a) The education requirements are as follows:
1) The school or program is accredited by a
regional accrediting agency recognized by the Council on Higher Education
Accreditation, or is a foreign school or program that has been validated by an
accrediting agency approved by the U.S. Department of Education as offering a
degree equivalent to the baccalaureate or post baccalaureate degree conferred
by a regionally accredited college or university in the United
States;
2) The school or program
has a sufficient number of full-time instructors to assure that educational
obligations to the student are fulfilled. The faculty must have demonstrated
competence as evidenced by appropriate degrees in their areas of teaching from
professional colleges or institutions;
3) The school or program has a designated
program director;
4) The school or
program maintains permanent student records that summarize the credentials for
admission, attendance, grades and other records of performance; and
5) The applicant holds one of the following:
A) A baccalaureate or post-baccalaureate
degree in human nutrition, foods and nutrition, dietetics, food systems
management, nutrition education, nutrition, nutrition science, clinical
nutrition, applied clinical nutrition, nutrition counseling, nutrition and
functional medicine, or nutrition and integrative health; or
B) A baccalaureate or post-baccalaureate
degree with a major course of study that includes the following:
i) 18 semester hours of clinical or life
science, comprised of the following:
* 3 semester hours of anatomy and/or physiology;
* 3 semester hours of counseling and/or behavioral
sciences;
* 12 hours of other clinical and/or life science, including
but not limited to the following: medicine, organic chemistry, biology,
microbiology, molecular biology, biotechnology, botany, nutrition science,
neuroscience, environmental science, immunotherapy, pathology, research methods
and applied statistics, biostatistics, epidemiology, genetics, genomics and/or
pharmacology; and
ii) 18
semester hours of nutrition and/or metabolism, comprised of the following:
* 6 semester hours of biochemistry;
* 12 other hours of nutrition and/or metabolism, including
but not limited to the following: micronutrients, macronutrients, vitamins and
minerals, nutrition education, nutrition counseling, nutrition through the life
cycle, endocrinology, therapeutic nutrition, nutritional aspects of disease,
pathophysiologic basis of metabolic disease, functional medicine nutrition,
molecular metabolism and/or developmental nutrition.
b) The
Department has determined that dietetic and nutrition schools and programs
authorized by the following are approved:
1)
Accreditation Council for Education in Nutrition and Dietetics;
2) Academy of Nutrition and
Dietetics;
3) American Clinical
Board of Nutrition;
4) Board for
Certification of Nutrition Specialists; and
5) Clinical Nutrition Certification
Board.
c) Individuals
who are deficient in any of the courses set forth in subsection (a)(5) above
may complete those courses in an approved school or program.
