Athens, Ga. (October 4, 2023)— Piedmont Athens Regional recently welcomed nine clinical nutrition students from Bolivia’s Universidad Evangelica Boliviana exchange and study abroad program to learn about clinical nutrition best practices in the United States. The two-week program with the University of Georgia Departments of Nutritional Sciences provided students with hands-on experience with didactic and educational portions of the program completed during their first week, followed by a week at Piedmont Athens Regional observing clinical staff and patient care.

At Piedmont Athens Regional, the students participated in various nutrition-related in-services in areas such as dysphagia/speech language pathology, diabetes education, maternal and child nutrition focused on NICU, pediatrics, and lactation education, and also learned about feeding tubes, feeding pumps, nutritional supplements, TPN, and the Enfit system. Students shadowed a number of bedside providers, including speech-language pathologists, patient nutrition and food services professionals, clinical dieticians, and diabetes educators.

Piedmont Athens Regional is proud to support the advancement of medicine around the world, creating real change in healthcare both at home and abroad, and is proud to serve as an educational site for hundreds of medical students from the Augusta University/University of Georgia Medical Partnership.