Verfied.

We knew we couldn't retire from interning without one final puppet show, this is dedicated to Dietetics Faculty, we love/appreciate/adore/respect you:



Plus, some of the interns submitted their top 10 (or 11) experiences during the internship:

Anne
1. Playing secret Santa at the Christmas party.
2. Assessing 15+ patients on each of my "staff relief" days.
3. Going to Apollo Burger after sitting in a cubicle without a lunch break for eight hours at the State Health Department when we didn't bring lunch because we couldn't bring ourselves to eat at "Grubbins".
4. Letting “someone” talk in my DM class... for a LONNNNNNG time.
5. Looking over the list of things we had to accomplish at UVRMC for the first time, and thinking "WOW, can I do all that?"
6. Spending time with the dietitian who my mother thinks highly of and therefore, was basically the reason I went into this field.
7. Teaching at the elderly site and having people tell me that eating certain foods, tomatoes, bread, etc causes arthritis, and the way to cure it is through shark cartilage supplements.
8. Having someone at WIC ask if Cheetos counted as an orange vegetable.
9. Performing lice checks on the kids at Headstart, and then giving the children stickers.
10. Thinking the junior girls were going to be bored on our "Day on Broadway" theme day.
11. Finding out we were going to do our taste test day without Sister Duncan.

Emily
1. Learning how to do DXA scans and begging people to let me practice on them
2. FNCE’s infamous/amazing/priceless/electrifying moment of capturing the “Past, Present, Future SDA/ADA” picture
3. FNCE: Eating with the Sisters at Cheesecake, “Sin Sunday” night, “Whip-It”, FNCE point system, sitting in the hotel hall with the girls, winning $100, walking around in the rain after FNCE, Miss FNCE pageant, watching Jessie Pavinlac dance to Black Eyed Peas.
4. My rotation with Heather Filipowicz – LOVED it.
5. PCMC’s pesto/mozzi/turkey sandwich every Tuesday
6. Sister Mitchell chewing me out for fork-mashing the communal desserts
7. Puppet shows. Learn, Do, Extrapolate. Mid-course evaluations.
8. Going through multiple packs of gum and having a mile-high stack of text books towering around me before my case studies
9. Opening up my case study Powerpoint in front of everyone and have everyone (including faculty) notice that my jump drive is named “E Kitty”
10. Mispronouncing words on purpose with Rebecca b/c we think we are so funny (and mature) “La-BOR-atory” and baked “zit-E”

Brianna
1. Listening to our 90th S song at least twice a day every day for four weeks
2. Running through the streets of Denver to make it back to the bus because all the interns were the last ones to get there.
3. Breaking all known records for sales of PenCourt Cold Plates on Theme Day!
4. Theme Day: A Day on Broadway. It was just an awesome day!
5. Having my first clinical note pass inspection of the RD at Primary’s without modification!
6. $4.00 lunches at Primary Childrens—I still miss those!
7. Nutrition Room Audits with Holly the Sanitation Hostetter. (“Who’s your charge nurse?!?”)
8. My case study on HLHS—it was a good one!
9. Friday class and field trips with all the interns—Always a good time!
10. Going through 130 eggs to perfect the Wickedly Wonderful Cream Puff!
11. Finding out that PenCourt makes no money in the Fall semester because they are feeding all of us interns!

Annie
1. Best. goal, ever. reached. Rebecca and Emily were present to win.
2. Falling off my chair three times in one day in Janelle's and my cubicle at the state health department
3. Trying to record the Dr. Fullmer-sound-alike-if-she-were-crude on my cell phone while giggling and pretending to walk by her cubicle naturally
4. "Having" to taste test the molten lava cakes... and then having to try them with the raspberry danish dessert... yummm
5. Selling the most desserts in (recent) pen court history!
6. Being a practice diabetic and whipping out my insulin pump when I needed to... especially in public...he he
7. While teaching a patient with heart disease some hearth healthy diet education, having him tell me that fruit smoothies were one of the fattiest things you could ever eat - even when it's made with just ice, fruit and yogurt. I didn't even know where to begin correcting that one :)
8. Having Dr. Nyland hand me the empty glass holder over the serving line in Pen Court for the twenty second time. Oh wait. I dreaded that...
9. Walking in a patient's room to give him and his wife a diabetic education, and walking out 30 minutes later full of advice about how to have a successful marriage
10. Receiving a $5 certificate + $2.25 dietary discount for lunch every day of our 2 weeks at LDS hospital... making it possible for me to get both lunch AND Nutty Guy's chocolate covered raisins!

Well... off we go to the real world. Hope we are ready because its TOO late now - the real world has BEGUN!

And then we were done... almost.

On Friday we said our goodbyes to Dr. Nyland, Sister Duncan, and Sister Mitchell (due to the fact they will not be present on our REAL last day). We all went to lunch at Gloria's Little Italy and reminisced about our glory days as interns. We are just finishing up our final week of rotations and have two case studies on Friday to wrap-up and obtain our verification forms. This too, has passed... almost.

State Health Department

Brianna and I were assigned to the State Health Department for 2 weeks and were involved with various projects. One of which was to prepare a webinar instructing employees about the New Food Policy... these are some action shots.

UDA!

The interns had the opportunity to attend the Utah Dietetic Association's Annual Conference this year. It was a great opportunity to meet new RDs, other dietetic students, and enjoy some great classes/snack breaks. The conference was in Ogden and so this required a very early departure for us... sacrifices bring forth the blessings right?! 3 of the 6 interns did win the random drawings (yes, ladies, on Friday I won some random restaurant tracking information... priceless, I know.) Brianna scored a beef basket that did include some steak knives among other treasures. Rebecca won something fabulous. It was also nice to see the Sisters Mitchell and Duncan and catch up with them.

Thursday was the BIG AWARDS ceremony where our very own, Anne Clawson Woodbury recieved UDA's Intern of the Year award. She is incredble and very deserving. Dr. Clawson came to the luncheon and experienced an extra special glimpse into the dietetic world. We are still designin/creating Anne's sash to wear to the rest of our Friday classes.

Friday was a fun day at UDA - I felt like there was an emphasis on public policy which was exciting. Friday was the exhibition day (it looked really small compared to the expo at FNCE).

Overall, we are all professionally enriched and can't wait for another year!

IMC is fabulous.

These are some of the best RDs I have ever met. My clinical rotation was excellent and I had the opportunity to learn a lot from my preceptors!

Pizza, pizza, pizza

Annie needed a ride home from her rotation on Thursday so Brianna and I went to pick her up after our rotation ended. We got there just in time for a pizza demo by a chef that had trained in Italy. The entire FNS department at LDS Hospital was invited to the demonstration and each of us got to make our own pizza! We made a wheat crust and used a spinach cream sauce. It was a blast and a great team building experience for the department. Please note Janelle's look of determination as she attempts to throw her dough.

Field Trips... do a body good.

This week we went on 2 field trips!

Tuesday:
On Tuesday we went with Sister McGuire to the Davis County School District central kitchen. It was AMAZING to see the massive equipment and unique production system that they have developed. They also fed us a fabulous lunch. Then we went to Huntsman Cancer and met with the outpatient dietitian that gave us a tour. The facility was incredibly classy and it was an interesting job to learn about. Finally we made our way to the U and heard from a research nutritionist. She was very informative about that career path and Annie may have found her niche.

Thursday:
Dr. Nyland and Sister Mitchell went with us to SYSCO to tour the facility and have lunch. Dick and Rob were nice enough to give us an in depth tour and answer all of our questions about the system they have. We were exposed to beef selection methods and are well prepared to purchase quality BEEF. We also consumed large quantities of fried Asian treats for lunch and followed that up with some tasty cheesecake bites. Our final stop was to the U to see their new kitchen, cafeteria, and patient service system. We were all highly impressed with the new facility and grateful for the tour.

Legislature Day

That episode of School House Rock came to live for all of the interns yesterday when we all went to UDA Legislative Day. We are now fully aware of how a bill becomes a law. We spent the morning speaking with members of the legislature and doing health screenings on them. Some of us went with the UDA lobbyist, Candice and her intern, Brock to speak with representatives. It was fun to speak with them about how we are trying to change our certification renewal process.... just paving the way to licensure :) There was an exciting energy at the Capitol building. We had great opportunities for networking with other dietitians and students. Special recognition goes to the one undergraduate that participated: Shannan Brooks.

Of course... we had to do lunch afterward:

Goal: Empathy and Awareness.

In the BYU Dietetic Internship, we have an assignment that is designed to help us develop empathy and awareness of the reality of intensive insulin therapy. In our undergraduate curriculum, we were required to count our carbohydrate exchanges and maintain the numbers in an appropriate range... what we are doing now has been taken to a all new level! For the next three days, we are wearing insulin pumps (using saline instead of insulin) and we are checking our blood glucose at least four times a day. We were given arbitrary numbers for our basal insulin to be set at and then we have to count our carbohydrates and give ourselves bolus insulin as needed throughout the day. We had fabulous guest Diabetes Educators (a RN and RD) come and teach us what we need to know for this experience! We all had to select sites for our pumps to be inserted and we are all becoming accustomed to pricking our own fingers. Wish us luck...

Birthday!!!!!!

The adventures continue... we had our first class on Friday and Anne was lucky enough to have her birthday on the same day so we all fronted some special birthday hats in her honor. All of us are doing our own rotations - Annie/Janelle are doing community with the health department and WIC, Anne is saving lives at McKay D, Rebecca is at IMC doing the same. Emily and Brianna are at Primary Childrens doing adminstrative projects. We are all pretty happy... life is good.