We provide nutrition services in three Family Medicine Dr. offices, as well as at the SUNY Stony Brook College Campus. The diverse populati on this rotation provides is plentiful. The food service rotation provides interns with knowledge on the protocols of management and the kitchen function. Procurement and receiving measures are reviewed and observed. Each task in the kitchen and diet office is o bserved during this experience.
Special attention is directed to the therapeutic components of the hospital diets.
All interns rotate through Cornell Cooperative Extension of Suffolk County, New York. Cornell Cooperative Extension is a government funded program with a goal of providing nutrition knowledge to the public. Lower socioecon omic areas are targeted, and nutrition education plans are then implemented. Students will also have opportunities to write and implement grants. Interns will play an integral part in the care plan meetings of patients.