[AODA members] First year Nutrition students learning about diversity in the Profession

[Stacia Nordin, RD]

AODA Members - Dr. Laurie Wadsworth is an AODA member in Canada and is 
looking for Nutritionist to have e-mail interviews with her students.  
If you are open to this, please e-mail Laurie (see e-mails below).    Stacia

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From: 	Laurie Wadsworth <lwadswor at stfx.ca>


Thanks, Stacia. I'll note your dates in the US -- they generally leave 
things to the last moment <smile> so they likely could do this in early 
November and still get the report generated on time. Sending it along to 
the AODA group would be super. Can you do that for me? I have a larger 
than usual first year class this year, so more volunteers would help a 
lot.   See you in a few weeks!
 


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*From:* Stacia Nordin, RD [mailto:nordin at eomw.net]
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I always love to take part in these, only problem is that I'm in the USA 
until Oct 23 and not sure how much e-mail time I'll get.  Just depends 
on the timing of the person's interview questions.  I work with 
Sustainable Food & Nutrition Security in an International Setting in 
Malawi.  HIV and basic health needs cross through everything we do.  
Essentially we make sure that we get everything we need to be healthy 
while making sure the environment is also healthy.  This is great of you 
to arrange!  If you need more people we can forward it to the AODA 
member listserve and Country Reps.

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Laurie Wadsworth wrote:

Past and future career path volunteers --

My apologies if this comes to you twice -- it just shows that you are on 
several mailing lists <smile>.

I am again preparing for a first year class I teach dealing with an 
introduction to the nutrition profession. Many of you I know directly, 
while I've received other names from Christine Johnson and Kelley Cavan 
who have ably instructed this course during my research leaves. One of 
the assignments that has been very well received by students in previous 
years, has had the students learning more about nutrition professionals 
working in different settings and the career path that took them to 
their current position. The specific assignment is to interview a 
nutrition professional and determine the career path taken to arrive in 
the current job setting.  They are to look at the myriad of modes of 
entry into the nutrition profession and the many places the nutrition 
degree can take a graduate.

So -- my question to you all is -- would you be willing to be 
interviewed by e-mail? This would be by one student only and would 
likely occur between the _middle of October and early November_ (final 
paper is due mid-November).

The students (about 50) are in their first year of the nutrition program 
at St. Francis Xavier University in Nova Scotia. The majority are right 
out of high school with about 1/3 transferring from other programs or 
degrees. Questions to you would involve --how did your undergrad 
training prepare you for the workplace?, what additional skills were 
needed?, which other disciplines did you draw upon?, and how did you 
obtain needed training/skills, etc.

Ideally, I'd like to provide names and e-mail addresses to individual 
students once they've chosen a practice area of interest.  To this end, 
we'll likely need volunteers from the following (and probably many 
other) areas of practice --
acute care setting, chronic care setting, home care, military, business, 
private consulting, private practice, education, research, community 
health, public health, industry, government, marketing boards, media, 
sports  nutrition, international nutrition, etc.

Please note that volunteering doesn't guarantee that someone will 
contact you.  It will depend upon the areas of interest of the students 
this year.  I've always had more volunteers than students, but this does 
give them a bit of a choice when I can provide them with backgrounds for 
a couple of people in the area the student has chosen to find out more 
about.

If you would be willing to participate in this exercise, please forward 
your name and practice area(s) to me. Any other background information 
you feel is relevant could also be enclosed.  Also, if you know of other 
people that might fit the bill, please let me know, so that I can 
contact them to see if they'd be willing to assist, too.

Thanks so much for your help.

Laurie Wadsworth
lwadswor at stfx.ca <mailto:lwadswor at stfx.ca>

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