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The Summer Internship Program has been an empowerment strategy to engage our international students during their summer holiday and facilitate student employability skill development, including problem-solving, communication, leadership skills, teamwork, digital skills and project management skills. The program runs annually for 5 weeks with 25-35 international students each year. At the start of the internship, the students are given a nutrition-related problem that requires them to draw on either their unique cultural knowledge or international-student-specific experience. Students reported to feel valued and recognised for who they are.
2021 Program
2021 Program
Problem the students worked on: A lack of reputable healthy eating resources specifically tailored for international students
What they did: The internship students worked together, cooked in the BASE kitchen, recorded the cooking process, visited supermarket, produced education videos and created a website of resources including recipes with cooking videos, shopping tips and snack ideas during stressful time as a student.
Students created this website: https://sites.google.com/monash.edu/internationalstudents-eat-well/home
2022 Virtual Program
2022 Virtual Program
Problem the students worked on: Nutrition and Dietetics international students are often confused and anxious about transition to work in Australia or upon returning home (Part 1)
What they did: The internship students interviewed 20 international alumni and collated stories into inspirational advice and tips as infographics, Prezi, video clips, etc. for fellow Nutrition and Dietetics international students.
Students created this website: https://sites.google.com/monash.edu/global-insights-to-success/home
2023 program
2023 program
Problem the students worked on: Nutrition and Dietetics international students are often confused and anxious about transition to work in Australia or upon returning home (Part 2)
What they did: The internship students collected information on 14 countries where Nutrition and Dietetics international students could be working upon graduation. They interviewed representatives from professional associations (some in-language), collated food culture stories, compared the different dietary guidelines and gathered advice on culturally tailoring from alumni. The information was put together in a country-specific format for fellow Nutrition and Dietetics international students.
Students contributed this website: https://sites.google.com/monash.edu/global-insights-to-success/home
Research presentation
Research presentation
Tammie shared the learning from designing and facilitating this culturally tailored internship program at the Health Professions Education Research Micro-Conference in 2023. Here is the recorded presentation (only 5min!).
Mini-internship - coming soon
Mini-internship - coming soon
A mini-internship program, open to students from the Bachelor of Nutritional Science program across all year levels, will run during the upcoming semester. Students will participate in a project that allows them to apply their classroom learning and showcase their cross-cultural strengths, and present their final products at the department’s student conference. Stay tuned for updates!
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