2024 Volume 1 Issue 5 Pages 55-63
To evaluate the potential use of competency scales related to dietitians as a monitoring tool for students, we conducted a study on changes in dietitian competency scales over time within the progression of the curriculum. A self-administered questionnaire was conducted on 167 second-year students enrolled in the Registered Dietitian Training Program during their second and third years. The total scores for all competencies were significantly high during the transition period from the second to the third year of the program when students were transitioning from basic to applied professional courses. This indicates that Dietitian Competency Scale scores improved as the curriculum progressed. These findings suggest the potential use of the scale as a comprehensive assessment tool for regularly monitoring the qualities and competencies students should acquire by the time they graduate.
