Clinical Dietitian Resume Example

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Chloé Tremblay

Registered Dietitian, Renal & Diabetes
Food plans patients can actually live with.

Registered dietitian with 7 years in hospital and outpatient care, specialising in renal disease and type 2 diabetes. I manage a caseload of 120 haemodialysis patients, run group education in English and French, and helped lift the unit's phosphate target attainment from 48% to 71%.

Clinical experience

Clinical Dietitian, Nephrology
University Health Network — Toronto General Hospital · Toronto, ON
May 2020 – Present
120Dialysis caseload
71%Phosphate at target
−18%Malnutrition (SGA-C)
  • Assess and counsel 120 haemodialysis and peritoneal dialysis patients on potassium, phosphate and fluid targets
  • Designed a binder-timing education toolkit with pharmacy, adopted by 4 dialysis units
  • Cut severe malnutrition (SGA-C) on the unit by 18% with protein-energy screening at every quarterly review
Diabetes Educator & Dietitian
Diabetes Canada — Regional Education Centre · Mississauga, ON
Jun 2018 – Apr 2020
  • Ran 6-week group programmes for 340 adults; mean HbA1c fell 0.7 points at 6 months
  • Certified 50 patients in carbohydrate counting for insulin pump starts
  • Ran the centre's first virtual group programme, reaching 3 rural clinics and cutting no-shows from 24% to 9%
Dietetic Intern
McGill University Health Centre · Montréal, QC
Sep 2017 – May 2018
  • Clinical placements in ICU, oncology and paediatrics; built enteral feeding regimens for 60+ patients
  • Audited 220 tube-feeding orders against ASPEN guidance and presented the results at grand rounds
Nutrition Educator (part-time)
Moisson Montréal · Montréal, QC
Sep 2015 – Aug 2017
  • Delivered 60 cooking-on-a-budget workshops for families using the food bank
  • Rewrote 25 recipe cards in plain French and English at a grade-6 reading level

Selected projects

Ramadan diabetes clinic
Culturally adapted fasting plans co-designed with community imams; 140 patients, no hypoglycaemia admissions
Kidney-friendly recipe library
40 low-potassium, low-phosphate recipes from South Asian, Caribbean and Chinese home cooking, now used across 4 dialysis units

Publications & talks

  • Carbohydrate counting education in adults on insulin pumps: outcomes at one year — Canadian Journal of Dietetic Practice and Research, 2023
  • Malnutrition screening on admission: closing the gap — Dietitians of Canada National Conference, 2022

Summary example

Registered dietitian with [N] years in hospital and outpatient care, specialising in renal disease and type [N] diabetes. I manage a caseload of [N] haemodialysis patients, run group education in English and French, and helped lift the unit's phosphate target attainment from [X%] to [X%].

Example bullet points for a Clinical Dietitian

  • Assess and counsel [N] haemodialysis and peritoneal dialysis patients on potassium, phosphate and fluid targets
  • Designed a binder-timing education toolkit with pharmacy, adopted by [N] dialysis units
  • Cut severe malnutrition (SGA-C) on the unit by [X%] with protein-energy screening at every quarterly review
  • Ran [N]-week group programmes for [N] adults; mean HbA1c fell [N] points at [N] months
  • Certified [N] patients in carbohydrate counting for insulin pump starts
  • Ran the centre's first virtual group programme, reaching [N] rural clinics and cutting no-shows from [X%] to [X%]
  • Clinical placements in ICU, oncology and paediatrics; built enteral feeding regimens for [N]+ patients
  • Audited [N] tube-feeding orders against ASPEN guidance and presented the results at grand rounds

Replace the [brackets] with your own numbers and facts. Never claim results you didn't achieve.

Skills to include

  • Renal nutrition (KDOQI)
  • Diabetes & carb counting
  • Enteral & parenteral nutrition
  • Malnutrition screening (SGA)
  • Motivational interviewing
  • Group education
  • Epic
  • ESHA Food Processor

Tips for a Clinical Dietitian resume

  1. Put the hard requirements recruiters screen for in the top third: Renal nutrition (KDOQI), Diabetes & carb counting, Enteral & parenteral nutrition.
  2. List current credentials with the issuing body, e.g. Registered Dietitian (RD), Certified Diabetes Educator (CDE).
  3. Give every recent role at least one measured result — for example dialysis caseload.
  4. Match the job title in your headline to the posting where it is honest to do so.
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