Help your students learn about the dietetic profession

Here are some resources to help students understand the dietetic profession and future career directions. You can share these resources with your students or direct them to DC's website.

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Professional development: Tools to support career growth

• You are a Leader, not an Imposter (video): This presentation will deconstruct root causes of why you may experience impostor syndrome, review common thoughts and feelings associated with impostorism, and specify how we can all work towards overcoming feelings of self-doubt that limit professional achievement.
• Redefining Food. Rediscovering Its Purpose (video): This presentation will offer a deep dive into the purpose-driven economy, the need for social justice, and will explore solutions on how food companies and dietitians can become leaders for positive change. 
• Ryley-Jeffs Lecture 2018: Listen....and Speak (video): Gerry Kasten addresses weight bias, and its intersections with homophobia, racism, misogyny and inequity.  Free for members.
• Feeding Your Career in Dietetics: Strategies for Staying Engaged Long Term (blog): Strategies for sustaining a motivating career as a dietitian.
• Three reasons why doing Master’s level research can benefit your career in unexpected ways (blog): How research can elevate a career. 

 

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Learn about the dietetics profession

• Household Food Insecurity in Canada (position paper): Dietitians have a vital role to play in addressing the causes and the consequences of household food insecurity through
  evidence-based advocacy and providing dignified, person-centred care to those experiencing food insecurity.
• Sustainable Food Systems: Dietitians' Roles (role paper): The purpose of this paper is to identify roles and recommend actions for dietitians that can affect positive change for sustainable food systems and diets  - as individuals, as a profession, and as members of collaborative work.
• Bridging the Gap | Dietitians: an integral part of Mental Health Care in Ontario (role paper): The role of dietitians in mental health care as part of an integrated approach in Ontario.
• Dietitians in Home Care (handout): Why dietitians are an important part of the home care team.
• Dietitians in Long Term Care (handout): The role dietitians play in the long term care system. 
• Dietitians Support Mental Health (handout): The role dietitians play in improving mental health outcomes.

 

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Business development: Tools to support a new practice

• Virtual Practice: Now and into the Future (video): This panel discussion looks at virtual practice, cross-border counselling and insurance requirements for dietitians' businesses.
• Tools you need When Starting or Growing your Business (video): Learn all about the different tools needed for all dietitians when establishing a business and how to identify them. Free for Consulting Dietitians Network members. 
• How to Build a Successful Small Business From Scratch: 5 Secrets to Turn Your Passion into a Profitable Business (video): Learn how to stand out in the market as a new business and how to be profitable from the day you launch. Free for Consulting Dietitians Network members. 
• MOP Toolkit: MOP™ stands for Motivation Over the Phone. This hands-on interactive toolkit includes 11 techniques and skills such as reflective listening, agenda setting and goal setting, each with a set of verbal stems to help in the delivery of a client centred approach from the moment of introduction to the development of the care plan. 
• Dietitians in Private Practice: A Guide for the Consultant: This step-by-step guide is an excellent resource for dietitians considering a private practice.