During open enrollment, the VA St. Louis Health Care System Dietetic Internship will be accepting applications for their combined MS/DI program class of 2026-28.  We have affiliations with Texas Tech University, the University of Alabama, and the University of North Florida.  Each master’s program is online, fully asynchronous, affordable, and can be completed in less than two years.  Interns spend the first year of the program focusing on their graduate studies.  Then for the last 10 months of the program, they move to St. Louis to complete the supervised practice portion of the program while finishing their graduate studies and earning a stipend! Get paid for your internship with a $25,200 stipend! The VA St. Louis Health Care System (VASTLHCS) Dietetic Internship offers comprehensive administrative support, eliminating the need to find your own rotations, preceptors, or activities to meet competencies.

Our program highlights include:

• No application fee or tuition for the supervised practice portion.
• Increased job opportunities following the internship with priority hiring at VAs across the country.
• Comprehensive administrative support; interns do not need to find their own preceptors or rotation sites.
• 1:1 preceptor to intern rotation in all clinical rotations.
• Paid federal holidays, plus earned vacation and sick time.
• Multiple resources such as a VA issued laptop and lab coat to be used while in the program, dedicated workspace, and free online access to the eNCPT, Nutrition Care Manual, top quality medical journals, and other medical center library resources.