Didactic Program in Dietetics Handbook for Graduate Students

The University of Massachusetts Amherst’s Didactic Program in Dietetics is accredited by the Accreditation Council in Nutrition and Dietetics (ACEND) of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics (AND)

AND is located at 120 South Riverside Plaza, Suite 2190, Chicago, IL 60606-6995; 312-899-0040, (email: ACEND [at] eatright [dot] org)

Department of Nutrition
213 Chenoweth Lab
University of Massachusetts
100 Holdsworth Way
Amherst, MA 01003-9282

Phone: 413-545-0740
Fax: 413-545-1074
Website: umass.edu/sphhs/nutrition

Welcome to the Department of Nutrition at University of Massachusetts Amherst (UMass) Graduate DPD handbook. I hope you find it useful. This handbook is intended to provide the necessary information and guidelines for students interested in earning the DPD Verification Statement and RDN.

As graduate students pursuing the DPD you will receive the Verification Statement under the requirements of the undergraduate dietetics track with adjustments made for undergraduate courses that you do not take.

Although I do not teach you directly, I would like to meet with each of you during the course of your time at UMass to provide guidance on DPD requirements and applying to a Dietetic Internship.

Claire Norton, MS, RD
Director and Undergraduate Program Director
Didactic Program in Dietetics (DPD) cpnorton [at] nutrition [dot] umass [dot] edu (cpnorton[at]nutrition[dot]umass[dot]edu)

(413) 545-1077