Tuesday-Ohio Board of Dietetics

Name of Speaker: Kay Mavko, Executive Director
Name of Agency/Program: Ohio Board of Dietetics
Type of program and Funding: All funding are gathered through fees for members. ($60 unlimited permit, $24 one time permit.)
Purposes and Mission: The mission of the Ohio Board of Dietetics is to effectively protect the public by regulating the practice of dietetics through licensure, and by fairly and consistently enforcing the laws and rules governing nutritional practices.

Objectives of Dietetic Licensure include:

• provide working knowledge of Ohio dietitian licensure law.
• review requirements for licensure including limited permits, initial licenses, and license renewal
• review relevant exemptions
• review OBD enforecement and complaint handling.
  

Role of RDs: RDs act as promotors or resource for a law in consideration, etc.
Program Planning, Monitoring, Evaluation: They do not offer any special programs, but focus on laws and regulations for practicing dietetics or those who practice under "dietitian like" names. For monitoring and evaluation, they look at the feedback of a law/regulation and obverse how the behavior that the law/regulation is focused on has changed.

The lady spoke today has 14 years' work experience on this, she also has variety of practices. She told us how an individual could become dietition legally and provided FAQs about the dietitian licensure law in Ohio. Even though the topic of this class is not a classic nutrition program, I think it is really a good class and very important for all of us. Knowledge from this class could be regarded as a useful resource for us all the time if only we are aim to be a dietition in future.