From competent to proficient; nutrition education and counselling competency dilemmas experienced by Australian clinical dietitians in education of individuals

Nutrition and Dietetics

Volumn 65, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 84-89

  Cant, Robyn ^a,b   Aroni, Rosalie ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b NONE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Australia; Competency based education; Comunication; Continuing education; Counseling; Dietetics

Indexed keywords

EID: 40149102220     PISSN: 14466368     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1747-0080.2007.00190.x     Document Type: Article

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