51: How I Became a Registered Dietitian and What it's Like to be in Private Practice
Nutrition Matters Podcast
Paige Smathers
4.4 • 654 Ratings
🗓️ 21 November 2016
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
If you're considering a career in dietetics, listen to this episode to get some questions answered! In this episode, I take on frequently asked questions about how to become a registered dietitian as well as what it's like to be in private practice.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to Nutrition Matters podcast with Paige Smathers, registered dietitian nutritionist. |
| 0:11.3 | Hi everyone, it's Paige, your favorite nutrition podcaster and dietitian. Nutrition Matters podcast |
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| 1:01.1 | Hey everyone, welcome back to another episode of Nutrition Matters podcast. I'm Paige, your host, and I want to take some time today to talk a little bit about becoming a registered |
| 1:07.7 | dietitian and to talk about what I do in my private practice. |
| 1:12.0 | Now before you think, why is she talking about herself? That's not that interesting. I want to |
| 1:16.7 | explain why. I agree. It's not all that interesting to me either, but I have a local university |
| 1:24.6 | here in Salt Lake City, the University of Utah, there's some class that |
| 1:30.3 | the professor keeps assigning the students to find people in the community who are doing |
| 1:36.3 | work that people in the class are interested in. And they request to interview me all the time. |
| 1:45.0 | And there's certain times of the year where I will get literally three or four emails per week saying, |
| 1:51.0 | can you answer these 15 questions for me or can I come into your office and talk to you for |
| 1:56.0 | an hour about what you do? |
| 1:58.0 | And I used to try to really sit down and take the time to talk to people individually, |
| 2:03.9 | but I've just gotten to the point with what I do where I just, I need a space to refer people to |
| 2:09.4 | when they approach me with wanting to interview me or when people who are who find me or know about me somehow and want to hear more about what it's like |
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