The Master of Dietetic Practice is a 2-year full-time program. Dietetic Practice is the application of the science of food and nutrition across a range of domains to improve the health and wellbeing of individuals, communities, and populations. The course combines theory and practice placement across dietetic practice areas including food and nutrition counselling with individuals, food and nutrition education and capacity building with groups, public health nutrition, food production and provision to individuals, communities and populations, entrepreneurial dietetic practice and management, and research.

Commonwealth Supported Places are available for this course. See the Courses costs section below, under Fees.

Professional experience

Students will complete a minimum of 132 days of practice placement, which includes 15 days ‘engaging with communities’ placement.

All professional experience placements require pre-verification (e.g. police checks, immunisation).

All students are required to complete at least one regional/rural/interstate placement.

Community engagement

Students undertake a unit ‘Engaging with communities’ where principles of community engagement is integrated within the context of solving food and nutrition problems.

Supervision arrangements

Suitability of supervisors across placements will be assessed by the ACU Master of Dietetic Practice Placement Coordinator. Supervision of competence to practice on placement will be arranged between university academics and placement organisations. Where assessment of competence is conducted during placement, the supervisor needs to be a Full Accredited Practising Dietitian (not provisional).

Accreditation

The Master of Dietetic Practice is designed to meet the requirements for accreditation by Dietitians Australia and has achieved Program Qualification with Dietitians Australia. ACU is planning to submit a Provisional Accreditation and then Full Accreditation application within the required timelines, and aims to achieve accreditation prior to graduation of the first cohort of students. A graduate of an accredited program is eligible to become a member of Dietitians Australia with dietetics qualifications, and to join the Accredited Practising Dietitian (APD) Program. Full details of the stages in the Dietitians Australia accreditation process are available