgiving to help pack the bags for local families.

43 Nutrition Club volunteers helped out at the 2014 Kids Food Festival - an event focused on educating families about making balanced food choices through fun and flavorful activities. Some even met Food Network s Kelsy Nixon!

44 La Marqueta Harvest Festival Members shared Healthy Halloween Treats and culturally-relevant healthy recipes with community members.

45 Nutrition & Physical Activity Symposium Members presented on affordable, healthy food options near the CUNY Graduate Center and conducted a demonstration.

46 Nutrition Month Education Nutrition Club showed the Silberman campus how to enjoy the taste of eating right during Nutrition Month 2014

47 Student Presentations at National Conferences

48 Frequently Asked Questions Must I obtain approval prior to taking pre-requisites? NO. Pre-req classes must meet the requirements and minimum credits outlined on the website All science classes are a single semester and must have a lab component Chemistry and A&P courses must be a minimum of 4 credits General Chem must be an appropriate pre-requisite class to the Organic Chem and A&P that you choose All coursework, including labs, may be completed on-line. All coursework must be completed at an accredited 2 or 4 year US institution or be deemed equivalent by WES ( foreign institutions)

49 Frequently Asked Questions Must I Complete All My Prerequisite Courses By The Time I Apply? NO. All pre-requisites including challenge exams must be completed by June of the application year. A minimum of 5 courses must be complete at the time of application Qualified students will receive a conditional offer of acceptance as long as they can offer a feasible schedule for completion of their prerequisite course work by end of June. Accepted students who fail to complete all prerequisites will not be allowed to enter the program.

50 Frequently Asked Questions Will international science coursework transfer All international transcripts must be evaluated by WES at a course level Courses deemed to be similar in content and with the appropriate minimum number of credits that are less than 10 years old will transfer

51 Frequently Asked Questions How many applications are received by the program and how many students are admitted Each year we receive between 80 and 100 applictions students are enrolled each year

52 Frequently Asked Questions How are applications evaluated Each application is objectively evaluated using a point system including the following Undergraduate or graduate GPA Pre-requisite GPA GRE score The quality of the personal statement and letters of recommendation are also weighed Top scoring applicants will be offered an unconditional or conditional acceptance. Other qualified candidates will be placed on a waitlist

53 Frequently Asked Questions Can I take a Challenge Exam? NFS 141 and NFS 131 requirements can be satisfied by Challange Exam Self study exam: all textbook information is on the website. There are no study guides, questions etc 100 question multiple choice test Minimum score of 80% to pass A passing score waives the requirement but does not figure into the gpa. No credits are received Students who do not pass will be offered another chance to take the exam or to enroll in the class Exam is held May, August, December. Cost is $125 Challenge exams must be completed by May of the year of application

54 Frequently Asked Questions Can I attend the program part time? The MS DPD program is designed as a rigorous, structured full-time program Coursework is sequenced Courses are offered only once each year Is there Financial Assistance available? Various scholarship and loan programs are available through Hunter to help qualified graduate students meet their financial obligations. Please see the Office of Financial Aid website at:

55 Thank You Dr. K. Navder Ellen Passov