Schedule and Locations
Schedule Highlights
Full-time program with flexible scheduling options:
- Complete the internship in 8-9 months (August-April).
- Add an optional 2-week elective rotation.
- Incorporate an optional master’s degree (15 months total for internship and master’s degree).
Directors schedule rotations based on interests and needs of each intern.
Class meetings support positive relationships and work-life balance by combining in-person and remote learning.
Four weeks of vacation breaks scheduled throughout the program.
Schedule Overview
Begin the program in late August with a two week orientation.
Following orientation, there are weekly class meetings on Mondays and rotations Tuesday - Friday.
Late August - December: clinical (medical nutrition therapy) rotations.
January - April: community nutrition and management rotations.
Program Locations
Interns complete rotations in the geographic area to which they applied. Opportunities exist in many locations, mostly in Virginia, including Abingdon, Blacksburg, Charlottesville, Leesburg, Martinsburg (WV), Richmond, Roanoke, Virginia Beach, Washington DC metro area, Williamsburg, Winchester, and others.
Interns who do not have a location preference will be assigned rotations in one of the geographic areas listed above based on their professional learning needs, interests, and site availability.
Class meetings are held once per week throughout most of the program. About half of these class sessions are held online. The in-person class sessions (approximately twice per month) are held on Virginia Tech campuses in Alexandria and Blacksburg. All interns are expected to attend those twice monthly on-campus classes, deciding in advance if they prefer to attend in Alexandria or Blacksburg.
Rotations in the Washington, DC metro area, Winchester, and Martinsburg, WV
Interns completing rotations in these locations typically attend in-person class meetings on the Alexandria campus twice per month. Their supervised practice rotations are scheduled within a one-hour drive from the internship location to which they applied and were accepted. Specific rotation placements are determined based on the intern’s learning needs and goals, geographic considerations, and site availability.
Intern placements in recent years:
Acute care hospitals
- Inova Alexandria Hospital
- Inova Fairfax Medical Campus
- Inova Fair Oaks Hospital
- Martinsburg Veterans Affairs Medical Center
- Medstar Georgetown University Hospital
- Medstar Washington Hospital Center
- Reston Hospital
- Walter Reed National Military Medical Center
- Winchester Medical Center
Long term care facilities
- Community Living Center, Martinsburg Veterans Affairs Medical Center
- Goodwin Living
- Greenspring Village
Outpatient facilities
- Children’s National Medical Center
- Fresenius Kidney Care
- Inova Cardiac Rehabilitation
- Inova Center for Wellness and Metabolic Health
- Inova Schar Cancer Institute
- Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center
- MedStar Bariatrics and Weight Management
- MedStar Diabetes Institute
- Pediatric Specialists of Virginia
- Shady Grove Fertility
- Valley Health Diabetes Management
- Valley Health Metabolic & Bariatric Program
- Veterans Affairs Community Based Outpatient Clinics
- Washington Cancer Institute
- A Nu Healthy You
- Alexandria Department of Community and Human Services, Division of Aging Services
- Athena’s Bump
- Be Healthy Nutrition Counseling
- Capital Area Food Bank
- Capital Pediatrics
- Capitol Nutrition Group
- Center for Discovery
- Chartwells Higher Ed at American University
- Clementine
- Community Support Services
- Courage to Nourish
- DC Central Kitchen
- Enlighten Nutrition and Counseling Services
- FHI 360
- Food Directions
- Food & Friends
- FoodMinds
- George Washington University Culinary Medicine Program
- Loudoun County Public Schools
- Manna Food Center
- Martinsburg Veterans Affairs Medical Center Domiciliary and Healthy Teaching Kitchen
- Monte Nido
- Mosaic Nutrition
- National Grocers Association
- Northern Virginia Family Services
- NourishedRx
- Nutrition in Demand
- Rooted Recovery
- Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC)
- Stacie Haaga, RD, CLT
- Tepper Nutrition
- U.S. Department of Agriculture Food and Nutrition Service
- VIDA Fitness
- Virginia Cooperative Extension
- Whole Health RD
- Alexandria City Public Schools
- Chartwells Higher Ed at George Washington University
- DC Central Kitchen
- Fairfax County Public Schools
- Goodwin Living
- Greenspring Village
- Loudoun County Public Schools
- Martinsburg West Virginia Veterans Affairs Medical Center
Rotations in Blacksburg, Roanoke, Abingdon, Charlottesville, Richmond, and Williamsburg
Interns completing rotations in these locations typically attend in-person class meetings on the Blacksburg campus twice per month. Their supervised practice rotations are scheduled within a one-hour drive from the internship location to which they applied and were accepted. Specific rotation placements are determined based on the intern’s learning needs and goals, geographic considerations, and site availability.
Intern placements in recent years:
Acute care hospitals
- Ballad Health
- Bon Secours Mercy Health
- Children’s Hospital of the King’s Daughters
- LewisGale Medical Center
- LewisGale Montgomery
- LewisGale Pulaski
- Salem Veterans Affairs Medical Center
- Sentara Norfolk General Hospital
- Sentara Williamsburg Regional Medical Center
- UVA Health
Long term care facilities
- Richfield Retirement Center
- Salem Veterans Affairs Medical Center Community Living Center
- Warm Hearth Village Retirement Community
Outpatient facilities
- Carilion Diabetes Center
- Fresenius Kidney Care
- LewisGale Regional Cancer Center (Pulaski and Salem)
- New Horizons Healthcare
- Salem Veterans Affairs Medical Center Diabetes Program and Outpatient Clinics
- University of Virginia Dialysis Centers
Intern placements in recent years:
- American Heart Association
- Bon Secours Community Outreach
- Feeding America Southwest
- Food City
- First We Nourish
- Giles County Wellness
- Innisfree Village
- New Horizons Healthcare
- Nourished Rx (virtual)
- Nutrition Counseling Roanoke
- Petersburg Healthy Options Partnerships
- Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC)
- UVA Health Nutrition Counseling Center
- UVA Health Renal Food Pharmacy
- Virginia Cooperative Extension
- Virginia Foundation for Healthy Youth
- Virginia Tech Athletics
- Virginia Tech Hokie Wellness
- Chesterfield County Public Schools
- Community Solutions Center, Feeding America
- Emory & Henry University
- LewisGale Medical Center
- LewisGale Hospital - Montgomery
- Montgomery County Public Schools
- Roanoke City Public Schools
- Roanoke College
- Virginia Tech Athletics
- Virginia Tech Dining Services
- Warm Hearth Village Retirement Community
- William and Mary Dining Services
Elective Rotations
Interns have the option to design their own two-week elective rotation. Many interns choose to complete their elective at one of the sites established for MNT, Community, or Management experiences. Additional elective sites in recent years have included the following:
Interns may collaborate with program directors if they would like to pursue a new site/practice area for their elective rotation.
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