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This led me to wanting to learn more about the origin of the field of dietetics in the US. So we have:
Dietetics: A brief history.
https://twitter.com/amuslimrdn/status/1286727708618231808
Dietetics: A brief history.
https://twitter.com/amuslimrdn/status/1286727708618231808
Dietetics as a profession/field was founded in the Philadelphia Cooking School in 1881 where Sarah Tyson Rorer created a kitchen where she could provide prescribed diets to patients and nutrition training for physicians.
Initially the field was limited to a more clinical setting, a "feeding of the sick".
The American Dietetic Association (currently the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics) was founded in the Midwest in 1917.
The American Dietetic Association (currently the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics) was founded in the Midwest in 1917.
At that time, dietitians became more involved in public health and helped with food rations and proper public nutrition during WW1.
They also set the education requirement as a two-year college degree but in 1921 it went up to a four year degree and in 1928 a 6 month supervised internship was introduced. This is fascinating bc in 1940 only 3.8% of women in the US had a 4-year college degree (and 5.5% of men).
In the 1940's, dietetic aides were introduced because there was a shortage of dietitians. In 1969, the registration of Registered Dietitian began. Clinical specialty training only really started up in the last 30 years.
(PMID: 19719006)
(PMID: 19719006)
Current dietitians need to complete a 4 year undergrad degree, 1200 hours of supervised internship, and the registration exam. This will go up to a master's requirement in 2024.
There you have it folks.
Iâm blown away by the fact that it required a 4 yr degree back when so little people even had one. The earliest data I found was from 1940, which is 19 yrs after the requirement was put into place. Iâd love to see how other fields compared in edu reqs.
Iâm blown away by the fact that it required a 4 yr degree back when so little people even had one. The earliest data I found was from 1940, which is 19 yrs after the requirement was put into place. Iâd love to see how other fields compared in edu reqs.
And forgot the #RDChat hashtag, now it is ruined.
