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Project-Based MScFN with Practicum
Application Deadline: January 12 - Fall Term
Program Duration: 20 months
Program Details
In collaboration with their Dietetic Education Coordinator, each student’s practicum schedule will be created, providing the student the opportunity to meet dietetic competencies (which are required for professional registration). Through the practical training placements, students will have the opportunity to develop competencies in:
- Nutrition Care
- Population Health Promotion
- Food Provision
- Management and Leadership
- Professionalism and Ethics
- Communication & Collaboration
Students in this program experience rich and dynamic practicum placements in settings such as community health centres, family health teams, food industry, hospitals, long-term care homes and public health units. The practicum portion of the program is just under one year in length.
For more details, please visit see: Practicum Overview.
Disclosure:
Students enrolled in this program must complete practicum placements in hospitals and other healthcare settings. Prior to those placements, students are required to show evidence of having received several vaccinations (including COVID-19), completed vulnerable sector screening, and completed various other pre-placement requirements.
6.0 credits
- 2.0 FCE required credits (each course is 0.5 FCE)
- 4.0 FCE practicum related credits (each course is 1.0 FCE)
- FN 9001 Practicum in Dietetics (required)
- FN 9002 Practicum in Dietetics II (required)
- FN 9003 Practicum in Dietetics III (required)
- FN 9004 Dietetic Professionalism (required)
- Successful completion of the mandatory Academic Integrity Module and Gender-Based and Sexual Violence (GBSV) Prevention Education: Supporting Safer Professional Practice (SSPP) by the end of term 1.
- A minimum term average of 70%, with no single grade below 60% in any course.
- A pass in a pass/fail course, e.g., practicum courses.
- Students must complete all course progression criteria in all courses before starting the next term.
- Students must successfully meet course progression requirements before starting a placement. Students must complete all placement courses in order. Students cannot defer the FN9001 or FN9002 practicum courses. Students who have not completed FN9001 or FN9002 and have received IPR in FN9004 will not be eligible to progress into the next academic term.
- Students who do not meet the course progression criteria will receive a maximum grade of 59% on their transcript regardless of the overall grade calculation across all course assessments.
- Completion of research/evidence-based practice project milestone
- Achievement of all ICDEP at competent level.
- Academic Integrity Module
- Field-based seminar – The students will attend the seminar series offered for thesis (students enrolled through Health and Rehabilitation Sciences) and project-based MScFN students. The students must attend 100% of the seminars to complete the milestone.
- Major Research Project – Based on areas of interest, students are matched with a Faculty Research Supervisor who will encourage, guide and supervise the student’s research project over their time in the program. Students have the opportunity to contribute new knowledge to the profession and strengthen their research skills.
- Gender-Based and Sexual Violence (GBSV) Prevention Education: Supporting Safer Professional Practice (SSPP).
Program Timeline
Students are enrolled full-time during all 5 academic terms. The program starts in September.
| Term 1 – Fall (Sept–Dec) |
Term 2 – Winter (Jan–April) |
Term 3 – Summer (May–August) |
Term 4 – Fall (Sept–Dec) |
Term 5 – Winter (Jan–April) |
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| FN9444 Advances in Clinical Nutrition (in person) FN9711 Nutrition Research and Epidemiology (in person) |
Pick two of: FN9211 Leadership and Food Management FN9666 Community Nutrition and Program Planning FN9111 Food and Nutritional Policies and Regulations (all in person) |
FN9001 Practicum in Dietetics I (in placement) |
FN9002 Practicum in Dietetics II (in placement) |
FN9003 Practicum in Dietetics III (in placement) |
| FN9004 Dietetic Professionalism (in placement) |
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| 8–10 weeks of research placement (counts toward major research project milestone) |
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| Major Faculty-Led Research Project Milestone (ongoing for 5 terms, includes 8–10 weeks of research placement) (in person) |
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| Field-Based Seminar Milestone (attend 8–10 seminars) (in person) |
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Academic Integrity Module GBSV:SSPP |
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